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?
Also check the lattice modifier, which I forgot to mention
Examples
![](http://mycours.es/gamestudio2022/files/2022/08/lobster-telephone.jpg)
Shape analogy, mimicry (as in an object tries to be something else), Sculptural mashup, Natural / artificial contrast.
![](http://mycours.es/gamestudio2022/files/2022/08/default-683x1024.jpg)
![](http://mycours.es/gamestudio2022/files/2022/08/man_ray_cadeau2_1_master-1-1024x683.jpg)
Making a functional object unusable
![](http://mycours.es/gamestudio2022/files/2022/08/Jana-Sterbak-Sisyphus-Sport-1997-Foto-Gregor-Sailer-b10a73-original-1488280527-1024x683.jpg)
Making a non functional object “usable”
![](http://mycours.es/gamestudio2022/files/2022/08/Au-Naturel.jpg-1024x801.jpeg)
Innuendo, abstraction, “portraiture”.
Can you make a portrait with objects?
Glitching reality
![](http://mycours.es/realtime3D/files/2023/09/oldenburgandvanbruggen_softviola-scaled.jpg)
Beetle Sphere by Ichwan Noor
![](http://mycours.es/realtime3D/files/2023/09/8.-Yellow-Vocho-Margarita-Cabrera-1024x686.jpg)
![](http://mycours.es/realtime3D/files/2023/09/1031717-jpg-100-original.jpg)
![](http://mycours.es/realtime3D/files/2023/09/2015-stadt-ist-der-star_truck_001-scaled.jpg)
Straightforward digital processes applied to traditional crafts and materials
![](http://mycours.es/realtime3D/files/2023/09/glitch-laviani-1.jpg)
![](http://mycours.es/realtime3D/files/2023/09/glitchrug.jpg)
![](http://mycours.es/realtime3D/files/2023/09/opening_hr_053-1024x682-1.png)
![](http://mycours.es/realtime3D/files/2023/09/han-hsu-tung-pixelated-wood-sculptures-designboom-001.jpg)
![](http://mycours.es/realtime3D/files/2023/09/HsuTungHan_TwoUp-1024x723-1.jpg)