Module 3 Formstorming

Weekly Activity Template

Exploration of the Self

Project 3

Module 3

This project took a lot of time and trial and error, but I had fun working on it and exploring aspects about myself.

Activity 1

For my first design I wanted to just start drawing rather than gather up some research. I started drawing a circle to represent my social media presence on Discord and my icon being orange on there.

I counted out my most important friends in real life and on social media, making a purple square for each online friend and an orange circle for each real life friend. I added an orange square in the middle to represent myself in both social media and reality.

In the final design I added blue lines to represent my calmer personality with more dynamic and sharp lines to represent the equal parts of chaos and fun that I have.

This was the final design I made. The colors used for the lines are representative of my own favorite colors.

For my second design I opened pinterest to look for inspiration on types of datas that I could use.

On pinterest I found the results of a test that caught my interest and to prepare for my own design I assigned each archetype an attribute for the design.

The test itself asked several questions about who I am as a person and worked as a self-assessment to determine the characteristics I have.

After answering 60 questions about myself, these were my results for the test and what guided my design process for the second icon.

I began by starting with the middle of the design and going outward. My value for the wizard archetype was in the middle and so I chose a shape with the amount of corners that correspond to the value.

The accent shape value was in the middle and so I chose pentagons to represent the value. The amount of accent shapes was high and I placed a lot of them around.

I began to add colors and patterns, choosing the amount of colors and how light they are based on the corresponding values.

I finished off with all the patterns.

I didn't like the solid black outline on everything and erased it to make it look nicer.

This was the final design of the icon.

I put the icon into the 2D mirror code and the layers flew everywhere which wasn't intended.

The webpage with the first 2D design that I did.

The index of images for the code of the second design. It took a few tries to layer them correctly.

When doing my second design I changed the value of the liveliness from 0.5 to see what would happen.

One of the data sets I was considering was the data from my spotify wrapped.

To separate everything into layers I had to go back into photoshop and cut each one out.

The final data set I considered but did not use was the rankings from the most recent 3 month long splatoon season

Another data set I considered using was my youtube music recapped data which had differences in music taste compared to spotify.

While working on the webpage and testing it, my grandma used the website and showed how it worked.

Animated gif of my second design process.

Animated gif of my first design process

Activity 2

Observing the demonstration in class for how to use scanning in scaniverse.

I began to take photos of all the objects I brought using the scanning paper and the desk underneath it. This particular angle I really enjoyed because of how detailed the figure of Aventurine was but I chose to take another later.

A better angle of the figure that shows its depth more. I chose this Aventurine figure because its my favorite character from one of my favorite video games. It was a gift from my mother that made me really happy to have.

Front angle of an amiibo for Splatoon. I chose this object because this game means a lot to me. I play the game competitively and have made a lot of friends from it and wanted to include it somewhere.

Back angle of the inkling. In the later images its easy to tell that the software struggled with getting the back of the figure correct.

Front angle of the cat plushie I brought.

Back angle of the cat plushie. This object means a lot to me because it was the first thing my mom bought for me from my very first gaming convention in Toronto when I was 12.

Cropping the inkling in the scaniverse app.

Using meshmixer I fixed the holes in the mesh on the Aventurine figurine.

I imported the inkling into meshmixer to fix its bottom. The bottom of the figure when I fixed it turned orange which confused me for a while.

I started working on Aventurine in C4D and following the tutorial I flipped him upwards.

I struggled to select the entire bottom of the figure to change its material since the mesh was so dense with polygons, but I eventually got it and added a material to it.

When trying to bake the textures, the model went black when I tried to export it as an obj file. I wasnt able to fix the issue so I exported it as a gltf file.

When importing the cat plushie I was curious what the render would look like so I used the interactive render region periodically as I worked on it.

The plushie had several colour issues from the meshmixer fixes I did and I had to individually select them to give them a material so they could blend in more.

Once I was done, I checked all the models in the 3d viewer online and saw they were all good.

The inkling figures mesh was pretty good and I had to do a few fixes using the sculpting mode in C4D because of how pointy and distorted the figure was.

Checked the inkling model and found no issues with it as I had already ironed out everything when I exported Aventurine.

Front angle of the finished Aventurine figure.

Back angle of the finished Aventurine figure.

The cropped cat plushie in scaniverse after scanning it.

The Aventurine figure after scanning it.

Front angle of the inkling after first scanning it in class. I didnt like the face being so flat and wanted to edit it.

Back angle of the inkling figure in scaniverse with a distorted tank on its back.

Another angle of the demonstration for scanning. I was surprised by how much angles and time you needed to take with scanning a single object, especially because it was so small.

Reflexive Workshop 1 & 2

The summary of the research source that I wrote on google docs.

I chose the source about self-awareness and how to improve it for yourself.

A selfie I did to represent public self-awareness. The eyes and faces in the background represent being watched by the public and the bright light on me symbolizes being in the spotlight during social situations.

Project 3

Final Project 3 Design

The final design took several attempts at printing. For my first print the printer stopped working halfway through and I needed to come back the next day to print it again. Overall, designing and printing my first 3D object was a fun experience.

The final design of my pixelated 3D selfie.

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