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Milestone Projects

 

1. Castle
    For this project, I was refreshing my memory on how to use Rhino so it became a very symmetrical design as I was trying to reuse the commands I learned last year. I had no plan as to what I wanted my castle to look like, I just wanted to keep building on from smaller bits and pieces. I actually went into designing the interior more than the exterior since I was building out of it. I had two to three rooms on each side with a desk and doors with extremely tiny doorknobs. Though you can't really see them now that I put a ceiling over the rooms. That's on me for not fully planning out what I needed before I started creating the castle. 




2. Surface Design Study
    For this design, I had two inspirations that I wanted to draw from, which were quite different. A geometric bag design along with a Chinese embroidery throw pillow. This was the pattern I created, again it's leaning towards a lot of detail as to a united design that looks like a pattern. Really had to build off of a line-based design and offset most of it to create the gold embroidery type of line. Wasn't a terrible assignment, got a little frustrated though. But I think it would have been cool to use the surface design onto something or as a render onto a cube or basic 3D item.



3. Reverse Engineered Object
    Simple doesn't mean it's easy. I definitely found that out through this project. Not only did I choose an object that doesn't really come apart, as the screw in the scissors were welded into each other and the handle is shut tight to the blades. Rounding the corners was one of the trickiest parts of creating the scissors. But I later found out it was a simple drop-down menu option that could solve the issue. The other tricky part of this project was creating that sharper blade, it's curved in a weird location and I couldn't wrap my head around which steps to do it in. That took about 2.5 hours to figure out. 




4. Outsourced Wearable Object
    Super fun project! I always wear rings and have always wanted to design one, but I never knew where I could get them made. This idea actually came from my realization of how many vails I own and buy constantly so I thought why not make my own version of a vail as a wearable object. I created it digitally so that it would function as a vail with a hollowed-out interior like a bottle. 
     I did end up ordering the ring, my hopes are that when it gets 3D printed out, it would actually be hollowed out and possibly a functioning bottle. I will definitely add a new blog post and post photos to my Instagram (@acire_art) showing off the ring once it comes in. 



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