3D Final Portfolio - Owes Productions

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CUBE

For this assignment, I was tasked with creating an object/form that fits inside an 18 x 18 cube and touches all sides of it. In the previous two weeks I had created 4 smaller variations for this project; however, I did not choose to recreate one of them for the larger version. While critiquing the second set of 9 x 9 boxes, I began wondering if I could create a vehicle that would fit inside the imaginary box. As a big Star Wars fan, I decided a Tie Fighter would best fit the parameters of the assignment. With a 5-day trip ahead of me, it was my best course of action for the very small work window I had available. On Monday evening, I worked for about 3 hours to create an 18 x 18 Tie Fighter out of cardboard. When I presented this work for critique, I went downstairs to the basement and found a plexiglass case to display my creation. Instead of placing the Tie Fighter on top of this casing, I placed the “aircraft” on the floor and put the clear casing over top as if it were a collector’s item. This presentation was a mix of luck and quick thinking. However, I believe it amplified my very simplistic design.

STILTS

Project 2 challenged me to find a way to hold my weight with a cardboard structure that holds me at least 18 inches off the ground. For the smaller version of this, I made stilts that worked successfully in the critique, so I planned on making the same thing again, but a little taller, for the final version of it. The biggest issue I had was finding a way to make it stable enough at 18 inches high without any sturdy support material. When I tested them in the classroom, they worked, barely. When I got to the critique and tested them, they failed miserably.

WOOD

My rendition of the wood intervention project features a long, hanging structure made out of only right angles. In an attempt to make a piece that fit into the limited time table I was provided with, I changed a few concepts about my design throughout production to speed up the workflow and enable proper balance and weight distribution on my final piece. Being a hanging piece, I was forced to think about the counterweight at the top of it and having enough material to keep this structure from falling forward on itself. For this reason, I shifted the lower part of my structure to hang almost directly below the hook at the top.

EGG DROP

This project was inspired by the popular egg challenge that is featured in some school curricula. I put my own touch on it by carrying on with my cube idea and making a spaceship to hold the egg inside. The element of experimental drops still stayed the same, as I went to the balcony of the art building to launch my small cardboard aircraft into the sky. The first throw was somewhat successful, with a week-old, hard-boiled egg from the dining hall only suffering a small crack. The group insisted I drop it again, and on the second drop, the egg met a much different fate when the cardboard caught the wind and evidently a tree. This launched the egg out of the ship and directly into the ground, which was not grass but rocks. It is safe to say the egg, even though hard-boiled, could not survive that one.