Vee Valavil Covid 19 Mask

Vee Valavil

Covid 19 Mask 

Concepts

I originally drew up this concept thinking about the masks that myself, civilians, and medical officials created. My design focused on allowing civilians and medicals officials to utilize Bluetooth technology without the risk of spreading COVID-19 via contact with their phone, pager, etc. My inspiration for the mask shown is from the Japanese anime Dragonball Z. The character I focused on specifically was a character named “Cumber”. The character has a full mask that covers the lower half of the face and had circles on the side of the face that I thought could utilize some form of Bluetooth technology built into it. I incorporated various elements into the mask and removed the nose part of the mask straps to allow for an individual to wear glasses, or another eye protection along with the mask. 

Techniques

My method of creating the mask started in cycles. I first started creating the mask and then started creating the shell of the mask.

To create the mask, I first created a circle object and used the scale tool to contour the circle in the front view to contour the shape of the circle the shape of the human face. Next I did a rebuild of the mask structure and tried my best to contour it to the face. I then created a median line and cut the mask in half to using the trim tool. I used the one half of the remaining and started creating a symmetrical design of the mask around the mouth and nose of the face model. I then used the mirror technique utilizing the median line to join each side of the mask together to create the design.

When it came to the shell of the mask, I wanted the mask structure to be solid instead of creating straps. I created the base structure of the straps using curves and joining them together with fillets. I then projected the straps onto the face and created a separate layer for them. I then manipulated the form of the mask to the head. I then create segments for the mask to make sure there were cross sections that would attach to the face. Once all the cross sections were created, I used patch srf and made the multiple sections of the mask. I then use the split tool to then imprint the cross sections into the model and then proceeded to patch them. I also create additional curves that would allow the mask to connect to the base of the mask as you can see at the bridge of the mask. Lastly the offset srf command was used to make the surfaces solid and ensure that they protruded out from the face as expected. Lastly, I took two spheres, sized them to fix the ears, placed them on the mask and trimmed the excess surfaces to create a headphone-like structure over the ears.

Materials

Plastic painted with red and black gloss paint.