Modeling tools
TSA
Career pathways
3ds Max interface
Potpourri
100

This tool makes objects bigger or smaller.

What is the scale tool?

100

Often confused with the Transportation Security Agency, this is what the student organization

What is the Technology Student Association?

100

The skills, experience, and education needed for a job.

What are qualifications?

100

Located at the top of the screen, this provides access to all tools, including editing, rendering, and saving files.

What is the main menu?

100

Temporary positions that provide practical experience in a field.

What is an internship?

200

This tool can force an object to curve.

What is the bend tool?

200

The year the Technology Student Association was founded.

What is 1978?

200

An individual who creates movement, emotion, and personality to a set of 3D characters or objects.

What is an animator?

200

Located on the right side, this contains tools for creating, modifying, and adjusting objects.

What is the command panel?

200

Conveying ideas clearly and confidently, both in writing and verbally.

What is communication?

300

This tool can create multiple copies of a model in a pattern.

What is the array tool?

300

A robotics contest is an example of these kinds of TSA tournaments.

What is a competition?

300

An individual who builds the internal skeleton of a 3D character, which allows it to move realistically.

What is a rigging artist?

300

Located in the center, this displays 1 to 4 different perspectives of a 3D scene.

What are viewports?

300

The ability to understand and share the feelings of others.

What is empathy?

400

One of the functions of this tool is to cut holes into shapes.

What is the boolean tool?

400

More than 300,000 students in TSA further their studies in this kind of education.

What is STEM education?

400

An individual who creates the overall illustrated plan (the blueprint) for major scenes in a film.

What is a storyboard artist?

400

Found on the left side, this provides an organied view of all objects, lights, cameras, and other elements of the scene.

What is the Scene Explorer?

400

The process of evaluating one's own skills and progress.

What is self-assessment?

500

This view closely resembles human perception.

What is the perspective view?

500

Almost 5 million of these type of members were a part of TSA since it's founding. Also, the S in TSA.

What are students?

500

An individual who sets the mood of a scene, makes objects look realistic with virtual lights.

What is a 3D lighting artist?

500

Located just under the main menu, this contains shortcuts for frequently used tools like move, rotate, and scale.

What is the toolbar?

500

Taking ownership of one's actions and their outcomes.

What is personal responsibility?

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