// Block 9 of 10 · 21–23 sessions
The final project and your portfolio page
One finished, well-documented project — and a page you can proudly show outside the club.
- Duration
- 2–3 sessions · ~2 h each
- Checkpoint
- A published portfolio page: a GLB model, screenshots of the journey and a short description.
- Challenge
- Prepare and rehearse a live talk for demo day (1–2 minutes).
#The idea of the block
The end of the year should give you something more concrete than a “show in a session”: a portfolio page you can show outside the club — to parents, a college or university admissions committee, a future employer. One of the year’s projects (most often the flagship object from block 5, already animated and shown in AR) is brought to a presentable state and laid out on your own page of the club’s site (GitHub Pages): a GLB model through model-viewer, screenshots of the intermediate checkpoints, a short description of the path from silhouette to finished result.
This block is deliberately open: the number of sessions is flexible (roughly 2–3), and the pace and content depend on where you have got to by the end of the year. There are no new tools.
#Session 21 — choosing a project and final polish
First say which project of the year will be the basis of the page and one thing you want to improve in it. Then an open workshop: refine the chosen project with the whole toolkit of the year (detailing, color, topology, rig). At the end, note down: do you already have a GLB export (block 7) and an AR page (block 8)? If so, it’s a ready foundation and only the layout remains; if not, that is the priority for the next session.
#Session 22 — the portfolio page
The structure of a good page:
- the project’s title;
- a GLB model through
<model-viewer>(the same as in block 8); - 3–4 screenshots of the journey: silhouette → details → color → final (this is where
_step1.blend,_step2.blend… come in handy); - a short description: what the project is, the hardest part, what you learned.
Take the AR showcase template as your base: drop in the model, add screenshots and text.
#Session 23 — the public showcase / demo day
The end of the year is a showcase of projects wider than a single session: parents, other clubs, the college administration. Everyone presents their portfolio page and, if they wish, shows the AR version of the model live on a phone. If there is a final 3D-printed model, it stands next to the screen as a third way to see the same work.
#Common problems
| Problem | Why it happened | The fix |
|---|---|---|
| The portfolio page looks empty or unconvincing | Only the final result is shown, without the path to it | Add 3–4 screenshots from the intermediate _step*.blend files: the path is what the reader finds most interesting |
| The project description sounds abstract (“made a cool model”) | It was written at the last moment, with no specifics | Answer three questions in writing: what it is, the hardest part, what you learned — and build the description from those answers |
| The demo-day talk falls apart: you forget what to say | There is no prepared and rehearsed text | Write and say aloud 3–4 sentences beforehand; don’t improvise for the first time on demo day itself |
#Before the session
- Public hosting for your page (GitHub Pages) works long before session 22, not at the last moment.
- The intermediate versions of your files (
_step*.blend) and screenshots. - A week before demo day, prepare a short spoken talk.
