I saw a ship a-sailing

This blog follows the trials and tribulations of an archaeology student trying to muddle his way through a graduate-level Visualization course on 3D Modelling and Animation at Texas A&M University. Throughout the coming months, this blog will detail the step-by-step process of creating a 30-second animation inspired by the nursery rhyme 'I saw a ship a-sailing.'

I saw a ship a-sailing,
A-sailing on the sea;
And oh, it was all laden
With pretty things for thee!

There were comfits in the cabin,
And apples in the hold;
The sails were made of silk,
And the masts were made of gold.

The four and twenty sailors,
That stood between the decks,
Were four and twenty white mice,
With chains about their necks.

The captain was a duck,
With a packet on his back;
And when the ship began to move,
The captain said, "Quack, Quack!"