In 3DMA, students are taking their artistic skills to new heights. Throughout the four quarters, students have been sketching assigned characters and concepts. 

For 3DMA teacher Demas Lamas, it’s been a process of growth and one that he finds exciting especially when students say they’re not good at something like drawing. 

“Maybe you’re a low skill level, but that doesn’t mean that with more experience and time, you can really move that and move it into something that you can be like wow, because we start with recognizability then we move or to shading, precision, ratios and stuff like that,” Lamas said. “It’s really exciting when someone says I can’t do this, this is something I can’t do. It’s not a can or can’t, it’s at what level so when those people are able to do something that they didn’t think they could do that’s really great for me as a teacher.”

Students find this helpful practice for the 3D modeling aspect of the class. 

“We have to choose like 12 out of 22 sketches that we draw in our notebook, in class we’re making a pond simulation,” freshman Sana Mustaq Basha said. “Overall we’re just learning to model and stuff before we go into more depth.”