This week I bore witness to the annual student-written Christmas play festival thingie at my school. One of the offerings at this event was a play called Superhero Santa, by one Phil Baur. This play was perhaps the most honest and faithful presentation of the Santa mythos ever (if you don't know where the Santa myth came from, might I suggest
a refresher course?). In the play, an ordinary man named
Scott takes on the persona of Santa, calls himself a superhero, and brings Christmas to children who's families are too poor to afford Christmas presents. He then challenges the other two main characters of the play (and the audience) to do the same. I can't possibly do the play justice in words, but I would love to make an animated version of it in the future (maybe next Christmas?). If you were among the fortunate few to have seen this play, or even if you weren't, I strongly encourage you to spread both the true meaning of Santa and of Christmas by donating a
Christmas present to a child in need and becoming someone's personal superhero.
All this talk of superheroes reminds me; I finished my first human model in Maya this week. He is a superhero (see how this ties into the first paragraph so well?), his name is Zenyth, and he looks something like this:
I also previously made a robot for him to do battle with. Its name is XLCR-01. It looks like this:
These were my first outings into the world of 3D modelling, so I know there's a lot I can improve on. Overall I'm happy with how they turned out, though, but I do need to put in a not black background.
