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50 Things I Learned This Year.
1. How to use the Rotate command properly.
2. How to animate different parts of my objects simultaneously.
3. How to duplicate different items.
4. How to extrude surfaces and curves.
5. How to twist and bend objects to the exact size and shape I want them.
6. How to make certain objects move along either a straight or curved path.
7. How to render objects to the exact color, transparency, and glossiness I want them.
8. How to put decals on objects.
9. How to find the dimensions of an object, if I forget.
10. How to mirror, or reflect, objects over a preset line to get them the way I want them to look.
11. How to make a movie on Windows Movie Maker.
12. How to add words, titles, and credits to my movies.
13. How to put my animations into the movies.
14. How to put pictures into the movies.
15. How to put music, or any kind of sound, into the movie.
16. How to save that movie as a movie file so I can put it in a PowerPoint.
17. How to animate slides on a PowerPoint.
18. How to animate the transition between slides.
19. How to put movie files and/or animations into a PowerPoint.
20. How to put pictures in a PowerPoint.
21. How to capture an image from one of the 4 main Rhino viewpoints.
22. How to render an animation.
23. How to add extra tick marks to the timeline.
24. How to manipulate objects so they move correctly when animated.
25. That you need to render all of your objects before you animate them.
26. How to array multiple objects around a central point.
27. How to make almost any shape I want.
28. That in order to render an animation you need to be patient because it takes forever.
29. How to start a website on Weebly.
30. How to put pictures on Weebly.
31. How to put videos on Weebly.
32. That Weebly doesn’t like to cooperate when you try to change to font, color, and size of your writing.
33. That sometimes Weebly doesn’t cooperate when you’re trying to put pictures on either, so you have to X out and restart it again.
34. It’s difficult to get work done when it’s 400 degrees in the building.
35. It is also difficult to get work done when it’s negative 400 degrees.
36. Bongo doesn’t cooperate when you’ve already animated one object as a whole, and then you try to animate the different parts of the object.
37. How to make objects move along a preset path of any shape.
38. How to pipe a circle.
39. How to cap an open ended object.
40. How to extrude surfaces.
41. How to extrude curves.
42. How to turn the control points on so you can manipulate every aspect of your object.
43. That dolphins are actually a lot harder to make that you realize.
44. That making a pencil write your name is a lot harder than it looks, but a lot more fun as well.
45. That making a Rube Goldberg Machine is way too much work for 30 seconds of animation.
46. That especially making the dominoes fall down at the exact right moment, and make them keep falling once they hit the next one is too much to think about all at once.
47. That I put way too many dominoes in my Rube Goldberg Machine; it took me 3 classes to animate them all.
48. That listening to music helps me work faster and more efficiently, but the school won’t let us so my work effort decreased a little in the second half of the year.
49. That the clocks on all of the computers are 6 minutes fast, so everyone “finishes” working with about 10 extra minutes of class.
50. That Mr. Croke is a very good teacher when it comes to Rhino.