ATEC-FAB UTDallas : Jenna Bastian Week 9: Serial Slices

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Jenna Bastian Week 9: Serial Slices

Since the last couple projects were fire theme, I decided to do the serial slices project over water. My pet Dragon-Scaled Betta fish was my inspiration, I wanted to to capture his delicate swiftness. Fish live in water, so it fits the theme. I will be using thin material when putting the pieces together so it can better keep its shape. The sections will also help show his many scales and symbolize ripples or waves in water.

I modeled the betta in Maya and then imported it into Rhino 3D. I followed Andrew Scott's tutorial videos to create the slices. I will be using 1 Ply cardboard (.13 thickness) for the material and perhaps paint it either white or blue (wave colors). The rods will go through the middle of the fish from the mouth to the back fin. Since there were so many slices, I used two templates to fit them all. This is going to be fairly large (16 inches long).

In Keyshot, I kept the backgrounds simple. The first Keyshot render was a wood material to show what it would look like with cardboard (I may redo this with plywood later). The second is a blue metallic color since the color is water themed and is what I may paint it with. Assembling the betta's back fin was tricky. Since it is thin, it flops side to side but decided to keep it that way since it is a fish.