Pepakura Object

My first time trying to do Pepakura wasn't too successful, but after making this one I felt like I could do something a lot better next time. I made an iPad, since i had just gotten one and wanted to see how close I could make them look. I tried to give it more depth but it was harder than I thought (since they're so thin anyways). But I ended up being able to give it some depth, more visible from the back, much like the real iPad.

Sketch up 3D modeling part 1 and 2

For the 3D modeling assignment, I decided to create a soccer ball but make it different by using the fill tool to pattern the white part like grass. The ball itself wasn't very hard after i figured out how to make the lines. it took a while to get used to the program but after I did i enjoyed creating a few different things. I also made a simple pool by just creating a rectangle and using the fill tool to make the side wood paneled and the top water




For my sculpture I decided to just start with an object and see what I ended up with. I started with the birdhouse and noticed because of the size and the roof coming out the sides it looked like a ship or something. So I decided to go with that and see what I could add to it. The turbine engines were my first thought and after attaching those to the undersides of the "wings" I noticed the perch on the front was a bit small and lacking, so I used the pull tool to make it larger and found a mounted gattling gun that fit on it perfectly. Lastly, I decided to make the front brick as a defense option.

This idea was just funny to me because I can imagine this thing whipping around the air terrorizing birds who treated it badly.

Machinima Music Video

For this project. Me and Dan Conroy teamed up to make a music video to one of our favorite songs from our childhood, none other than Jump by Kris Kross. We decided to shoot in a strip club, to fit with the music video theme. We ran into a few troubles (apparently they frown upon shirtless guys in sunglasses dancing on the stage ) but otherwise we had a great time filming it and got some good shots out of it.

Art & the Avatar

1.) What are some of the advantages/disadvantages to creating an Avatar that looks extremely similar to your own personal appearance?

2.) How can an avatar be used as an art tool, or in what ways can modern digital art use avatars to further connect people on a digital level?

Second Life Performance Preposal

For my performance idea, I thought it would be cool for us to all dress stereotypically as a different time period or decade. For example, I'm dressed as somewhat of a "greaser" from the 50's, but it would be cool if we all walked around in a group of different time period people (20's vaudvillian, 30's gangster, 60's hippie, 80's businessman etc)

Second Life Object

 This is my second life object. It looks simple but definitely wasn't! I made a wall (ok well that part was simple) but I decided to play around with different building effects to make something new. So I used the hollow tool to create a opening within the wall, now I had a window but I wanted to make it a bit more realistic than that. So , making another prim I made it the same size as the hole, then adjusted the transparency to make it look like glass, then i moved that into the hollow area of the wall, added a texture, and now I have a real working window (it even catches sunlight differently and gives off reflections) moving the two prims in line was definitely the hardest part of this project.

Second Life Self Portrait

So, this didn't work too well, I eventually figured out that my problem was the sides of my face got way too bumpy which caused the front to kinda get stretched and make me look like Sloth from the Goonies. Next time I need to figure out how to use the clone stamp tool better to make my edges more smooth and get those side textures a lot more do able.