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Cardboard Modelling

To practise making 3D model using cardboard.

The various methods used to create those objects show different approaches to creating form and design.

Dancing Couple

Made in 22th Feb,2009
Cardboard with colored pins

GIF 150 milliseconds per frame.

One of my favorite cardboard creations. It's a good experiment, even though Steve don't accept this as one of my assignments because he was looking for solide based objects instead of surface based creations.
From one view they look like an abstract dancing couple. The guy wearing a tuxedo (green eye)is leading the lady (red eye) to step forward. From another view it looks like an angel fish swimming past a coral.

I created it without planning it, that's why it's difficult for me to complete cardboard assignments. They are not easy to handle or moulded like clay. Or maybe I just hate cutting and gluing stuff, takes me forever to done them.
I made the lady first and wanted to make it into a solid flower, but it turns out I couldn't do that, so I keep adding stuff until they look visually interesting altogether.

Broken Evergreen Fir Tree

Made in 23th Feb,2009
Cardboard & UHO Glue

GIF 200 milliseconds per frame.

The final cardboard assignment for Steve's class. The tree was supposed to be stood up straight from the very beginning, but it broke down when I almost complete it. So I just let it be since It looks better in that way, gives more diversity in space and shadows.

This exercise was designed with reference images but it failed to come along despite my plannings. So I guess I will have to accept changes during the creation process.

Bear & Me

Made in 25th Feb, 2009
Cardboard & UHO Glue

GIF 200 milliseconds per frame.

Another assignment for Steve's class. Use cardboard to create a solid object involving negative space. It looks like a small person is fighting or having fun with a huge bear in a ring stage from a certain angle. There are only 2 points that hold the heavy piece on the foundation stage. It gives tension to the form as it feels it could became inbalanced and tipped over easily.

The process of creating this is more diffcult than I expect. I was having a hard time to come up with what I want to acheive and just keep cutting and adding pieces as it comes along. Instead of presetting what I want to make I let the pieces come together in their own way. Thus creating such an interesting form without predicting it.