Week 6 - Starting the Group Project

Having spent the last 5 weeks working individually on modelling our own heads, the next 6 weeks will be devoted to group work. We will be constructing a model of a steam engine from the Museum of Power in Langford, Maldon.

As a group, we visited the Museum in Week 3 and chose one of the engines in the exhibition. The next stage was to present the idea to the rest of the class and lecturer for approval. A short PowerPoint presentation was shown, highlighting which engine we had chosen to model, what it was originally used for and how the team was to be divided up and work on each part. The presentation was received rather well with positive comments and a couple of suggestions. We were also advised to ensure we knew what measurement we were working in. One suggestion was to include a character in the animation but we decided against this as a group as we felt it may be too much work to complete in such a short space of time.

With our project approved, we set off for our first team meeting to decide our plan of action for the following six weeks!