David Norkiewicz: Project 8: Pepakura Chess Piece w/ Philip Barker

Statement of Purpose: For this assignment,we to expound upon the last object we created from cardboard. This time were told to model and create a chess piece. The piece that Philip and I chosose to do was a king piece. We took the idea from the the Lord of the Ring. We used Barad-dûr, aka The tower of sauron.

The piece was originally going to be a castle piece, but the idea of using this specific tower did not feel right to use it as a lesser piece on the board. Instead, this iconic tower would be used as our kingly piece to the set.

Modeling techniques: This model, while simplistic, was difficult to make while staying within the 200 polygon limit we were told to use.

As can be seen, the tower looks remarkably like the picture above. Orgionally the model looked much more exact, but the spires on the sides  had to be cut.

The final image above is our finished king piece. Putting together the tower took around 1.5 hours, but then again it stands about 4ft tall. I have to say that I really like this piece and will be looking into doing something like it in the future!