Katelyn Popp
From MHCGraphics
[edit] About Me
I am a first-year at MHC who's thinking about majoring in English... I enjoy art and anthropology and just humanities in general. I'm also a big fan of foreign languages. I learned Spanish for five years, but am now learning Chinese.
[edit] Where I'm From
My hometown is actually the home of Friendly's Ice Cream Corporation. I worked for a Friendly's restaurant last summer, but it's not my favorite... that's probably why. My favorite would have to be the Steaming Tender in Palmer, MA. It's styled as a train station set up along a running train track so customers can watch the trains go by as they eat.
[edit] Labs
So this is my first lab: a street scene. It looks like it belongs in a cartoon. In this one, nothing really connects, the road is floating in front of and below the houses... the grass is floating below that. If I moved the camera, this would look really strange... even more so than the fact that the sun casts a shadow on itself... oops.
Lab #3: Working with Custom Objects I really liked playing with the lighting and colors in this one. I tried to fit a light inside the jet area of the rocketship, but the materials were opaque and I didn't know enough to get it to show through, other than casting some strange shapes of red light on the surrounding planets. The blue lighting and the craters are my favorite parts.
Lab #4: Above: Marble made from custom materials and colors. Below: Realistic Model. The MHC art museum is hosting an exhibit by the realist painter Janet Fish who is known for her work with the way light travels through glass. The Into the Light Exhibit contains many of her signature pieces and I went to see it around the same time we learned about colored lighting, refraction, reflection, and differences. SO, my goal was to try to make a Janet-Fish-esque scene with cut glasses and many colored lights. I had difficulty with a billboard, but I would like to place these on a window sill with a city scene behind them in sort of the same way as Janet did with my favorite painting of hers.
Lab #5: Surprise! These first two pictures show how I took advantage of the overlapping that happens with Mead when two objects intersect at the same spot. It made the toast look actually toasted. But, once I changed the camera angle the overlapping wouldn't show anymore so I changed my idea....
In this next photo, the toast is being put into the toaster...
Actually, it's popping out of the toaster! Burnt on one side and raw on the other!
Lab #6: Replication I've been thinking of doing an ice cream shop for my final and so I have spent this lab playing with random generation, with sprinkles in particular. There isn't a scene for these and there are a bunch of them, but all of these sprinkles will be on display on the ice cream shop's counter in glass jars or something...So far, I've made rainbow sprinkles (cylinders with spheres at both ends), different-colored sugar crystals (cubes), and nonpareils (spheres):
Lab #7: Beziers and Animation In prep for my final project, I have used beziers to construct an ice cream cone structure and multiAdd to give it the cross pattern of an ice cream cone.
FOG! and a successful surface image! finally..
FINAL LAB!:
