For this week's assignment, I teamed up with Madison and Danielle to create a mini series of standalone "paper dolls." We took this assignment as an opportunity of experiment, and put in lots of effort in order to make things work.
Madison first came up with the idea of making paper dolls. After some more discussion with Danielle, they decided to have their own images engraved on the dolls. They explained the basic process of 2D laser cutting to make up the demonstration I missed due to my absence. Three photographs of us were taken before they were edited in photoshop. The reason we started the editing on Photoshop was because all three of us shared very limited experience on Illustrator, so we thought we might as well start with something we're familiar with, and import the files into Illustrator later on. Madison and Danielle managed to turn our photographs monochrome and they also added filters to make the image look more graphic and less realistic. An outline around each body form was created by me with pen tool in photoshop. Problems occurred as we proceed to the next step: we realized that Illustrator was not able to keep the outline I drew. We had to go back to trace the outline agin in Illustrator in order to create an outline that's vector.
We were lucky to have the support from the staff at thing space and Myers Media Art Studio through out the process, who helped us to correct the digital formatting as well as the measurements. The laser cutting process was fairly quick and convenient, and Kristina from Thing Space offered insight during the laser cutting process and she also suggested a jewelry saw for us to create the slots for our pieces to connect together.
Overall it is a fun experiment as 2D laser cutting is something I've heard about but never had a chance to work with. The process of digitizing and formatting was not easy but it was manageable. I'd love to experiment more with it if I get a chance to work with it again in the future.
It is such an amazing idea. You guys are not familiar with the vector in illustrator, but you find a smart way to deal with your shorts. I love the pose you do an idea of the doll. You are using a very simple step to let the 2D images into 3D. My only suggestion is for the next time, you can measure the thickness of the board and create the vector for interconnection. So you do not have to use the saw.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed seeing this project. I think it is a great, fun concept. It is great that you were able to include a video of the actual laser cut being made because I think it gives an additional layer of understanding to the process of the final piece. To further this you could maybe paint the clothing to add another level of detail to the pieces.
ReplyDeleteHi! With a straightforward idea, it turned out to be a fun and enjoyable project! I am not sure if it's intentionally made or not but the texture that vector created on engraving part seems very interesting!
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