Lanter Project

For my Lanterns Project I decided to go with a New York city type of theme. I used wood to make the box, paper to make a hollow glow effect with the RGB lights and foamboard to hold the paper up. I laser cut the paper and wood. I used an x-acto knife to cut the foamboard. There are 6 layers in my lantern: the first 5 layers are made of notecard and the last layer is made out of a thin sheet of paper. This allowed more RGB light to come through the back of the box but, not over light the scene. The RGB lights I used are battery powered.

Layers Project

For my Layers Project, I was inspired by the diorama artworks demonstrated in class. More specifically the forest dioramas. My design was based off using color saturations to create a forest scene. The outer boundaries of my piece are acrylic, and the trees are wood. I used green acrylic paint with black and white acrylic to create the 3 different types of saturation values of green. I wasn’t able to create last part of this piece which was to create the stary background because I broke my model and had to start from the beginning. Overall, I think my piece looks great considering I had to redo it.

Altered Toys Project

For my Altered Toys Project, I created a toy turtle. I used baby dragon from YU-GI-OH! as inspiration. I thought it would be cool to create a baby version of a mythical creature. I used the dragon turtle as reference and created a dragon baby turtle. I 3D modeled this project in Nomad which is a 3D modeling software on the IPAD. It was my first time using the software, so there were some bumps along the way but, overall, it went well. I painted my model using green, brown, white and brown acrylic paint. This project went relatively smoothly because a fellow classmate printed my model who has experience printing 3D models. I wanted to print it out but, the que for the printing was 9 days. I would like to thank her for her help!