December Meeting: Sculptris

On Monday, we ate lots of pizza, drew some funny (real and imagined) scenes from The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, and then, using a very cool, free, 3D modeling program called Sculptris, pretended we were students at the Magisterium with magical elemental abilities. It's hard to capture the program by just looking at the finished two-dimensional designs, but Sculptris basically provides you with a lump of virtual clay (you can start with either a sphere or a plane) and then you can manipulate it in a variety of ways. It definitely requires some patience and time as you play around with the different buttons and get used to the shortcut keys, and it would be even more fun if you used it on a tablet or a computer with touchscreen capabilities because then you could pull and push as if you're really sculpting clay, but the Bookshoppers took to the program surprisingly quickly and made some awesome designs. Enjoy some pictures and videos of the process as well as the finished designs below!

             

BirdyBird by Amy

Mad Cat by Amy

Bird by Avery

Dog by Avery

Untitled by Carson

Untitled by Chris

Head of Extreme Untimely Death by Gabriel

Medusa by Gabriel

Untitled by Isaac 

Untitled by Isaac

Untitled by Julia

Untitled by Arsalan

Our next meeting will be on Monday, January 29th. We will be discussing When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead and designing new book covers with Canva. The book club books I distributed on Monday are covered with brown paper in the hopes that Bookshoppers won't be influenced in their designs by the current cover. If you do return the book before the meeting, please remove the brown paper before returning it so as not to confuse any other library staff. But don't peek at the cover!