Assignment
-plan and sketch a potential final project
-model (raster, vector, 2D, 3D, render, animate, simulate, ...) a possible final project, and post it on your class page
Goal
I am keen for my projects to be dinosaur-based when possible. In turn, my vision for a final project is a dinosaur with some level of functionality.
Initial Ideas:
Cast soft-robot
Programmable actions?
Skin variations?
Responsive skin?
Responsive to basic emotions - ‘I’m sad’ or ‘I’m happy'
Swarming capabilities with other dino friends
Potentially an entire army of dinosaurs!
Steps
1. To start, I rendered four of the potential dinosaurs! I started by drawing an outline of four individual dinosaurs (triceratops, ankylosaurus, stegosaurus, and brachiosaurus) in Illustrator. I googled a bunch of images and tried to identify the key aspects of each dinosaur that allowed identification. For example, on the ankylosaurus, it’s the low profile and myriad of spikes and for the triceratops, it’s the three horns and large frill. I kept the body and legs the same and changed just the tail, head, and spike design. I then imported the drawings into Rhino to form a three dimensional version of each dinosaur. In anticipation of the parametric design, I kept the drawings similar to an internal bone structure as opposed to a skin-covered body.2. I then rendered the drawings using VRay! Rendering took a few minutes and I adjusted the light source a few times to try to optimize the effect of the bone-like structure.
Struggles
Smoothing and then rendering in Rhino/VRay takes time, especially if you aren't a pro. I asked for a lot of help, made a lot of failures, and am not sure if I could recreate this file from scratch! I tried to pull up the history of commands, but because I closed the file numerous times it is erased, but that would be interesting to see the evolution from drawing to rendering.Tools
Rhino 5Grasshopper
Weaverbird
VRay
Friends
Source Files
Link to Dinos in RhinoLink to Dinos in Rhino in Grasshopper