Alright, I’m halfway through my summer break and I thought it would be a good time to recap all the events that have happened so far. From what I have done, to what I still need to do, and what else I want to do.
First, what have I done so far? To be honest, I haven’t completed anything I would call a goal. However, I have made I like to call milestones in areas of interest. For example, there is my Blender progress. I’m still working on my scene of mine. You know, the donut, mug, and vase. I still have to add in particles and other small things, but through the experience, I have learned a lot of things. I’ll admit I have been moving really slowly over the past week with Blender progress. However, that’s because I want to hone my extruding skills in particular. Right now I’m not so much focused on the final goal, but rather the journey that will teach me how to apply the skill I’ve learned. Anyone who can follow the tutorial will make a donut, but it’s the skills that really matter because those will allow you to create what you really want. That’s what I have realized over the course of my time with the program, this especially holds true for my final goal. When I started learning about this program, I stetted out with the final goal of creating an anime-styled 3d animation. When I look on youtube I can find tutorials, but I want to create something I can call my own. To do that, I need to know the basics first. Especially extruding, like I said before, which is a skill I will likely use a lot.
Besides blender, I have also been working on my math skills. Ever since the last week of grade 10, I have had a math tutor in the hopes of raising my math skills. So far, I’ve honed what I’ve learned in grade 10, and am now working on grade 11 concepts. Right now I’m working on something called domain and range, which is like all the X and Y points in a given function. So far, I have been able to understand the concepts fairly well. However, from what I’ve heard the first three chapters in the textbook are fairly easy and every just gets harder after that. Still, I’m happy I have improved even if it’s just slightly. Just like Blender, I have started to ask my tutor more questions so I have a solid understanding. I did do this a bit during the final two units of math and I did do better, but too little too late.
Finally, the last project I have made considerable progress on is the photography one. I’ve finished taking all the photos and I’m putting them into the pages. During the first week of the project, I did encounter a few problems. For example how long it will take to faithfully recreate all the position of the photos. Besides being very time consuming, the photo’s would be way too small. An example of this is the first page. Like the original I had been given, I put in five photos onto the one page. After I did this you could barely see the four corner pictures with zooming in. Now, I’ve just opted for putting one to three photos per page, all in order of course. This will hopefully make it easier to see the pictures and keep the photos on the same page in the originals relatively together. Since then, I have made a lot of progress. Granted things are still moving slowly but they are moving.
Overall, since the start of the summer, a lot of things have happened. I still haven’t reached the goals I’ve set out to complete, but with each milestone, I feel like I’m getting closer. Every now and again I feel like I never will reach my goal, but during times like these, I like to remind myself of what I have completed so far. Maybe the next time I write a blog like this I may have made more progress, only time will tell.