We spent most of today tracing our pieces of various dog parts on Rhino. We started by figuring out what our dimensions of each piece would be in inches, since that was the unit most accesable to us at the time and made it easier for us to picture the size. We were then told to work in centimeters on rhino, so we had to change our inches to centemers,rounding our exact exchange as close as we could to the origional size. After spending most of the day drawing on rhino and trying to ensure that our sizes of our shapes would be correct, we went to print our pieces on the lazer printer. We intended to have 5 layers of the body, 2 layers on each leg, and 3 layers on the head and a neck piece that would creat a good transition from the body to the head. We were going to have the legs move by putting a rod through the body and both legs on either side. Unfortunately, something went wrong with some of the measurements and the neck piece ended up being bigger than the entire dog and the legs ended up being too long. We were able to cut off the tops of the legs but the neck piece had to be scrapped. At the end we ran out of time, but from what we have it looks like it couldve been a very cute dog!

For tonights daily sketch I drew my water heater and the shelves and pipes around it.

For this sketch I choose to draw a picture of a spatula being used while frying eggs. I also included the stove in my drawing so it had a background

Today we learned how to use Rhino to make 2D shapes. We worked on creating shapes, cutting and trimming shapes, changing the size of shapes, and copying shapes. We also learned how to enter commands. Using these skills we aquired we started to make 2.5D creatures. This meant that the creatures were 3D, but made out of 2D shapes. We split into groups to work on this project. My group decided to make an octopus. We decided that we would have the tentacles controlled in a way similar to the way people controll puppets. We agreed that the head of the octopus would be made of a flat piece of cardboard in the shape of an octopus head with circles around it to make it 3D. Tommorw we will start to model the parts of the octopus on Rhino.

Today we modelled our Octopus using Rhino. FIrst we drew all of the pieces we needed in 2D, then we extruded thoose piece so they represented the cardboard. After that we assembled all the pieces in Rhino. Then we made all the pieces 2D again so we could laser cut them. We then could assemble the pieces creating our octopus, who we named Tommy. We used notches and string to assemble the octopus. The octopus' legs move. Hopefully we will be able to attach string so that someone can controll the octopus like a puppet.

Today we spent the whole day working on our butterfly in Rhino. We first created circles for the body that started at 4 mm diameter and increased by .5 and back down again, but we then changed the shape of the butterflys body as a whole. After we created it Rhino we laser pronted all 25 circles and attached them to a string in the order that created the shape of the butterflys body. We then created the wings on Rhino and will print them tommorow and assemble the whole butterfly. 

Last night, I sketched myself taking a selfie and what the whole background looked like. 

This is a sketch of a can opener in action. 

Today we learned how to use illustrator. This is my rubik's cube version. 

Today we worked with fusion. At the end of the day we chose a tool from the workshop and re-created it on fusion. This is as far as I got.