Starting into this project, I was positively ecstatic. My enthusiasm shown through the conception ease of multiple chess pieces on photoshop (this was the easiest part) … only to come face to face with what was most challenging for me (the software). Maya shut down all hope of enjoying 3D modeling. Ultimately, going to YouTube and using outside tutorials helped me overcome this with understanding of how Maya was different than photoshop. I would very much like to have an option of making a “class chessboard” featuring a piece from each student in future classes; this sounds neat. Seeing as how I am a computer science major, this project helped me dip my toes into potentially something I may want to do if coding becomes too much. YouTube is such a great resource for this project as it saved me the confusion multiple times