kaiwyns

 For this week we worked on our final version of our papercraft object. After feedback from the class, I (naturally) decided to redesign Bonnie all over again. I felt that there were lots of things to be improved upon and that overall my design didn't look like Bonnie all that much. So, I directly referenced a photo of Bonnie and drew out a flat version of my final design.  I then inserted this image into rhino to reference while making the new concept. Sadly, a few of the details i wanted to add didn't work out so I didn't add an indentation to the mouth, and I couldn't find a material that I felt was good enough to create the eyes that I wanted.  Overall, i was satisfied with the new design, as I simplified it a lot, but I think all the changes made work better and look cleaner than the last. The process this time around was much easier thanks to having sturdier paper, larger tabs, and less pieces. I actually had a lot of fun making this and seeing the final result is...

 For this week we had to fully assemble our first prototype of our papercraft design. I enjoyed scoring and cutting all the various pieces but gluing everything together? Not my cup of tea. I found through my process of gluing it all together that I had made my shapes too complex, and having so many sides and angles to a piece was very hard to work with, especially when gluing by hand. I had to slightly alter some pieces as now that they were unfolded, there were slight gaps and the paper wouldn't line up.  The first altercation was to fix the top tabs on the main headpiece and on the top ear pieces. The mouth piece when printed had some issues as well, the top separate piece no longer lined up with the main part of the mouth, for the prototype I just cut some of the paper away, but I will probably simplify how many angles there are in certain areas. The nose turned out fine but the eyes I realized were much too complex and were extremely hard to glue down onto the head later ...

 For this assignment I ended up refining one of my ten originals into a much more complex shape thanks to being shown a great method in class, where using polygons to create more rounded appearing objects. Since I decided to remodel one of my objects, there aren't a ton of details going on within the work, but I do want to add many through single layers of paper stacked on each other for the final.  I liked this new shape much more than the previous design, and giving the head the dome shaped eyes I think makes it sort of creepy as well. I want to take this another step further though and possibly add a movable jaw, and make this to scale to fit my head. As this first prototype isn't big enough because I made it so the largest head piece fit on one page of paper, but to fit y head it'll have to be a fair amount larger, so I'll try to figure out the scaling for that. I'm decently satisfied with how the prints look and I'm really looking forward to cutting and pas...