I have always been a fan of old school toys and games, and the etch a sketch was one of my favorites. I am not sure why, because I could never get the thing to draw what I wanted, but it was fun trying. The software that I use to make my artwork these days is a lot more sophisticated and easy to use. So since I love the old and the new, I have decided to do some 3D art, where I am attempting to blend old school technology with today's technology. So in this animation I am combining etch a sketch and HIVE.
The first thing I had to do was to download a picture of a real etch A Sketch. I put the picture into a free windows program that comes with windows 10 called 3d builder, which allowed me to make the picture into a 3d model.
Once I made the 3D model I brought it into my 3d software program that I used to make this project, the Program is called Poser12, and you can check it out here
Then I added a new red texture to the model (which shows up grey in the unrendered scene) And then I added two cylinder props for the control knobs.
When I added the new red texture it erased the logo on the original model, so I made a 3d model of a different etch a sketch logo.
After that, I added a flat screen prop so I can show the Hive animation on it.
I shrunk the logo down and put it in place, then I put the video screen into place, only thing left now is to make the video.
This part was easy, because my 3d software has a sketch mode built in, so all I had to do was put the words in, and do a quick sketch animation to make it all work.
Then I got it all together, The only problem that I ran into was the long time it took to render the scene, because every time I thought I had it just right, I would discover another problem. In other words, the first renders I made looked a little sketchy lol. I also made a NFT out of this, the NFT includes the original HD MP4 video in 1200x800 resolution, the cost is 15 hive and you can get it HERE
