Papercraft Prototype

Finally moving out of the digital world and into the physical, I've developed a prototype papercraft object from an object from my previous post. I'll walk you through the process.

So below is the object I started with, if you want to see the design in Rhino, just check out my last blog post.


The object cut out.


Starting my first folds.




Alright now here I realized that I had one too many tabs, so I just cut it off... kind of a pain to do, but once I got it, it worked muuuuch better.


And finally a few snapshots of the final product!






It was actually pretty fun designing and building this thing, I'd like to spend a little more time with the program and try some crazier stuff in the future!

Digital Samples of Papercart

So we're moving towards paper craft in my 3D object design course, and as a project we had to compile some digital samples of 3D objects exploded into a 2D form, as to be able to print it out and actually be able to form it into a 3D object in the real world. Here are a few simple examples I've done in class:




















Now doing this for the first time, I really didn't experience too many difficulties with the process. I mostly found the process to be extremely tedious. I WISH there was an option to have the program automatically flatten these objects! Maybe in the future... Thanks for reading!

Some Sick Lightboxes

So I've been looking at these paper sculptures done by Hari and Deepti, and they; somehow, bring me back to my childhood. I've always loved lights, in any context. From the warm glow in you're living room to the crazy light shows you'd see at some bizarre electronic music festival, except this has a much more soothing feel too it.

So basically they use GIANT pieces of paper and cut out THOUSANDS of tiny pieces to create a silhouette of whatever they want! Then they just put it in a shadow box and throw some LED lights behind it. My words don't do it much justice, its definitely done more carefully and eloquently than I've put it, just check it out for yourself!

 

Hours upon hours must have been spent cutting out such fine details, look at the craftsmanship in that!!

And my personal favorite:

Here's what they look like without any LED lights:

This one is pretty cool too, there's actually a video showing how it was made!

Here's the website i grabbed all these pictures from: (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/03/illuminated-cut-paper-light-boxes-by-hari-deepti/)

And of course if you're looking for that video, it can be found at that web address.

Of course all of these amazing pieces have been done by Deepti Nair and Harikrishnan Panicker.

So apparently they where inspired to do these kinds of pieces by Balinese shadow puppets. I of course had absolutely no idea of what those were, so i looked it up. The name does pretty much say it all; its shadow puppet theater. Wayang is a type of performance done with human performers and shadow puppets, (and in some that I have seen) with illuminated backgrounds! I can definitely see where the inspiration came from. Here are some examples, see if you can spot the similarity's!

Anyway, I think this stuff is pretty cool. If i get a chance, I'd love to try and make one of these, once i can find some goddamn time. Don't really have much of it these days... ANYWAY, thanks for reading, just wanted to share!

Illustrator Practice

So I just started using Adobe Illustrator, and its pretty damn cool. I'm still trying to grasp most of the cooler aspects of the program, but as for right now, I think I have some basics down. I spent a while making small thumbnails in my object design class to get used to the program. So nothing that impressive, but lots of fun experimentation!

Remix Culture

When I first heard of Remix Culture, I wasn't too keen on the idea of it. I never really liked taking works from other people and meshing them together to make my own thing, I always wanted to make it straight from scratch all on my own. But now when I look at it, don't you get your inspiration from other works anyways? Its not too different, and I have had a change of heart about remix culture. Mixing two objects together in Meshmixer and Tinkercad has actually been a lot of fun. Something with a completely different feeling can be created from two things that mean completely different things. And that's why I've started to like the idea of remix culture a little bit more. Through remixing, I've created a mashup of ice cream and an ogre. I like the contrast of the two ideas with these objects. Ice cream is soft and sweet, and an ogre is gross, green and mean. It might not be direct juxtaposition, but I think the idea is there. It makes me laugh because of said contrast, so you know it's good enough for me. I spoke with some classmates and they all thought it already fit well, but it needed more; it was a little plain. So i figured i could throw a little cone hat on em'. I think it makes it A LOT better. Anyway, here are some pictures of the ogre ice cream, and the objects I downloaded from Thingiverse to make it!



And now the pieces used to create whatever Hell this ogre ice cream thing came from:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1582693


http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:451445


http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1763134

As you can see, I had to decrease the complexity of the objects quite a bit to actually load them into Tinkercad, I do believe it still gets the point across however.


As you can see from the picture above, Ogre Ice Cream can be downloaded from Thingiverse. Here's the link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1803751
Until next time! Cheers!