AOIT Art Meets 123D Creature

The AOIT Art class spent a little time learning the iPad app 123D Creature this week. It's a fun, 3D program that lets the user manipulate virtual clay and form it into anything they like.  Once the v-clay is molded, if can be sculpted and then painted using any textures the user can find.

 If you're interested in learning a bit about 123D Creature, check out this tutorial that give a pretty nice overview. in the meantime, here are a few of today's creatures...

123D Creature

The Computer Art class took the day and went to the Media Center to check out the new 3d iPad app called 123D Creature. This program is a little tricky to get used to. 

First, you pull and shape you creature.. then you bake and sculpt your creature, then you paint and add texture to your creature and finally you can position and photo your creature.. 

So lesson learned, you could probably spend more than a day working with this app.

Color Sketches in Sketchbook Pro on iPad

Next week we will be creating acrylic paintings on canvas. In preparation for the paintings, I thought it might be fun to start the project be creating color sketches in Sketchbook Pro on the iPad.

 Each students created a line drawing using pencil in their sketchbooks. Next, used the cameras on the iPads to take pictures of these sketches. Then we imported the pictures into Sketchbook Pro.

Now we have a color sketch of what we want our acrylic paintings to look like. Nice!

Oh, So We Have iPads Do We?

So, Apex HS just bought a class set of iPads for students to use and yes, I do plan to incorporate these devices into my lessons.

So, I'm trying to find a decent drawing program on the ipad. So far I've downloaded Layers, Sketchbook Pro and 123D Sculpt, a 3D program. All I've messed with is Layers. 

What I like about layers is how simple it is. It has a brush, an eraser and a smudgy finger. That and of course, layers. I'll probably start my classes off learning this program because of how simple and basic it is. 

To start, I just wanted to sketch in layers,... try out different brushes and stuff but without any real concern for the image. Then I wanted to take that first image and see if I could make it a little more 3dish. 

Now I need to move on and try Sketchbook Pro. It's got a lot more options. Then onto the real 3D world 123D Sculpt. how very exciting, yes I know!

Already looking forward next year!