For this Omni Animal project I took time to brainstorm my ideas. There were multiples animals and objects I had in mind, and I ended up with a kangaroo as my animal. The way I chose to incorporate the box, was as the kangaroo's pouch. Since the body is larger than the pouch, I sketched the body according to the size of a pouch(box) I wanted. First my kangaroo was too big, reaching a height of over a foot long. Drawing a life size version helped me imagine the look of the animal. Following, I came to the realization that I wanted a hinge box for the pouch; however, if I wanted it to be connected to the main body of the animal, I would have to cut large holes for the hinge to move through. So after talking to my teachers and peers, it was concluded that there would be pegs between the box and the legs to allow flexible space for the hinge. I chose my measurements of the kangaroo pieces with a ruler and normal white paper. By bringing in the scans into AI, I was able to easily convert the drawings into a vector file with the help of a shared tutorial doc. Along the way we completed a pen tool exercise which helped me when it was time to create the cut layer. I chose to raster the fur marks, score the eyes and nose details, and obviously cut the body parts. One problem I had was resizing the tier box file. Since it was originally three boxes connected by hinges, I had to figure out which parts I needed from the top and bottom box to create one hinge box. With help from my teacher I modified my box measurements because since the holes and hinge sizes cannot be moved, only one side of the box could be changed. The hole and hinge placement are contain specific screws and parts that have to stay constant in order for the hinge to work. Therefore, I chose to make it wider and used a rectangle to fit each side to the new measurement. The next step was using the laser cutter to create my omni animal. The parts turned out well, and I really liked the rastering. One difficulty in this project was making a proportional animal because there are many different parts. I used the rastering only on one side, so you can see the animal from a profile view. A designing error I made is the box because I by accident only changed the width of the sides and not the height too, so I have to re-laser the I am using my artistic license in this project because the omni animal looks like a hybrid of different animals, and not just one. In the final steps of creating my omni animal, I glued and screwed the animal together with the hinge box as its pouch. There was one more fault that I had to fix, which was the sizing of the box sides. I had not realized that the measurements for the sides were be a perfect square with the width length on all sides. After they were cut again I glued the box pieces together and used small pieces of the round wood sticks hold the box connected to the animal. Although my omni animal did not turn out exactly how I imagined it, I had fun in the process of making this hybrid animal!
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