Week 6 Updates: Exercise + Starting Mid-term

This past week, I started working on a scene for class 6's exercise, which will also eventually turn into my midterm. I used the bouncing ball tutorial as well as the fruit bowl tutorial to help me accomplish some of the things I wanted to do. For example, I went back to the tutorials to help me add a spotlight to focus only on the objects in the scene, and also used them to help me assign different colors and texture to different objects. The scene is essentially just a pond with 4 lily pads scattered throughout it as of right now, but the end goal is to add a shape that resembles a frog and have the frog hop across each lily pad, and end with it hopping off the screen. I've just been working on setting up the scene, positioning the spotlight correctly, and playing around with the shading so far. I still need to figure out how to attach a photo of a frog to the black sphere in the picture below, like we did in the bouncing ball tutorial. I followed the exact same steps from the tutorial but it got messed up in the process, so next I'm going to go back through the process and fix it so that there's a frog face on the ball. Then, by the midterm, I plan to animate the frog as well to make it jump across the lily pads if I have time.



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