Becca's Auarts Blog

    The assignment for this week was to take one of our significant objects, of which mine was a plant, and make it into a 2D template. I ended up redesigning a lot of my plant to print better and appear more realistic. Due to the nature of aloe vera, many of the leaves require lots of work with tabs and many pieces. As seen below, I have my original 3D plant design (left) and my updated, detailed plant on the right. I really like this design, but I have to admit that my modeling plane is very crowded with different tests not to mention all the reject leaves that I've deleted.

The assignment for this week was to create a 3d model and then deconstruct it (by "unfolding it") so that it was 2d. By using surface modeling, we can make easy blueprints for a 3d object.  Below is the practice round I did in class, and it kind of reminds me of the top of a castle. Similar to the type you would see in childhood fairy tales or picture books. My first designed object is Eraserhead's goggles from the show My Hero Academia. The show itself is really important to me for a various number of reasons. Ranging from it being one of my favorite animes, it's also important to me because it was the first anime series I watched with my dad and anime ended up bringing our relationship really close together when it was previously somewhat distant. In the context of the show, Eraserhead's goggles prevent other people from telling when he uses his superpower (quirk) to stop other people's quirks to level the playing field. I think it's cool that someone wi

Papercraft is something that transforms paper into works of art. It can be used to create a two or three dimensional object. The article that inspired me the most was  Hoang Tien Quyet's wet fold origami animals. It caught my interest at first due to the fact I made origami cranes all the time as a kid, but I was intrigued by how the folds were smooth rather than crisp. I enjoy how the paper looks pristine with clean curves that don't show accidental crumples that sometimes accompany origami. After learning about wet folding from Giang Dinh, Quyet decided to create his own style of origami using the techniques he learned. From what I understand of wet folding, by using thicker paper and having it dry after the paper is formed into it's shape, it creates a more sturdy piece of origami compared to it's original which uses thin pieces of paper for extremely sharp and precise details. He approaches his work with the intent to breath life into his pieces. His horse would hav

Finally finished Bartholomew III! I've decided to make him mostly shiny to imitate a slimy frog, but I have made his stomach and his toe beans a rougher texture to imitate fur and grip respectively. His big eyes had to be glossy and all seeing and his top hat is a simple felt texture. His tail was rough and textured also to reflect on the difference between smooth frog and beaver tail. I have also added a  lilypad  to Bartholomew to further set the scene, which I smoothed out first in Meshmixer.