Adventures of Flaskay & CAD

1.)    Sketch a plan for this assignment     a.) what will your object be? (remember to avoid compound curves as surfaces for vinyls)     b.) how will your vinyl traverse the surface of the object?     c.) how might you adjust/tweak your design to speak to the objects form, function or concept? 2.)   Scan or photograph this sketch and post it to your process blog. **parts of this plan could also be mocked up in rhino if you wish** 3.)   Try to incorporate some of the 2D processes from class into your revised design (i.e. arrays, polylines, curves, ellipses and polygons! - also, compound shapes created by intersecting and trimming!) 4.)   Include a response to feedback from peers and the instructor 1. a) The object that I will put the vinyl sticker on will be a wall in the graffiti stairwell. I went scoping out some potential places and was really interested in these walls below:  This is the 4th fl...

Along with each concept, describe the inspiration and how it serves as an "autobiographical" design. 1) This sketch is pretty simple, I wanted to try doing my initials but in a kind of a fancy way. I felt like I could've done something a little more complicated, both visually and conceptually as it is pretty straight forward. But I let it be how it was and see how I could push this further. 2) The second is just a little sketch of mountains with a castle as the reflection. When I was little I saw the mountains a fortress, something both foreboding and comforting. I felt like I could've pushed this idea further as well. 3) This schmancy design is a more calligraphic, updated design from the first one. Again, I wanted to try out representing my initials in a funkier way. 4) This one is lettuce and the word "WEY" written right underneath it. It's a representation of my family's name, aka one of my family's inside jokes and no one really r...

This is the castle I created. Below is a description of my process, the challenges I've faced and how I overcame them :) I started off with a great start! Made some basic shapes (squares and circles) - extruded, capped and layered them to create the base of my castle.  I also started to use the loft tool to create a tapered effect with the central building. At this point I finished up with the loft tool and I finished making the extra tower, using the alt function to duplicate the tower. I started expanding on the base and used the BooleanDifference function to remove the center on the circle I extruded previously. I kept my polylines in the back in case I needed to use them as a reference in the possible future. Here I started playing with the design of what It would potentially look like. I knew at this point I'd want to make it vastly more elaborate. This is where I started running into problems: I wanted to make an archway that I could manipu...