To start, my understanding of Remix Culture is to create something from another's work, as a sort of step to randomize and make new the world around us.
I had so much fun with this assignment! There were, admittedly, a few very challenging hurdles that I had to jump (i.e trying to learn Meshmixer, file sizes, and the general dimensions of objects just to name a few). In the end, I was able to overcome these issues and create a series of 11 remixes for you to enjoy.
Disclaimer: All of these titles were created in Tinkercad while the creation was still fresh in my mind. This is a NO JUDGEMENT ZONE :) thank you and enjoy
1. Butter-Deer
As soon as I came across the butter fly I knew that I wanted to change the head. The deer head was the first thing that popped into my mind so I used it. It required a bit of tinkering in Meshmixer (I removed the antenna from the original butterfly and had to decrease the file size for the deer head)
2. Take a drink from my hat
I was wearing a hat at the time of its creation (not a top had sadly) and beside me was the remnants of a smoothie that I had for lunch. The combination of these two worked great. I created the straw in Tinkercad.
3. Rat race
I have a guitar hanging on my wall at home and I am a long distance runner. I thought that the neck of the guitar looked just like a lane for runners so I decided that it might be fun to combine the two. I created the finish line in Tinkercad.
4. Get to the chopper
This idea started with a banana (something that I should have out into my smoothie from earlier but I honestly didn’t want to run to the store just for that). Along with that I remembered a channel that I follow on instagram where the general idea of the content is breaking balloons with random objects (anywhere from knives to banana’s) so I thought it would be an interesting idea to combine the two. Although I wasn’t able to actually find a balloon I found this thing called a ‘LOLCOPTER’ as a substitute and it worked perfectly for what I needed.
5. Fight night
This came as a random thought as I was waking up one morning. admittely it did take a bit longer than normal to make because it was really hard to find a proper shark on thingiverse. The one that I originally had (no matter how much I changed the sizing, etc.) would continuously max out the heigh limit on Tinkercad, thus making it unusable.
6. Paul from sales
This was an idea that was brought about through conversation with a friend. The original character had a full suit as well but I wasn’t able to make that work with thingiverse objects.
7. 2 minutes for charging
From thinking about sports I remembered back to when I used to attend football games with my Dad. The buffalo came from other memories of being with him in Medicine Hat, viewing the Teepee and seeing these beautiful creatures roaming around the valley below us.
8. Plants vs. OBDF 110A
Throw back to the days of playing Plants Vs. Zombies. I used the coffee cup because of the fact that I was drinking coffee at the time of creation. I had to reduce the file size via changing the amount of triangles present in the Peashooter which is why the quality is so tragic. I added the pea being shot out in Tinkercad just to add to the overall effect.
9. Monsieur Bow
The idea for this creation came about while I was watching a friend play as Hou Yi in the video game, Smite. I knew from there that I wanted to make use of the bow and further was pondering on how I would be able to make it into a character. While looking for a bow that Tinkercad would accept (file size and height restrictions seem to be my demise) I came across many bowtie’s -so in a weak effort to design a play on words, I decided to include that as well. Being that I was already into the stages of making this bow into a character I knew it needed some sort of facial structure so I automatically thought about the ‘Groucho Glasses’ with the eye brows and nose. Although I wasn’t able to find exactly that on Thingiverse, I was able to find a pair of the Lorax glasses that worked just as well; thus, making my simple bow in a creature.
10. Fly me to the moon
This idea, admittedly, came about at the same time as the Bow Creature. While still in the mindset of wanting to play with words, I thought about the arrow that is shot from the bow and how it flies through the air. When I think about flying, the first item that I think about are wings. Thus I created an arrow with wings.
11. Wat R Those
This idea was entirely random. I was wracking my brain for something original and all I could think about was a lamp. I immediately looked at my shoes and decided that it would work well as the base (through searching for shoes I was only able to find a set of heels on Thingiverse). If I wanted to make it a lamp I knew that the lightbulb was necessary to complete the idea (oddly enough this was also the only realistic representation of a lightbulb that I was able to find).
Congratulations on reaching the end! I really hope you enjoyed those remixes as much as I did.
Until next time,
renderme3d
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