Aug 16, 2019

Arts in the Park kicked off Friday afternoon with 含羞草社区 students teaching arts and crafts to children.

This free art lesson was a precursor of the free musical production, 鈥淵ou鈥檙e a Good Man, Charlie Brown,鈥 which began at 6 p.m.

James Simon, a sophomore at Missouri Western, showed kids how to draw Snoopy, a character from Charlie Brown. It was not the traditional way with a pen and paper, but instead with a device called a Zbrush. It resembles a pen and allows the artist the ability to move the object in three dimensions.

Simon is studying digital animation with sculpture as his minor.

鈥淟earning a lot of these programs for 3-D modeling takes a bit of time,鈥 Simon said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a blast being out here with everyone being around.鈥

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