Victoria Mayfield & Jonathan Gloria: Purple Rain Pepakura

Concept: When we first began trying to come up with ideas for a successful pepakura project, we knew we wanted to do something from nature. We researched different possibilities like trees, mountains, even rainbows. We ended up deciding on a raincloud. We then decided to model a lightning bolt as well as raindrops to be suspended by fishing line.

Modeling: The modeling was pretty basic. We used Maya for most of our modeling, and Rhino for scaling. For the cloud, we created a sphere, extruded it and pulled it into the general shape we wanted. Then we used the sculpt geometry tool to pull out the bumps of the cloud. We used rhino to create the lightning bolt. For that, we simply created the main body shape using the curve tool, I then extruded that curve, and capped off the open faces. The rain drops were created in Maya by simply extruding a box multiple times, and merging the vertices on each side to one point. We then used Rhino to scale three different sizes of the raindrops to create some interest using size.

Materials: For the materials, we used eflute cardboard, as it is best for pepakura. We then went over the seams of the cloud with white duct tape to give the cloud a more uniform shape and feel. For the raindrops, we decided to coat them in purple glitter to commemorate Prince after his tragic passing. From there, I used an exacto knife to cut organic lightning shapes into the lightning bolt, and lined the inside of the bolt with LED lights. This created a really nice effect when the LEDs would reflect off the purple glitter on the raindrops. I then used a thing white masking tape around the edges of the lightning bolt to hold everything together. We attached the rain drops and the lightning bolt to the bottom of the cloud with fishing line and super glue. Then used fishing line and a metal ring attached to the top of the cloud to create an apparatus to hang the cloud from. Overall, we are very pleased with how the project turned out and think it’s a beautiful homage to one of the greatest and most influential musical artists of our time.

Jonathan Gloria : "Exotic" Prosthetic Accessory

Concept: For my prosthetic accessory, I was thinking about doing an accessory that you could wear out to a party, or wear it out to go jogging. When I look at pictures of the jogging types of prosthetic legs, I saw a bunch of the prosthetic jogging legs, and they had a bunch of open space with not a lot around. So I made my prosthetic accessory have holes and curves, so that it would be aerodynamic, easy to run in, and still look good out with any prosthetic leg type. 

 Technique: I made the leg out of curves, and cut off the foot part when I finished getting it the right shape. I added different sized rings around the leg, and some of them were at different angles to make it look more interesting. After I added all the rings, I did the Boolean difference to make the dents.I also used some curves to cut the holes out from inside the leg and make the inside holes. I used project to surface on the side that cut off the triangle on the side, and I also used project to cut the back part of the leg to slip it on and off.

Materials: For my prosthetic I used different types of Anodized Rough colors. I tried out the plastic materials, but I wasn't a big fan of how it looked. I really like how the colors looks a little bit like metal. I didn't want it to be super shiny like metal, and I didn't want it to look like it would break easily like plastic.