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Brain to Paper - 1.8

    Honestly I think that this step is the most surreal of them all. The fact that we are now taking an idea that was once in our head, creating it in a program that we only learned a few weeks ago, and now taking it so far as to be printed and re-created materially. This whole process is continuing to blow my mind and providing what would be one of the most euphoric experiences I have ever had thus far. This is why art means so much to me, it's a process to make dreams come to life. 

    In other news, the reason that I wasn't able to get this done by Sunday was because of many prior commitments (i.e work and other classes) and the fact that I would have to set aside a 5 hour time frame to be able to print it. Here we are though, 30 minutes to class and I am writing this blog to say that I finally got it 'hot off the press'. This is my process and how it came to be:

    During my most previous drawing class with Paul Hudson, the latest SpaceX launch was about to take place, a historic event that is hard to be overlooked, and rightfully so it seemed to be the main point of conversation. Leaving that class it was all I could think about so I grabbed the closest piece of paper and started writing ideas down for this project.


    Yes that's a paper towel but, hey, I just finished drawing/shading figures so there was an abundance of this around me. I got to work as soon as I had the ideas laid out and it all honestly went very smoothly.




    Going in with very little idea of what a space ship actually looks like, this was what my imagination held. The unfolding process went over pretty smoothly as well, with a few bumps here and there. The biggest struggle in that stage was trying to work around a lot of small pieces as well as finding the most efficient way to lay the various pieces out so that they would fit on an 8.5x11 piece of card stock. The following images are after the 'make2d' function was applied and I was setting them up to be saved as a PDF (hence the numbers underneath to tell me how many of each piece I need).


    Luckily the lady at the printing counter of staples was nice enough to print these on the spot for me.


    I only just got back home and now I am writing this blog post! I am excited to actually put this together to see my creation in life-form!

Until next time
-renderme3d

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