Project: Found and Remixed – Intermediate Studio: Real Time 3D

Make a virtual sculpture using up to 3 found models of everyday objects.

– Don’t create a diorama! Use the objects as raw forms, play with scale, color, visual resonances and contrasts.

– It doesn’t have to follow the laws of physics but make it “stand” on the ground (or hang from the ceiling) as if it was an actual installation.

– No characters, no anthropomorphic animals or anthropomorphized things, possibly no creatures at all

Deliver into the virtual museum like the previous assignments.

Exercise I: Glitching hour

You have one hour to find a 3D object online with some baggage or embedded meaning and transform it through distortions, modifiers, and other processes.

– Think about what it means to mess with that particular thing.

– it’s easy to simply glitch out a model. Try to produce a mesh that is still correct and usable: no holes, no self-intersecting surfaces

Exercise II: Mash up

1- Generate a random word – select “nouns”, and don’t reroll, this is about finding unexpected things.
2- Look up the word on sketchfab, checking downloadable.
3- Find a common object (not characters, not scenes, not works displaying a personal style) that interests you due to its symbolic or iconic value. Don’t spend more than 2 minutes scrolling the results.
4- Make a sketch in which you combine it with another object (or two) to create new meanings, visual resonances, or to elicit a specific reaction in the viewer (surprise, hilarity, horror, disgust, reflection, etc…).
5- Repeat the process 3 times.

Post the 3 sketches separately in #assignment

Tutorials

Blender: Help! the model I imported is: untextured/ animated / all joined together in one object / not smooth / too detailed / too BIG / too SMALL / all messed up!

Blender mashups: how do I slice, join, combine objects?

Blender glitching: how do I select things like a pro? How to I join things? How do I edit meshes like they were made of rubber? How do I sculpt? What are modifiers?