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You might have seen a 3D printer, but have you ever created your own 3D model? In this class, students develop their spatial and artistic abilities while using modern tools to create printer-ready 3D models. Kids learn modeling by starting with a base mesh, and finish with a fully realized sculpture. Our instructor then prints 3D models at our home studio in Lexington, and brings the models back to the kids before the session is complete.
 

About Empow Studios:
Empow Studios brings technology, arts, and play together to help young learners discover and build on their creative talents. It’s a well-known belief that the need for specialized skills in technology and computer science are ever-growing. Our goal is to empower kids to create projects that they are proud to share with family & friends. Whether that's designing, building, coding, or a combination of all three, every kid should have the opportunity to learn the empowering tools within digital art, computer science, and engineering, which can potentially spark interests for future ambitions in STEM.

What do you want to MAKE today?

About the Instructor Martin McDonald:
Martin is a professional digital artist with experience working on video games, TV shows and film. He primarily focuses in character animation in both 2D and 3D. He graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a degree in Animation and is a Massachusetts Licensed Teacher in Visual Arts. He finds great joy in learning all he can and teaching others all they want to know to help them better turn their dreams into reality. He has an entire library of random bits of interesting information from a wide variety of different subjects, such as History, Science, Math and Linguistics.

Goals and Objectives
  • Get Familiar with 3D space and become familiar with modeling techniques
  • Understand the restrictions of 3D printing: strength involved with layer direction
  • Printer resolution and how it affects your work
  • Learn and practice mesh editing: manipulating vertices, edges and polygons, extrude, loop cut, fill polygon, material, light, Render

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