Journey of Design

  This was a test render of him to see the colors on him and see if I needed to change anything Simple render of him put together Different stance

  This week I worked on the harder parts of my model and it took a lot longer to make these. The fact that some of these shapes are on angles really messed me up specifically when I hade to Booleandiffernce things away from them He is comming together  just need to add materials and render him 

 This week I spent the time scaling and mapping the largest pieces and plane to revolve and extrude them so I can then make the holes they have. As I was mapping the pieces I started to see the model come together and was eager to see the finished product

  For my laser cut I decided to use wood even though I wanted color for my piece because I would not be able to achieve different layers to the degree I would want. I would like to do this laser cut again now that I know what certain intensities look like on this wood. I was kind of guessing the values for the layers and it worked out mostly but the flower in the middle would pop more if I used a larger range of intensities for the added contrast. I will probably use this as a coaster for now but I would like to keep exploring laser cutting using different materials and designs

The three objects I decided to choose for this project are a pencil sharpener, Lego figure, and a exacta knife as seen below.  

I was aiming to recreate a tankard through exploring what I can do to already existing materials. Using commands I now and learning some new ones I was able to create this. I started this project making a simple tea cup and using the pipe command to create the hand but as got close to finishing I was not happy with the results so I swapped up my design for a tankard. Offset was the main tool I used on this being able to create the simple outline and creating the metal that hold the cup together. For the handle I used sweep 1 and created a curve in the shape I wanted and then created a rectangle at one end of the curve and rotated it as I liked.  This project helped me learn more tools that I can use on future projects such as sweep and pipe. Materials really help bring the model to life.