BUILD A POLYGON SKULL

You can create anything from a few vertices, edges and faces... or rather, a skull, says Ant Ward

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Digital art touches every part of our lives, even when you don't realise it. For example, the film you're watching probably has polygons involved somewhere, whether it's a creature or character, or something less obvious such as the scenery.

Video games utilise 3D to generate the characters and environments. Even ones that appear to be 2D based, like Angry Birds or the Hollow Knight series, are actually using flat polygon planes to render the artwork rather than direct, hand-drawn images.

Then there's the passive influence 3D has. The phone in your pocket or the car you drive were designed using 3D software, just like pretty much everything else around you.