Assignment 7

Papercraft Objects: Final Revision

   IGLOO (SNOW HOUSE)

Original Snow House:

Rendered view:

Print template:

 

Final Paper model:

Last week's peers' critiques:

Some of my peer feedback for the prototype model was to make it more illuminating and add more detailing. My model had no opening to go inside via the entrance and no windows to make it more realistic. Based on this feedback, I decided to make my igloo paper model using a translucent paper and to add details like ice blocks. The illumination was done from under with  a LED lamp.  I have added more tabs to the leaves to stick from both sides to avoid the shadows as possible with minor shape distortion.Then I extended my tabs to touch the other side of the leaf, which worked quiet well.

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Assignment 6

Papercraft Objects: First Phase Prototypes

IGLOO (Snow House)

                    Inuit people or Eskimos  built shelter of snow. These are built in the shape of an inverted paraboloid or catenoid to compress the pressure. I'm passionate about the Northern Lights,  snow and  Igloos. Getting a chance to spend a day in an Igloo is like a dream come true. The diameter of a normal Igloo is approximately 3m. My model is in ratio 1:24.

                    Using Rhinos I have made 10 different leaf shaped pieces for the Dome and glued them together. I found  this project really fascinating. This idea was inspired from Bryan Cera's Sphere model which was shown in the class.

 

Assignment 5

Papercraft Samples using Rhinoceros 5 

This project was really challenging and time consuming for me maybe due to lack of technical ideas or so. For this I made a toolbox some nuts and nails along with a hammer. Then tried some shapes with polygon which I found really challenging to unfold them.Then made a funny bus and finally a lamp which I couldn't unfold it correctly.

Toolbox

Nut

Hammer

Nail

Box

Shapes with Polygon

Funny Bus

Lamp

Assignment 4

Papercraft Research

The popular form of paper art

Illuminated Cut Paper Light Boxes by Hari & Deepti

Hari & Deepti, aka Deepti Nair and Harikrishnan Panicker, are Colorado-based artist and create amazing, intricate dioramas cut from stiff watercolor paper, which are then illuminated from the back. Inspired by Balinese shadow puppets, they layer cut paper from the foreground to the back to ensure each layer builds on the one before it to create depth and shadow. They have always been drawn towards the imaginative aspect of storytelling.  They believe that “Paper is brutal in its simplicity as a medium. It demands the attention of the artist while it provides the softness they need to mold it in to something beautiful. It is playful, light, colorless and colorful. It is minimal and intricate. It reflects light, creates depth and illusions in a way that it takes the artist through a journey with limitless possibilities.”

They started experimenting with paper cut shadow boxes in 2010 with hand painted watercolor paper which was then cut and assembled in a wooden box to create a diorama, with years of practice their art became more intricate and minimal at the same time. They started experimenting with lights and simplified their pieces by losing the colored aspect of the paper. They have since then evolved to add their own style of paper cut art incorporating back-lit light boxes using flexible LED strip lights. Then they put their layered cut paper sculptures into a shadow box and illuminates the scene with small LED strips. The result is magical-looking illuminated scenes from another world. 

One of the reasons, I chose Hari & Deepti for my papercraft research is the aspect around how their work tells a story  and the simplicity with which it talks to the audience.  Their stories mostly reflect man animal conflicts, local folklore or mankind early attempts at early dominance.  One other interesting observation is how they center the character and then use depth to tell time and distance.  The usage of light to highlight or provide contrast to the characters in the image box.  The contrasting nature of the box in the lit and unlit state also has an effect on the viewers.

Reference:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/03/illuminated-cut-paper-light-boxes-by-hari-deepti/

http://www.blackbookgallery.com/artists/hari-deepti/

Assignment 3

 Water Angel  Refined

                           





                                                             

                              

The original  Thingiverse object

Feedback from Group Discussion

Water Angel was selected based on the feedback on Mesh Mashup Assignment received from my group.  The Angel, the Shark and the Earth went up together well with the title and the concept “Calls for world attention of how the economics of demand-supply during the fish breeding season is causing environmental issues".  This is a mash up of two primary concepts coming from my home state, the first is the exploitation during the official breeding season by mechanized ships and the second concept of "Kadal Amma" (translated as mother of the sea) the local fishing community  belief who venture out into sea on traditional boats that mother will watch over them.Jun-Jul is the official breeding season.

      Remix, mashup, juxtaposing is to create something by borrowing ideas, concepts that are related or unrelated to each other.  Remix culture is defined as the act of rearranging, combining, editing, and adding originals to create something entirely new and is a detriment to the originality and creativity of artists today.  Mashup is a term that originated in the music industry, which refers to song that is combined from two or more songs. Juxtaposition is the act of placing contrasting items close together to compare their differences like juxtaposing light and darkness or juxtaposing God and Satan.  My creation mashes up objects that are not directly but indirectly related.  The shark which is seen as the king or a power figure of aquatic life is on the brink of extinction.  The idea of an Angel that bridges life on land and in water.  The mashup of these ideas hopes to bring out the idea that we need an angel to help  man realize that destroying life under water is detrimental to existence on Earth.