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I, Object Assignment.   The first show for the object design department at Auarts, I, Object, is  a pleasure. I spent much of my time chatting with the other students at this closing show, reflecting mostly on how much this program has evolved post-pandemic. I signed up for object design in my first year in 2021, and after reading the description, I was overly confident that I was signing up for a self-directed ceramics or sculpture course. Of course, on the first day of class, when everything was online, I realized that I would be designing objects using CAD. Honestly, I was livid. I was sure that I was going to be a purely traditional artist who focused on the discipline of painting and drawing. Spoiler alert: object design is now my minor, so its safe to say I changed my mind. Having been a traditional artist, however, the first few weeks were absolute hell, and the learning curve was embarrassing. Yikes..... I, Object, managed to capture the essence of what drew me into o...
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  Final Bespoke Object. This drawing, a second bespoke creation honed in on my drawing practice and my research into eco-feminism, ecology and technology. This creation is the first traditional sculpture I have made in my time at AUArts, which is funny because I will be graduating in May.  This sculpture will explore the materials of sculpting in 3D software's such as mesh mixer, and its translation onto a 3D print bed. I aim to embrace the material quality of a 3D printed object, with its ridges and texture being quite distinct from any other form of fabrication. This embrace of materials is crucial to the content of the sculpture because I will focus on the concept of objectifying women and their bodies by quite literally objectifying my body through 3D scans and printing.  I have often found myself creating objects in this class simply because it will be fun or because I think it will be cool, but rarely have I been able to find an intersection between my object design...

Project updates

A few updates for this week! I successfully printed the first half of the project. The print took roughly 14 hours and required no supports other than a brim. Because of this, the print turned out to already smooth and needed no further sanding or prep. This made my life so much easier, and the job much easier for the printer as well. I think that this is incredibly uncanny, and especially because it is to scale it is very strange.  Images of finished product #1: I also feel that the4 hardware on the print will also work well with hanging materials such as hooks and nails. Despite this however, there are still several setbacks, initally I scheduled my print for thursday, but I ended up going over my bookings time and so, I needed to cancel. That brought be to saturday, which was the next time I had prepared for the printing of the arm. However, the lab RAN OUT of fillament! I didn't expect this to happen but unfortunately, production will have to be moved to this following week. Th...

project 2 updates

  This weeks updates This week has been hectic. I fell behind for a moment there and I even considered abandoning my project completely. There were several times that I sliced my objects on Prusa and realized I had nearly 30 hours of printing ahead of me. This was daunting, yet, it did appear that the face would be no issue on the printer so long as no other students interfered or any other inconceivable thing could happen. I decided to fire up the prints and walk away, for my sanity.  I also had a considerable amount of modelling ahead of me, with the issue of my scans having several holes in them. At first, I considered using a powerful system such as blender to remedy the designs and doing my best to follow tutorials online for the clay tools, but, after a lot of struggle I ultimately chose to return to mesh mixer, even if it was a lesser version after a THREE year hiatus.  The process absolutely had its growing pains. Time after time I experimented with each brush to ...
  Project Two Updates After completing the first scan I can now confidently say that the face scan went off without a hitch1 YAY! the process was much quicker that I had initially expected and I will be able to send it off to the slicer and edit my setting to get the ideal print. As it stands the time will take is likely around 16 hours of printing, which for using a model of this size is not terrible on the Prusa XL. Overall, it is smooth sailing for now, with very little setbacks. Although the scan had gone beautifully for the face, there always has to be something. I am somewhat upset because the scan for the arm did not work out as intended, there are some problem areas unfortunately and the mesh should likely be touched up. Ideally, this could be something in blender that I can use the clay tools for, but my knowledge of the system is incredibly limited. I will make sure to chat with Bryan about this and see if I can enlist some help here to learn how to do this. At worst, the...