Using 3D software to pimp up learning content
Date: Monday October 8, 2007Posted in: assets, courseware
I gave a try to Poser today, toke me about an hour to create these 3 versions of a character.
Don’t be impressed, that’s one of the characters provided with the app. To get there what you do is choose a figure from a menu, choose some haircut from a menu, choose some face expression in a menu, then choose some pose in a menu. Poser is a heft price tag, not really affordable for the hobbyist.
Other products exist in a cheaper range. Take Sketchup, for instance. 3D scenes with the possibility to drop in 3D static characters. 100% free for education!
If you don’t have an artisic drive, no worries. You can find a repository of free 3D content at the 3D warehouse. Alternatively, you can find professional 2D and 3D content at websites like content paradise or turbosquid.
There is a brand new industry that has emerged that tries to give hobbyists like me the tools and assets to produce impressive content without me having to follow a 3 year training in design. So they claim, at least. For my part, I found most useful to read books that explains basic principles of design and composition.
What could be interesting is if services where created like rent a coder that would let you develop learning content on the cheap. Rent a graphic designer to produce four to ten 3D avatar that you are then free to re-arrange the way you like, in infinite number of poses. Rent a learning designer to give you feedback on the (educational) quality of the learning content you have designed. Rent a creative writer to create a story to offer the common elements of a set of lessons. I dunno. I am curious to see if that kind of services, targeted to an education market will appear and how long it will take.
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