My final revision of my angel figure looks like this:
Brief Summary:
In total it was a 3-hour process to laser-cut and physically put together everything. This was all made in cardstock, no other paper materials were used. Here was my inspiration (the logo/character digital design), prints of the flat design, rhino file screenshots, prototype, compared to the final.
It has slightly become a bobblehead paper figurine because of the weight and attachment from the head and the body pieces. The only parts that didn't seem to fully work in the final revision were the burn marks on some of the wings because of the laser cutter.
From the feedback I received and the considerations of the small details from the original design that I didn't put into the prototype, I chose to add the eyes, tail, and a lot of wing pieces. Since I was using detailed cut-outs for the wings, I chose to add a splash of colour for the paper so that it emphasizes the focus of the viewers onto the wings. The body and head, I chose to continue to use a low poly design so that the outcome would become cleaner, and not as distracting as the other pieces of this papercraft. The initial wings that I had from the prototype were still in my final revision, though I used it to stabilize and hold together all the pieces from the wings. This made it easier to tape down the pieces separately so that I wouldn't break apart the body or the tail as I was curling and taping on the wings.
Even though on my Rhino file, I only had one page of wings, we ended up printing two copies of it. It wasn't an intentional decision at first to do this, we only printed another sheet because laser-cutting the little pieces, some of them detached from the paper while it was still cutting, so some fold lines weren't fully cut or some fold lines were shifted. However, this gave me the opportunity to use both sheets to fill in the gaps for certain pieces that seemed like they were missing a little bit of space. The fold lines for the top row of the wings didn't exactly turn out as how I had imagined when I made it digitally. In the end, the wings still seemed kind of flat when I placed them all together, so I decided to curl the ones I could by hand to give it a bit of dimension and hopefully steer the viewer's attention away from the burn marks. Some pieces I connected the wings so that the detailed individual ones could have someplace to stick onto, just in case the glue wears off and the wings come off from the cold weather.
After deciding for a long time, I chose to add-in the "devil's tail" from my original design because it seemed like an important piece that would look cool in a 3D model. I had my doubts on how sturdy it would be for the tip of the tail, but I got feedback that I could stack together flat pieces of papers just to create a stronger hold, so I did that for the tail, attaching the arrows to the tail at the top. For the arrow part, I left it looking slightly hollow so that it was easier for me to glue and it wouldn't be too heavy for the line part to hold up. I printed extras for both the halo and tail since I didn't how many layers would really hold the shape that I wanted without being too heavy and tip over in a certain direction. With a white piece of paper, maintaining the pentagon shape of the base, I made a flap that would be attached to the bottom edge and bottom of the body yet hide where the tail ended, "under" the wings.
For the colours of the tail and halo, I chose to do a golden yellow. It seems logical to choose this colour for the halo, but not exactly for the tail. Initially, I was going to do the tail in the blue cardstock that the wings were cut from, but I decided that it was a more important part of the figure and that it would almost give an ironic feel to why I chose to do halo and a devils tail in the same colour since its contradicting icons.
For the eyes, I chose to keep the same shape and
I printed 14 eyes onto a piece of white cardstock and glued 7 layers onto each side because that seemed easier than trying to create a 3-D eye with folds and glueing microscopic tabs. Because of how many layers I chose to use for the eye, they turned out to be very sturdy to a point where I just decided to hang them off the face. Initially, I thought it wasn't going to sturdy enough so I had a piece that had cut-out eyes, to place on the top half of the pentagon sides, however not only did that look very awkward for placing, but it also didn't appear as pop-out as the "hanging off the edge" method did. The eyes and body just perfectly align with each other so that if the model was laying on its face, the eyes would work as a surface to balance the face. This pop-up eye effect was inspired by how my keychain of the original flat model came out, the keychain was also laser-cut, but it was from Acrylic so that
For the colours of the tail and halo, I chose to do a golden yellow. It seems logical to choose this colour for the halo, but not exactly for the tail. Initially, I was going to do the tail in the blue cardstock that the wings were cut from, but I decided that it was a more important part of the figure and that it would almost give an ironic feel to why I chose to do halo and a devils tail in the same colour since its contradicting icons.
For the eyes, I chose to keep the same shape and
I printed 14 eyes onto a piece of white cardstock and glued 7 layers onto each side because that seemed easier than trying to create a 3-D eye with folds and glueing microscopic tabs. Because of how many layers I chose to use for the eye, they turned out to be very sturdy to a point where I just decided to hang them off the face. Initially, I thought it wasn't going to sturdy enough so I had a piece that had cut-out eyes, to place on the top half of the pentagon sides, however not only did that look very awkward for placing, but it also didn't appear as pop-out as the "hanging off the edge" method did. The eyes and body just perfectly align with each other so that if the model was laying on its face, the eyes would work as a surface to balance the face. This pop-up eye effect was inspired by how my keychain of the original flat model came out, the keychain was also laser-cut, but it was from Acrylic so that
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