Niko's Stuff

Very First Assignment - Build a Building Looking back at this very first assignment I remember how frustrating it was to try and make something in a software I  knew so little about using. If I were to redo this assignment now, it would be a much smoother (and more organized) process, and I would know how to better use reference images to increase accuracy. Project 1 - Laser cutting The laser cutting project was such a blast, and I love how the final piece turned out. I think it's funny how much more intuitive I found Rhino as a vector drawing program than Illustrator, which I was also learning to use at the time. Rhino's incredible snapping system have forever branded my usual Adobe software a tragic disappointment in comparison. Most of the art I do is digital, and I really love opportunities like this project to bring my digital work into the word as a real physical object.  As for doing part of this project differently, I would really just want more practice working in this

Yay, after all the prototyping, a week of being sick and making absolutely no progress, and the painful process of stringing the doll together I finally have a functional spaceman! The project started out with brainstorming and designing the character I wanted to make. Then I modeled all the pieces of the astronaut using simple shapes and added the mechanical features required to put the doll together. I started 3D printing early on in order to have a physical prototype to help assess how all the limbs would work when put together. After a couple prototypes I was able to make the final model, print it, and put together the astronaut. he so cute  (∩˃o˂∩)♡