Excerpt of a post originally published on the Carleton College Humanities Center Blog 1/14/2025

Over the course of three weeks, I worked with Professor Austin Mason on his ongoing project to create a viking longship for virtual reality applications, including a minigame and interactive elements involving real artifacts. Since this work has been in progress for several years already, being a joint effort between Carleton and Grinnell Colleges at various points, coming in at this stage proved difficult—much of the work had already been completed, so most of what remained was filling in the gaps in the project. Documentation of processes were inconsistent, which made recreating steps, for continuity, more difficult.

As a member of the 3D art team, most of my job was touching up pre-existing pieces of art. My work…