Showing posts with label Tamela Sicay-Perrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tamela Sicay-Perrow. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Tamela Sicay-Perrow: Final Robot Post






These pictures mark the culmination of my 3 pepakura project to date. The theme is a robot which is dissasembled on purpose. The continuation of this project is to use wires and lights to either suspend it in a workshop type atmosphere or to distress further and add attachments to make it look like a real robot being repaired. The pictures follow first from the modeling, to breaking it up in pepakura, to illustrator workflow and to the progress from unpainted pieces to a mostly assembled final silvery robot. There is more yet to come in this avenue of projects.

Tam

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Tamela Sicay-Perrow: Teeth Progression Final

The teeth were created in Maya as you can see above.


This is what I stared at for hours on end making sense of all these lines, trying to make my life easier in the illustrator section of the workflow to finish this project. I used a total of 4 programs to make this happen, maya, pepakura, illustrator, and rhino. I'm glad for a brief respite.


The process of using Pepakura seems to be an uphill battle for me. Though expected to begin and continue from simple to complex over a series of projects, I seem to bite of more than I can chew.... so to speak.

I began by closing the edge loops (always use edge-loop modeling for these forms), and then attaching all of these individual teeth you see here.

I then glued along the loops to finish each of the arches respectively. C'est fini pour maintenant.



I am only in these photos for scale. Supposedly.

-Tam

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Tamela Sicay-Perrow Final Posting

This is my last post of the quarter. Over the course of this class, I've been inundated with a lot of information that will take a long time to synthesize. I can only hope to use a portion of it within the lifetime of my artistic career. The images included can hopefully show the extent of my apppreciation of the class and my education. This rendering is the final proposal of what I can imagine my fdm surface population turning into.And this is the produced abs printed fused-deposition modeling "egg" that was later painted to match the mettalic finish in the rendering previous. This following picture is a screen capture of the ideal of what the pepakura file for the final project could have produced. The final model is flawed and is not pictured here, but the synthesis of this idea will continue. Once completed, I will post again to show the potential of the idea being realized.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Tamela Sicay-Perrow Progress Report

While continuing to work along with project's 1 and 2, the processes which I used are as follows. For the yellow foam cnc'd project, I coated the surface with a mixture of acetone and spot putty from an autoparts store, these form a seal after several coats. After letting it dry completely, and with minimal sanding I was able to coat the form with a smooth-on mixture to create a flexible mold.
This is what the mold looks like after complete drying to demold the original part. It is now ready to pour in whatever moldable liquid you might want to use, such as plaster, hot wax, or resin. This entire process doesn't need a mold release agent, and while messy, is less than expected.
Products used: yellow high density foam, plaster, burlap, smooth-on rebound 25, 100 percent pure acetone, and Dynatron glazing and spot putty.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Tamela Sicay-Perrow Project 2 FDM

For the second assignment, I labored over a grasshopper script to create a unique and hollow structure loosely inspired by an egg type form. The shape I used to populate the surface of the "egg" was a torus with small wings. This form will be fdm printed and possibly painted. Here are some screen shots. I particularly like the coating that was contained within hypershot, a short red velvet texture.