Anyssa Akridge Week #8 3d Printing Project

Concept

My concept was inspired by these centaur garage kits that were sold at Wonder Festival 2015-16 In Japan. I adore collectable figurines and what's known as "Monster girls" in Japan. I decided to do my own twist on the centaur and did a half slug half gal hybrid. My collectable is supposed to be customizable using different painting applications just like garage kits. Each slug girl is supposed to come in a neutral color just like these tohoku centaur figurines. The owner then gets to paint their slug however they want!

Techniques

Bounding box dimensions depicted in the command line

 I used the software called Sculptris to model my figurine. In the program I primarily used the grab tool and mirror tool to form a symmetrical figure. Then I used the draw tool and crease tool to add the details to my character. I then used the smooth tool to pat down all the bumps on my figure to create a finished surface. Afterwards I transferred my figure over to Mudbox to check for any mesh mistakes. When that was over and done with I transferred my figure over to Rhino to resize my figure and convert my .OBJ file to an .STL file for printing. I sent over my figure to Shapeways and got my figure printed out in sandstone. I feel like using sandstone and Sculptris for my figure suited the more organic form of my design 

Materials

For printing My figure I used sandstone. This material is smooth and holds details well, which was perfect for my figure. I also finished my figure with sandpaper and Krylon gray primer, to give it the  feeling of a garage kit. In Keyshot I used a simple maroon paint render. This is because most garage kit figures come in a neutral color like gray to make it easier to hand paint on collectors, but since our keyshot backgrounds are at 50% gray, the neutral gray color would blend in too much, so I choose a maroon color to make it pop out from the background. I also feel like the shiny paint material shows details and mistakes well when creating figures.

Matthew Durham - 3D Printing 2017

Concept:

For my idea i wanted to make an eastern dragon skull. I based the bone structure and cavities of the skull on McGibbs Dragon skull.

Techniques: 

For this project I took the dinosaur head from Mudbox imported that into maya and altered it to get a 3-d model for Mudbox. i then sculpted that in Mudbox to get my 3D-model and imported into rhino to check for naked edges. 

Materials: 

As far as materialize go i kept everything the same because of it being bone. 

Klarissa Austin - 3D Printing

Concept:

The character used for this project is one owned by myself. I intended to use him for this project as he is a character made of relatively simple shapes, and therefore would not be overtly complicated to model. He is also mostly comprised of round shapes, which made him easier to model with NURBs methods, which I have grown fond of. The 3D print was intended to serve as a reference when I later make him out of clay for a personal project.

Technique:

I used mostly sphere shapes to create the base for this project. I then went in and edited the control points to make him more the shape I needed. I did not bother with details such as the thin fins on the back and ears, as those would likely have not survived printing due to thickness. I attempted to make the ruff around his neck, but was unfortunately unable to get it to work in a manner that would mesh with the rest of the model. My biggest issue was time. Due to a hectic life, I was unable to finish the model in an amount of time that would allow me to print him before the deadline.



Material:

As this is a model intended to be a character, I had no intention of having multiple materials on him, as he is all just covered with the same type of skin. Had I been able to print the model, I would have painted him in a fashion like the image above, with the exception of the gradients, which would have been changed to either a solid while or a solid yellow.

Michael Zink - 3D Printing

     For my project, I decided to continue on my castle project so that I would have the most time possible to paint the model, which I believed at the start of the project to be the most time consuming part of it.

     I had to make some changes to the model in order to get it ready to be printed, mainly adding a base to the model and scaling it down. I also decided to add some more detail to the model by adding a second tier to the model and placing many small structures onto it to give a better sense of scale to the whole model. I then connected the two portions with three cylinders in order to more evenly distribute the weight the second tier would add.

     I decided to continue the general theme of the model and extended many of the materials I already used onto the new section I added. However, I did add darker materials to the small building on the second tier in order to create more contrast between the two tiers, specifically in the difference between the dark roofs of the second tier, and the gold roofs of the first.

     When I was painting the model I tried my best to stay true to the colors and textures I used on the model. I decided to paint the connecting cylinders and base of the model black to try and show that they were only designed to hold the model together and were not a part of the model themselves.

Conrad, Michael: Castle Fall 2017

concept

I appreciate the roundness of the features of Antoni Gaudi.  Ultra modern simplicity was imbribed into the sculptural space that could serve as an expansive living space.

technique

Using the polyline tool, I lofted a wall structure to make a facade.  Then, I incorporated a central space that could serve as a courtyard.  I added a slanted partition to the larger of the vessel rooms.  There are two paraboloids on the surface to offset the loneliness of the ingoing cylinder and to serve as decorative elements.

material

Urban concrete texture best matched the theme of the concept because of its rigidity and absoluteness of form.  

Elizabeth Garvey: Castle Fall 2017

Concept
I was inspired by the turrets and many roofs of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria Germany. I initially wanted to make a castle, which  mimicked similar elements of the actual castle it was made of. I ended up not doing this however and instead chose to experiment with the texture materials

Techniques
I initially constructed the model in Rhino, using basic shapes that would resemble a castle. at this point I was not entirely sure how I wanted the materials to look. After finishing the model I

imported it into Keyshot and started playing around with the textures. This was actually a lot of fun for me, and I went through many iterations of the model.

Materials
Initially the real castle Neuschwanstein itself was built using brick and light colored limestone, and iron as it was built to the finest specifications of its day. The materials I used in keyshot when I  rendered the model were a rough grey metal, hexagon slate for the orbs, and a wavy glass which looked like wateri initially wanted the orbs on the top of the castle to have light pass through them and initially I put a texture that made it look a little more opaque, but in the end I went with the solid hexagonal mesh for contrast, because it is just so different from the metal in the rest of the castle.

Matthew Durham: Castle Fall 2017

Concept

      My initial idea came from a mixture of ancient Greek origins and art from Disney's Hercules and God of Wars mount Olympus. I wanted the design to have similar elements however while at the same time the throne being its own separate entity. 

Techniques: 

     All my design where based on a circular shape which where just repeated among the castle. For all bases of the circular pavilions I used a cylinder with truncated cones attached to the bottom to give it the tapered look. The throne is made of rectangles that are combined to give it, it's shape. That was then copied and scaled smaller to make the chairs for the smaller pavilions. once I had both the throne pavilion and the smaller circular made I brought out the smaller pavilion and did a polar array and used that to make the other two. After everything was correct I used the circular tool to make the circles, which where then used with the Curve Boolean to make the circle shapes. 

Materials:

    For colors I wanted to stick with materials that where warm inviting and peaceful. For materials I selected granite for the pavilions to give it the feel of everlasting, like it was built to last. The pillars I used porcelain for the fragility of such belief as well. The throne and chairs where made of marble for the same reason as the pavilions.