WHAT I'M LEARNING
I think a creative professional (or anyone really?) should always be learning more skills and tricks, and here are the things I'm currently trying to wrap my head around to add to my arsenal.
GAME DEVELOPMENT
As a teacher I found that there was a real lack of good educational games, especially for grades 3-6. I'd love to spend some of my spare time trying to rectify that. After doing some educational consulting work for an online STEM program, I realized that game development was something I had a lot of interest in. I also really believed I could wrap my head around it, and I have! During the pandemic I enrolled in Game Development classes at Bunker Hill Community College. I have also worked in Elementary STEM specifically teaching students the basics of game development and guiding them through the game creation process.
3D Modelling
I am trained in the basics of Maya and Blender, with a preference for Blender. I continue to learn and expand my abilities in my spare time, and have taught the basic concepts of 3d modelling to many at the HATCH Makerspace in Watertown, where Blender is one of the tools we use to produce 3D-Models from scratch.Â