"Treehouse Ln" is the name of the street where I spent my childhood. Thus, I am very fond of tree houses and the youthful air about them. My MFA thesis film is about a young girl restoring an outer space themed tree house, so I wanted to create a logo for the film. I sketched this image about a year ago and thought it would be perfect for laser cutting.
Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator Techniques
In Photoshop, I created a 15 x 15 inch custom file at 600 dpi. I connected my Wacom Bamboo tablet to my laptop and began to sketch the tree house design. I used the circle marquee selection tool and filled it in with black paint. Then I made a smaller circle marquee selection inside the first circle and deleted the selection. After that I began painting the tree house, telescope, and comet design. I exported it out as a .png and opened it in Illustrator. Next, I used the Live Trace tool to convert the rasterized image to a vector graphic. I exported the Live Trace selection as a .dxf file, opened it in Rhino, added a couple holes at the top for hanging, and prepared the file for laser cutting.
Materials
I used brown hardboard leftover from my comet waffle lamp for the laser cut.
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