Marissa Hernandez: week 12 Laser scanning

concept: I was not entirely sure what I wanted to scan at first. I then came across this little heart, even though it was red I was able to paint it white.  I thought this would be a neat and easy design since it gave me a basic shape to build off of.

heart object

Techniques: To start off the process I painted the white heart so that the Next Engine scanner would be able to read it. I then place blue dots all over the model so I could easily pin point the alignment when needed in Rapid works. We had to single scan each side and then piece it together, because the whole 360 scan was not really in our favor. Once I was done scanning it I moved the model into rapid works and polished it so it did not have holes from the dots with the sandpaper tool. I then finalized it with Key shot. I added a dim lighting due to the dim environment for UTD setting.

model in Rapidworks

Materials: For my materials I used a copper pink material for the whole heart. For the lighting I used a dim environment sunset,so that it could match the finalized environment well.

model rendered in UTD environment

Marissa Hernandez: week 10 Laser engraving

concept: My inspiration came from the love of both foxes and roses individually. I always love to create something that I would like to see hanging on my wall or just appealing to me overall. I decided to combine roses and foxes together somehow. I thought it would be interesting to have an interesting design to have roses cut through the foxes and that way they intertwined together.

illustrator format

Techniques: For this project I created a laser cut file strictly through illustrator by using the curve tool to draw out the lines seen. I drew them according to shallow cuts and deep cuts separated by layers. I chose to do the foxes and line going through as deep cuts to make them stand out more since there were more roses than foxes. Then I drew the roses as shallow engraving and as you can see they came out with a bit of shading due too this and then circular and repeating way they were drawn.

full design

close up 

full skateboard with design

Materials: I bought a blank skateboard off of Amazon and used this as my canvas.

Marissa Hernandez: week 11 polyhedra

concept: I started off by looking through the site given to us to find which one I would like to make something out of. I came across this model of the Great Dodecahedron and it drew me to it because I like the fact that these looked like stars all over the model. I thought I could add neat designs to the stars to make them look like shooting stars, but when I got the model I had different plans.

rhino file

Techniques: I used Rhino to turn the paths into proper settings for laser cuttings. The outside lines consisted of outer cuts coded in a magenta layer. The reference layer was cyan to measure out the proper width for my cardboard. The inner cut consists of blue, dotted lines to make it able to fold when it comes out of the laser cutter. Then once I got it I changed my mind and folded it the complete opposite way instead of inwards to outwards. This made it look more like a rigid sphere, so I worked a different route. Using the whiteness of the cardboard, I accentuated it with a black outline of certain sides to abstractly show the negative sides.

Materials: For the materials  I only used the source of the library of different polyhedras to choose from. I then used the cardboard for the design to be cut out of.

polyhedra overall

one side of  polyhedra

Marissa Hernandez: Week 1 castle

ghosted

ghosted with materials

Concept: My inspiration for this castle was a birthday cake. I thought what was cylinder shape and that could be a fun design for a castle, and then I thought of a cake. I thought I would keep the center of attention as the “cake.” The rest of the design such as the two towers are based on candles. Then it looked a bit empty so I added on the back square part of it and got even more additive and added the diamond like things to class it up a little.

pedestrian View

bird's eye view

Techniques: For the different techniques I used a lot of the poly surface tool to create the basic shapes. Then I used the tube tool for the main cake part with the tiers and as well for the decoration rings around it. For the windows scene throughout it, I used the Boolean difference tool to cut out sphere shapes I learned in the flashlight tutorial. I used the copy command tool as well to get the symmetry of the castle.

Materials: For the materials I wanted to keep it the same color scheme and I focused on what a cake would have, but I wanted to spice it up a little as well. I kept the main wall, and cylinders surrounding, it to a matte white to keep that same element a cake with frosting would have with no shine. Then I thought adding metallic decorations would help bring out the essence of their importance. For the big diamonds I thought it would take too much away from the cake if I made them a metal as well, so I went with a more subtle look for them and used a dull material. Then I went with a studio lighting with three lights because I felt all of the outdoor/indoor lighting took away from the color of the metals.