Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Experimenting with 3D

I have started to experiment with making my designs in 3D. I have really enjoyed this, both the process of converting the designs and the making itself. The first thing I did was to try to fix some parts of machines together, to see how the type of design I was doing would work in real life. The concept worked well, and I managed to create some designs that worked, but the pieces were very difficult to fix together. I have tried different types of glue, including a hot glue gun, a solvent glue and an all purpose glue. The hot glue gun sticks the pieces together firmly, but looks messy as I can't apply it accurately enough and the pieces are very small. The other glues tend to fall apart, and the all purpose glue does not seem to dry properly. I need to try some more methods of fixing them together, and work out which method works best for which piece. The next things I made were small latex masks, which worked really well and were very fun to make. I would like to make another of these which is larger so would actually be able to be worn as a mask, and maybe try a few more small ones to play with colour and texture.

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