Day 3 - April 6th 2009

Today we handed in our conceptual sketch, we also started drawing our technical drawings by hand. Alexa is drawing the orthographic layout and Emily is drawing the isometric drawing. We realized as we were trying to configure the layout of the machines that the crank was positioned way to high. We had originally planned gears between the crank and the axle to initialize the rotations, but we decided that it would be much easier to just attach the crank directly to the axle and cut out a whole step in between. For homework, Alexa will finish her drawing, and Emily will finish hers as well. 

While doing some reaseach and the technical drawings, we figured out the perfect way to make the characters come all the way into sight through the windows then drop completely out of the picture was to use a "snail drop" cam. (http://www.technologystudent.com/cams/snail1.htm)