Jenna Bastian & Renae Patoskie: Pepakura Project

My partner is Renae Patoskie. Our chess piece was based off the Knight. It has a horse head shape but with spiked mane and horns to resemble a dragon's head. So our piece is a Dragon Horse Knight. We made it look tough and bulky.

I modeled the head in Maya. I then duplicated it and deleted the bottom faces if we decided there not to be a bottom. The closed bottom head had 270 faces, and the open bottom had fewer than that. Renae worked on the pepakura part. She laid out the model pieces in the Pepakura program to be put into Rhino 3D. The model took up 4 sheets of cardboard.

We built the knight piece together, it took six hours. The final size of the dragon horse head is two and half feet. Over the summer we may work on it more.

Knight Piece in Rhino 3D

Knight Piece in Keyshot

Knight Piece Template in Rhino 3D

Knight Piece in my car

Knight Piece Model