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

Tamela Sicay-Perrow Project 1 CNC Mill

I have completed the first step in Project 1, a 3d model from which a block of yellow polyurethane foam will be milled out and later molded. Thematically, these are an abstraction of a fruit or melon. Poured casts will be grouped together, and arranged for the final piece. This mould can also be combined to create fully round melon type objects, or partials.
The models were created by manipulating control-points or CV's in Rhino, from perfect spheres to shapes with symmetrically spaced ridges.

More postings will follow updating on process and progression into the final piece, as this perfectly symmetrical milled object is but the means to an end.

Tam