Tuesday 2nd October

3DCP (3D Design & Contemporary Practise)

The tutor was going over some of the areas that are covered through 3D, This is some of a few that I didn’t realise it covered:

• Furniture Design
• Technical Effects /Model Making/Design for Performance
• Packaging Design
• Vehicle Design
• Interaction – when going round a museum and pressing buttons and screens pop up, an iPhone could be one also a playground – easier for human element.

Architecture – they aren’t 7 years courses, they are normally 3 years, but then go into employment.

Interior Architecture – Looks at space, structures that exist, movement and light.

Exterior Architecture – new builds, how to build them, city / town planning.

The morning was going over a presentation about what 3DCP consists off. I did find it interesting, and I feel like it looks like a good course, the more digital aspects of it such as game art was really interesting about how things can be created.

Fine Art doesn’t have a course, but 3DCP should be the course if you wanted to do that.

The second activity of the day was creating a structure out of spaghetti and a hot glue gun. This structure will have to hold 3 plastic balls. The balls aren’t allowed to touch each other, the balls have to be removable and the balls aren’t allowed to be cut.

This activity is a try and error. Not everyone is going to be able to use the glue gun at the same time, so we can have use blue tack to practise a structure and plan the structure before actually creating it. It seems like out of the box thinking activity. We also had to take photographs of the sculptures with the 3 balls in-front of white screens. This way we could play with lighting and shadows and test out our structures.

After this, I put paper around the structure to protect it from a basket ball. My structure didn’t last, but it was quite fun to watch.

I found this quite enjoyable, and as I didn’t overthink the task, I felt it worked in my favour because I was able to be free in what I was doing. I felt like it was out of my comfort zone, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought the task was when it was getting explained. I did worry, but I tried to keep calm because I knew that thinking could ruin the final product.

I have included all the photographs that I have taken today in my sketch book because I felt like it would be more presentable in my sketchbook.