Author: James Charlton

Year 1 Visual Arts students are required to keep a running blog as part of Core Studio and Studio 1. The blogs function is to be reflective. It will be for photographically documenting your own artwork, analysis of your art practice and uploading contextual research (articles, artists). Your blog must be presented at every feedback and assessment event.

Other Visual Arts students can see your blog and make comments about your posts. In line with AUT code of conduct you should avoid posting personal, sensitive or offensive material. Consult a Lecturer before posting any content you are unsure about.

Your blogs accounts have been set up for you. Please follow the How To guide on Canvas to set up your profile and make your first post.

Below you will see a few post made by student last year. Have a browse through them to get an idea of how to approach your blog.

This page tells you how to insert a 3D viewer into your post and link it to your 3D object. At the moment the viewer is not displaying textures. You can upload STL, OBJ, FBX or GLB file formats.

Upload a 3D object to the library using the Media tab in the dashboard.

When the upload is complete, click on the object in the library.

This window is displayed. Click on “Copy URL to clipboard”

Go to the blog post where you want to show the object and toggle the block installer to display the search box. Type in shortcode.

Past in the object URL. It will be something like this: https://visualarts.aut.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/bananaobj.obj

Directly in front of it type in :

Directly after it type in:

It should look like this:

It won’t have the blue highlight. Note there are no spaces between or after the URL you pasted in.

Now safe draft the post and preview the post. You should see the object displayed like this:

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These are the blogs of Year 1 BVA students.

You can view other people’s blogs and edit your own here. Click on the avatar below to access posts. You must be logged in to make new posts.