Maizie Desmarais: Week 10 Serial Slice

Concept:

My serial slice model was based off a children's cartoon called "My Neighbor Totoro." I really loved the unique silhouette that can easily be recognized and the overall design of the spirit. Totoro is a forest spirit that is friendly towards the children that appear in the movie and really brings out the inner personality of a furry giant. 

Techniques:

My model was completely made in Maya software and started off with 2 spheres: one for the body and one for the head. I then sculpted those to the shapes I needed and combined them together. For the arms, ears, and tail, I extruded a few faces outwards until I got the desired shape I needed. I then used contour command in Rhino to create my slices and extruded for the model.

Materials:

Because Totoro is a forest spirit, I thought wood would be a great material to use to really match the character's home. For wood I used oak purely because of the color and texture it gives off to make my slices for visible. The second material I used was a glass texture just to see the highlights off each individual slice and really liked how it looked.

Maizie Desmarais: Week 1 Duck

My duck model was pretty simplistic, but after I made it I didn't know how to change certain things such as the neck. My inspiration of the added feathers and wings was somewhat based off a chocobo from Final Fantasy. I used control points for the organic modeling and mirroring to get the same size of eyes and feathers on each size. Material-wise, I didn't want a shiny duck and tried to make a matte-look to achieve a more realistic model.

Maizie Desmarais: Week 1 Castle

For my castle, I wanted to go a little more fantasy-based and referenced stuff from Kingdom Hearts and google. Originally I made a castle with the use of tons of polar arrays, but in the end I didn't really like it and decided to just make a castle with tons of modular pieces such as  cylinder solids, cones, and cubes.