Monday, June 20, 2011

Project 3 in totality

Project 3 was about making some sort of proposal and was to include an animation fly-through. I chose to get lost between proposing a product and proposing an idea, so I ended up with a product used to facilitate an idea.

I've always been fairly interested in gold brush plating with a simple electrolysis machine. What if you could build a portable low voltage brush plating widget into a glove? What doors would that open for expression? I am intrigued with the idea of plating objects people normally don't think to plate, then doing it in public with bystander's unaware, maybe even as a form of strange vandalism that will restart the discussion of wether it's considered vandalism if you actually increase the dollar value of an object.

The animation video is far to large to consider posting here, but here are the screenshots.









Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Project 2, Continued



To the left: Traced Creeper that didn't work out.

To the right: Drawn from scratch Creeper. Totally working out.

Monday, June 6, 2011

See? This is what happens when you import and try to trace.
Minecraft. I'm not going to try and wiki you through what it is ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft ), but I will say that the current idea is based on the 'Creeper', an iconic monster from the game. It's tactic is to simply sneak up behind you and explode. Before it does so it makes a very recognizable sound. This bit of aurial goodness is the pyschological warfare embeded into the game. You are slowly (quickly) programed to FEAR this sound. This is the sound of impending doom. It sounds like someone lit gunpower on fire. It's a momentary hiss before your handy-work is demolished. I feel a need to create a model that transmits this sound and is small enough to hide. Maybe.