FMX 213 - 3D Printing and Modeling

      Thankfully, this strange little horse statue was the only thing I've printed all semester that didn't mess itself up at some point during the process. It's very strong, and the smaller details look much better on the actual printed version than in the 3d modeling program. I think that's probably because of the scale and material smoothing over my more obvious rough spots. The hooves printed very nicely, which makes the entire thing look that much funnier to me. I'm glad that I nixed some of my shoddier sculpted aspects to use the pre-modeled horse legs, ears, and human head. It almost looks like it could be an actual statue. Almost.    The purpose of my idea was mostly to take the power away from these controversial figures in history. So many of these monuments were made of confederate soldiers whose prime purpose was to rip the country apart to keep their slaves. As such, it's no wonder that seeing recreations of their image is uncomfortable

Wasn't quite sure how I was going to pull this idea off when I first started it. I knew it'd be pretty much impossible to model the idea fully using just autodesk fusion. I figured it'd probably be an easier idea to start with a bunch of basic shapes down first and work from there. I had a saddle on E Lee's back when I first sketched the image, but I wasn't actually sure how to make something like that visible. I'm kind of sad I had to scrap that. It was pretty funny. The first go of the modeling came out a bit strange because the horse has no determinable features, and the man just... didn't get a head.               After moving everything into mesh mixer, I realized that meshmixer wasn't going to do what I wanted it to. That was fine. At this stage in my artist career I'm used to 70% of the steps being some form of bullshitting. The sculpting tools were a bit wonky, so it took a while to get things into the general shape I was kind of goin

Camille Utterback is an artist that works with interactive and digital mediums. Many of her pieces involve movement technology in order for the audience to change what they see. She also uses LED lighting in many of her projects, showcasing how light and color bounce off of certain objects. Her artwork captures people's attention longer than most exhibits would, because of the way human influence effects the overall outcome. Personally, I always found interactive exhibits more interesting than simply a hall of instillation or pictures. It showcases that art can actually be enjoyable for both the creator and their intended audience. Plus, it usually doesn't involve the museum goers having avid knowledge of different artistic movements and styles, and instead just focuses on the pretty colors and technology. I found a lot of her pieces very interesting, but my favorite was tied between Radiant Cache and Light Field. Both of these utilize large glass planes reflecting light that

The previous concept I had wound up being far too difficult for me to even sketch, let alone try to actually model (and you can see the remains of it in the top left corner there). When I was looking into more traditional confederate monuments and statues, I noticed that most of them wound up being famous soldiers on horseback. This makes sense, seeing as how they were in fact on horseback during those battles and those poses were generally seen as a sign of strength. However, I couldn't help but put together what I consider the obvious next step to that: the horse riding the soldier. Of course, I can't draw horses either, so this should be an interesting project, to say the least. Hoo boy.                I don't actually think simply trying to demolish the statues entirely will do much in the long run. It's still important to remember our countries terrible history without raising these people up as heroes with their own statues (Robert E Lee in particular is s

First of all, I'd like to thank you for assigning this project so I had the excuse to make something like this. It brings me an immense amount of joy to see these little crabs chilling on my desk now.   Technically, both the yellow and pink ones didn't print fully, but the pink one is still capable of standing up on its own and looks fine from the front. The red one was split in half and printed perfectly, but is a little too small to actually hold my tablet pen. He holds regular pencils just find though. I couldn't bear to get rid of the yellow one either. He's just doing his best.  Fusion was objectively a lot less difficult to use than I thought it was going to be. I can see the differences between it and Maya a lot better now, although I doubt I'll be doing much 3D printing on my own time outside of college (those machines are expensive). This was a fun project though, and exploring the new fab lab was cool too. 

This is Jarold. He's my best friend and I love him dearly.  Finishing him was relatively easy seeing as how he's identical on both sides. Mirroring stuff is painless in fusion, which I am eternally grateful for. Seems like he's going to print for a really long time (and the time was almost double without lowering the amount of layered material) but it'll be worth it. Hopefully he'll at least be printed by the time the open house happens tomorrow so other people can appreciate him.