Lego Animation (With Video)

Today at Enrich we did passion time for about an hour it was fun and I added effects to my lego animations, which gladly I can now present on the blog!

It took me a couple of weeks to make all of these and I have added my 3 best ones together, the first one is at 10 frames per second making it a little choppy the other ones are at 5 or 3 frames per second making it look smoother.

My first one is about a wild sea lion who is this randoms guys pet who comes and collects him. The other two you will need to watch to see them!

Type without looking?

Today at Enrich we did a letter typing game, except the only catch was that we had to do it without looking. I was quite good at it! I found it quite hard, even right now as I am typing this I am not looking (just for practice).

The words we had to type weren't actually words but random letters containing the letters asdf, they were simple and quite easy for me but I could not type as fast as I would normally with looking. But typing without looking at what you are doing makes you not realize mistakes that you make during this but I still need to look for caps lock and commas and the rest which is bit hard to find without looking.

Overall I found it most enjoyable but frustrating when it would not type because I forgot a space!

Animations

Today at Enrich Caleb and I made Lego animations, we each took turns doing our own idea and we managed to make two in the end. My one was about a car going fast with criminals and crashing into a brick wall....

Caleb's one was about a truck going past and dumping a hungry shark, which then later a lego mini-figure comes along and gets eaten in one bite, then his head rolls quietly across the ground....

Also with my one when the wall falls down from the crash of the car, a guy is with a trophy and another guy lands in the trophy, so he is upside down!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Picture of the guy flying over the wall....

Wilson game

Today at Enrich we did a Wilson game, the Wilson game we did was called "All or nothing" the objective of the game is to get the beanbag into a basket, located in a hoop.There were four hoops. If you got the beanbag in the basket you would move it to the next hoop and you would have to throw it to the next person, if they didn't catch the ball you would have to put the beanbag and the basket right back at the beginning!

My team didn't win, but we would have won on points! We did three rounds and we would have won all of them if it was for points but we never managed to get the ball all the way to the last and throw it back and catch it....

Digital Animations

Today at Enrich I did a digital animation, although it seemed very hard and complicated to achieve. 

First the program I used was called Blender. Blender is 3D software that can make and model 3D objects. Examples are heads, people, lego, plus millions more.

Since this was my second time ever using the awesome programme Blender, I didn't get very far although I have managed to make a small animation.The animation is a couple of shapes that glide around, sadly it would appear that it is impossible to post it on this blog....

Chess Master Vs Master!

Today At Enrich I played an exciting and fierce game with AJ, one of the students at Enrich.

First I lost my Queen, then I decided I would not be beaten so I then did a couple of very tricky moves with my two knights that managed to knock his queen right off the chess board.

After that, the loud music came on so we decided to cancel the game since it was looking as it would end up as a stale mate.I had My king, two pawns and a knight left and AJ had his king and 3 pawns.

Also today at Enrich we had a garden expert come in and talk with the people who are doing the garden for their environment project  at Wachner Place. The garden expert's name is Bruce. Together we planned out what plants we are going to use, and how we are going to arrange them. We are planning to plant roses, dwarf yellow and purple flax bushes too.

Chess

Today at Enrich we played chess like we normally do each week we come. Today I played against Reid and Luca.

I played Reid once and Luca twice. The reason I played Luca twice is because he wanted a rematch since the first game went quickly and not so good for him. 

Out of the 3 games I played I won all of them! I was white against Reid and black against Luca in the first match and then white in the second match.

On the leader-board I am the 9th highest out of around 30 kids! Luca is one below me and Reid is a couple below him. I had a excellent day.