Week 10

Thur, Nov 14 CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class, I printed out the wood. Next class Im going to glue and paint thing where I want to put them.

Thur, Nov 14 HW – image of completed homework

No hw

Tue, Nov 12  CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class, I finished outlining the letters and experimented with the cd coming out of the box. I also began to move the frames into separate documents that are the scale of the wood. Next class, Im going to print it and I plan on painting to add color and dimension to the album.

Tue, Nov 12  HW – image of completed homework

no hw

Week 9

Fri, Nov 8 CW – image of work completed in class

today in class I worked not eh album cover and came up with the idea of just doing the album in a square box. I will use the laser cutter and have the bear “floating” by putting a stick in the back so it is popping out of the Frame giving it more of a 3d-look.

Fri, Nov 8 HW –  image of completed homework

no hw

Wed, Nov 6 CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class, I completed my shadow boxed and glued it together and began the next project. (graduation album-kanye)

Wed, Nov 6 HW – image of completed homework

No hw

Mon,  Nov 4    CW – image of work completed in class

In class today, I connected my shadow box and decided to add more detail to the front tree through patterns. I added the patterns and engraved the pattern and next class will finish printing it out.

Mon, Nov 4  HW – image of completed homework

No hw

Week 8

Thur, Oct 31 CW – image of work completed in class

In class today, I glued the ring of the moon to the back, removed the excess paper from the frame, and glued my frame together.

Thur, Oct 31 HW – image of completed homework

no hw

Week 7

Fri, Oct 25 CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class I printed out the holes for my button moon and connected the pieces for my border.

Fri, Oct 25 HW – image of completed homework

no hw

Thur, Oct 24 CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class I made my frame for my shadow box.

Thur, Oct 24 HW – image of completed homework

No homework

Tue, Oct 22  CW – image of work completed in class

In class, I was able to use the exact knife to get out the tree I printed from last class. I also printed out all of my final wood layers and worked on coming up with solutions on how I am going to give the moon a button and transparent look.

Tue, Oct 22  HW – image of completed homework

For homework I connected coraline to the land.

Week 6

Fri, Oct 18 CW – image of work completed in class

During class, I printed out two of my layers and started connecting the coraline layer to the ground because I thought that anything printed of paper could “float around,” which is incorrect. therefore, the moon will be transparent illuminating onto all of the other figures. My first cut did not go all the way through, but there is a chance I will be able to cut out the shapes rather than fully reprint.

Fri, Oct 18 HW –  image of completed homewor

No hw- finished in class

Wed, Oct 16 CW – image of work completed in class

In class, first I made my tree details less intricate for printing and decided to separate the moon and the land. Then I did a test print and fixed the areas that were too thin as well as areas on my other layers that would possibly be too thin.

Wed, Oct 16 HW – image of completed homework

For homework, I connected the shapes to the borders and extended the trees so I am ready to print.

Mon,  Oct 14    CW – image of work completed in class

In class we did woodshed work and started making our frames for our mandalas.

Mon, Oct 14  HW – image of completed homework

I connected all of the pieces to make it ready to print. I was thinking that I would make the button/land and the trees wooden with light shining through the holes and small crevices, while coralline and the cat would be transparent.

Week 5

Thur, Oct 10 CW – image of work completed in class

Initially, I made a house for my last layer, but decided it didn’t fit in with the design and was a little too intricate, so I decided to replace it with a tree and began to edit my deign for the laser cutter.

Thur, Oct 10 HW – image of completed homework

Completed survey.

Tue, Oct 8  CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class I worked on a more defined drawing, and then proceeded to illustrator to start my finalized design and layering.

Tue, Oct 8  HW – image of completed homework

For homework, I worked on two new designs and decided which design I wanted to do for my shadow box.

Week 4

Fri, Oct 4 CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class I reprinted and glued the bottom of my box, glued my mandala, and began to come up with ideas for my shadow box.

Fri, Oct 4 HW –  image of completed homework

No homework

Wed, Oct 2 CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class I printed, saw dusted, and glued my box, but the bottom was too small.

Wed, Sept Oct 2 HW – image of completed homework

For homework, I worked on the wooden pencil box by redoing the outline from Mondays class and changing the offset/thickness to 0.125 rather than .16.

Mon, Sept 30  CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class we worked on how to use rhino and how to make ways for pieces to be connected.

Week 3

Fri, Sept 27 CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class I printed out my top layer and stained both the top and bottom.

Fri, Sept 27 HW –  image of completed homework

no homework

Wed, Sept 25 CW – image of work completed in class

Today during class I printed out my top two layers and sawdusted the bottom and middle one then I painted my middle layer. I have to reprint my top layer because one of the pieces broke.

Wed, Sept 25 HW – image of completed homework

No homework-Design finished.

Mon, Sept 23  CW – image of work completed in class

This class I started with paint combinations. Then, I printed a piece of my mandala to ensure it wasn’t too small and printed out the entire third layer.

Mon, Sept 23  HW – image of completed homework

For homework, I worked on filling empty space and connecting the pieces. I also made it available to laser cut. (Late because I was unable to upload initially.)

Week 2

Thur, Sept 19 CW – image of work completed in class

Today in class I worked on making my own mandala with the help from the video yesterday. I focused a lot of making sure everything was connected and the rotate tool was extremely helpful.

Thur, Sept 19 HW – image of completed homework

For homework I watched the video and recreated the layered mandala. I learned about the importance or connecting certain objects so it remains in tact while being laser cut as well as how to add more decorations to designs, specifically mandalas, to take away the simplicity. When I went to copy the layers, it kept making new blank layers so I was not able to move towards the pathfinder steps and on and will need help with that specific step during class.

Tue, Sept 17  CW – image of work completed in class

I worked on the sample mandala Mr. Brodie showed in class and used the laser cutter to cut it out. This helped in understanding line weights, more specifically what is too thin. I also started the homework and began to make process utilizing layers.

Tue,, Sept 17  HW – image of completed homework

For homework I watched the video and followed the steps to learn about different/new tools and resources that will be useful in created mandalas and other designs. I also learned a lot about the grid and centering objects as well as how to copy/paste and move objects around in an organized, clean fashion.

Week 1

Sat, Sept 14 CW – image of work completed in class

The printer was not working for me during class-came back Monday consult.

(Monday Consult): When putting the text to a smaller scale, the the lines were too thin for the laser cutter. If it would’ve cut all the way through it most likely would have burned.

Sat, Sept 14 HW – image of completed homework

no homework

Thur, Sept 12  CW – image of work completed in class

I took out the fill of the letters, worked on connecting and grouping my letters and hearts as well as adding a pattern fill. I also fixed the shape of the hearts by tracing to make it one shape instead of multiple shapes together.

Thur, Sept 12  HW – image of completed homework

I worked on my second design by organizing my letters specifically how I wanted them to be and cut/adjusted certain letters to better the heart placement and stacking the two words on top of one another.

Tues, Sept 10 – image of completed classwork

I worked on coming up with two designs and how I wanted the words to go together/connect. I was able to complete my first one and start my second.