Weeks
1-3 - 3D Modeling
Week 2 Blog
Task: (Continue
to) Create two 3D object models, one “in the round” and the other “in relief”
that can be used to create 3D prints, and as models for other various digital
fabrication versions over the course of the semester
Process: 3D Modeling, Digital Sculpting, & (Deal with my own
consuming FEAR of artistic Inadequacy!) Thanks ProfScott!
Tools: Autodesk
Mudbox
The highlight of Week 2 was my “Come to Jesus” moment/meeting
with ProfScott later in the week, to express my crippling (and, not totally un-rational)
FEAR of not being able to live up to his expectations of a graduate digital fab
student. It was my naked FEAR of failure, a new experience for someone who has
successfully navigated over 330 college hours, and multiple degrees of almost
purely Left-Brain World. I was deeply worried about not being able to keep up
with the creative geniuses who rotate around the ScottSolarSystem (SSS), The
young turks whose wonderful art I had been admiring, and who had been
inspirations to me - Denise, Amanda, Mo
& PepaRon, etc., not to mention the OTHER talented students in our class.
Basically, I was having severe second thoughts on my ATEC
plan and totally stressed out by the uncertainty of whether I was capable,
based on my severely limited arts background, of accomplishing his Digital
Fabrication class and keeping up with all the amazing talent in the class.
Was I insane to think I could even try to complete the
course requirements with my lifetime of mostly ZERO Right Brain artistic
activity? And was Professor Scott even MORE insane in allowing a total artistic
newbie like me to be a “poser’ in his creative world, creative space, creative
orbit????
Professor Scott wisely de-stressed me big time, by offering
to make my time in his class an Independent Study and emphasize my relatively
prepared artistry and passion for Storytelling.
Sly move Prof!! It worked. As Prof shared, in Art, stress is
counterproductive, deliverables suffer.
I still don’t know whether I’m still in ATEC 6389 or
Independent Study. At this point, I don’t care. I’m just excited to have survived to mid-semester
!!
I have to say Prof Scott was amazing in his empathetic
response to my FEAR of failure. I will be eternally grateful for the time he
spent with me that week, and the encouragement that he displayed to me. Thanks
ProfScott!!!!!!!!
One of the key lessons I learned from my dance with artistic
FEAR was my dominant Left-Brain approach of trying to Impose creative will from
above versus accepting the auto poetic formation from below. Paradoxical
ChaOrder.
Another very helpful lesson was the invaluable demonstration
of ProfScott’s ‘playful’ process
of riffing out outrageous character designs in Mudbox. He
demonstrated what I call his “PlayDoh!” digital sculpture exploration process.
It really helped loosen me up.
Another interesting frustrating anecdote for my first three
week of the 3D Modeling module adventure was the 10 hour, 10 day fiasco that I
invested (& wasted) with Autodesk Customer Support??? trying to get Mudbox
2016 (the school’s current version) on my $3K home iMac. Turns out,
unbelievably, Autodesk doesn’t support Mudbox 2016 on the newest version of the
MacOS, El Capitan!!!!! Only Mudbox 2017.
WTF!@#$#@! YGTBSM!
Here’s a screen capture from Mudbox of what I calling my ‘AlienArtist’
bust character.
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