Project 2 cardboard-based upscaling with serial slicing then pepakura

 The serial slicing started with having to remove the base and include 2 holes for pipes to keep the sculpture aligned as the slices are built, one upon the other upon the other. This required the use of grasshopper scripts and a more advanced understanding of what more rhino was capable of executing. 

Getting the slices and putting them together on the dowels was incredibly fun, a really zen process. Afterwards we covered it with the 2 part epoxy as well as the black gesso to finish. 

Afterwards I began to cover the piece in trash after drilling in some rebar and twisting wires around it, creating a separate branch. I had found a branch that fit the general size I was looking for and pushed in some aluminum foil in its cracks. this was then adhered to the opposite side of the wire-made branch. After painting the eye and coating it in xtc 3d I began laying bark upon the sculpture. The monster would use dying organing matter such as bark to make it seem like a natural creature, therefore I thought using real materials would further that message and notion. 

I wish to revise this project because the bark did not work as well as I otherwise would have wanted. 

                                

Above: Tennis ball covered in plaster sheet to create the floating eye
Below: foam used to create the irises for the eyes (EVA foam)

                                             

The next and final project was the pepakura processing, I separated everything I needed to, as the mesh for the eye was stuck within the mesh of the stump. I did a Boolean difference and kept both pieces as separate pieces. We lowered the poly count, did a cage edit and scaled the piece up yet again to around 4 feet in height. The cage edit twisted the piece a little clockwise. 

The smaller pieces on the 3rd sheet are the parts that fold up to make the eye. When all of the cardboard came in, Andrew Bittner messaged me for pick up and Once I got the pieces I realized I made the slats extremely small, which was very troubling and made the piece incredibly difficult to hold together without getting much glue on my fingers and damaging them. I put it together and taped everything. This tape ended up being very garish, and I plan on revising this piece as well. I've ordered the tape and will be working on it through the week. 

         

I value greatly everything I learned this semester, I will try my best to continue working in the digital fabrication space when it applies to my practice.