Roland's Cube

How to make the pumpkin: Select sphere and bring into plane. Toogle stack OFF. Bring in several more spheres and merge them in a circular shape to make the pumpkin. Turn stack ON and select a cylinder moving it onto the center top of pumpkin. Position the stem (cylinder) where you want by selecting Move tool and using lift. Color pumpkin and stem.

This scene can be done for early grade language arts (P is for Pumpkin) lessons.

If you want a really cool pumpkin, put eyes on it (use a dome or sphere and scale to size. Teeth can be pyramids scaled and stacked up or down. For at Witch's hat, use the cone and a flattened sphere (use the stretch function in the Move tool to flatten). Position flattened sphere on top of pumpkin and then stack cone on top of that.

I didn't put the teeth in this one, but you can. Download a free demo from the GollyGee Software website and have fun. Happy Halloween!!

Posted by Roland Blocksom at 10:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

It's been a while since I added a picture to the blog. This one is particularly interesting. The stars are made from pyramids and cubes. The construction is simple. Start with a cube and stack pyramids on all the sides. This gives the viewer the perception that the star is coming through the cube (which it is actually not doing). Add the sky texture to the ground plane and the space texture to the back plane and Hoila! a space scene.

Things still tough here at GollyGee Software. With the economy in the pits, we aren't seeing many orders out of the educational community.

Posted by Roland Blocksom at 12:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)