Jenna Object Design

      For our final project we are to make an object that is self supporting and 3D printable, I enjoyed working with my partner, Viet for this project, and the project overall!      These pictures are of my original ideas going into the project, I wanted to use octagon shapes twisted and bent as I thought they appeared the most fun. I played a lot with the polygon command on almost all of my designs and so that is what I brought forward to creating the final object.      This is Viet's object that we chose to model our final design after, we played with octagonal shapes and using the revolve and bend tools to make something fun! while we were creating our object and coming up with ideas we became aware of the fact that this kind of looks like a snail shell, so we built into that concept.           After building into the concept and testing some ideas we managed to make a somewhat final rendition of what we want...

     This project was to make an object modelled in rhino into a paper object in real life, I struggled with the final rendition of this project. I chose to work with a slightly thicker paper than card-stock, and because of this the laser cutter caused a lot of my pieces to just break off when I was folding them. I only chose to do this so I could scale up my object, and so this frustrated me while building. A lot of the pieces that I made originally 3 dimensional, had to be flattened as they kept breaking.

      Over the break I changed my Idea to something a little more light and fun, I remembered my friends and I always used to make jokes and fun designs off of a character named Ryan (a maneless lion) from a emoticon pack called Kakao little friends.       After creating this object I have come to the idea that the design definitely needs to be printed larger as the scale I printed this at was very small and therefore extremely difficult to build. The reason why I didn't print it larger to begin with is the base for the face filled a full sheet of paper so I couldn't re-scale the design.