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The first batch of clock tower homeworks are now on display on the home page of our main site.  There’ll be more soon.

Clock Tower by Lucy Jack

Many pupils have expressed interest in downloading and installing the free version of IDX Renditioner, to improve their renderings, so we’ll be emailing the instructions out to them soon.

Link to our main site.

From 17th to 21st September, thirteen of our seniors visited London, accompanied by Mrs Smyth and myself.

Group photo at St. Paul's

We based ourselves at the Youth Hostel Association’s Thameside hostel, taking the Jubilee tube line in to town each day.  On the itinerary were museums and galleries, along with lots of more recreational destinations.  Mrs Smyth established a blog for the trip, and there are many photos posted there.  It’s at -

http://gangstapanda.posterous.com

This session, pupils in our S2 classes are creating CAD 3D models in Pro/Engineer, and uploading them to www.shapeways.com to be manufactured using the 3D printing process.

We recently received our first batch of 3D printing from Shapeways.  Photos and renderings of the products are now available to view in a gallery at http://jimblack.jalbum.net/3d_print_gallery/

Recently, Blendernation featured a story about Urangan State High School, in Queensland, Australia.  Pupils at the school are creating a short film that includes live action and animation.  The animation and 3D modelling is being done in Blender, the open source package that we use in school.

The project is around a year in to an eighteen month programme and has attracted around $50,000 funding.  Several professional artists have become involved as tutors and mentors.

This superb 3D model of a dodgem car is just one of many renderings posted on the project’s site.  It was apparently created by a fourteen year old fellow.