Cinema 4d

i wish i had more time to work on stuff since we cant save on demo versions, so these things are unfinished i would of wanted to make them cooler but i guess it doesnt matter. Im having a difficult time making a shoe and getting it to be smooth, so i decided to just make what i wanted. Its a man trying to row up a river the opposite way.

Cinema 4d

i wish i had more time to work on stuff since we cant save on demo versions, so these things are unfinished i would of wanted to make them cooler but i guess it doesnt matter. Im having a difficult time making a shoe and getting it to be smooth, so i decided to just make what i wanted. Its a man trying to row up a river the opposite way.

Cinema 4d

We started working with cinema 4d which we messed around with last semester but im glad we're getting more in to it because im starting to like it. I think cinema 4d is awesome because you can take a painting or drawing you did and see how it would look in a 3d state, which is really cool. EVeryone in our class is making some really cool stuff and especially that one guy who made that really realistic shoe, that was amazing and it would be great to be able to do that eventually. I made some beekers but i printed them out i dont have them on the comp. When i first started out using the program it took me a shitload of time to do simple stuff because i didnt realize the shortcuts which make things easier now. I prefer making scenes rather than seperate independent objects so i messed around and did that for a while. this is what i made.

Paper clayhayhay

My paper clay shoe is a sea monkey. I grew some sea monkeys at the beginning of the semester and they lasted a long time. Then i cleaned the ones that didnt make it out, and then they all just kicked the bucket. But anyway i decided to make it out of card board. I experimented on how to bend the board until i got a shape that resembled a shoe but not completely which didnt matter. THe basic structure was made out of cardboard and then the other details i decided to use duct tape all bunched up, for example the volume of the lips and eyes. For the head and those rod things that come out i crumpled up news pape and then put tape around it until it was really strong. Then i paper mached the thing and did a bunch of layers i tried to make it really smooth. Then i put 3 layers of paper clay on it, and added texture and other little details that gave it a personality. I would recommend growing sea monkeys to pretty much anyone.

Grinch shooooeee

The next shoe was the plaster shoe which i liked making. I decided to cut out the base of the shoe from styrofoam and then use a wire armature, i like making armatures out of wire a whole lot. so what i did was map out the basic frame of the shoe and i cut various pieces of wire and spent time attaching them to each other. The frame was made of simple half circles and straight wire lines. After that i cut out 3 semi circles from styrofoam that decreased in size and width and mimicked the base of the shoe, this gave it shape and made the frame more sturdy once i attached it to the semi circles. Theeennnn i cut out sheets of that brown pape and plastered it. The fun part was making it textured with paper towels and plaster. then i painted it. It reminds me of the grinch's shoe, and i think its funny.

elf shoe

Working with paper was fun times but at the same time it was frustrating that something so flexible and thin is hard to make curves with. Sometimes the paper just wouldnt do what you were trying to make it do, and it would crease and fold in weird ways. Im sure if we worked with paper more or were origami masters this probably wouldnt of been a problem. For my next paper shoe i decided i wanted to make an elf shoe. I first made the base, and then drew a smaller version inside of that leaving about 1 cm perimeter. Then i tore it around the perimeter at areas where it needed to bend and folded it upwards. I then a curved plane to the perimeter for the back of the shoe and then the rest i overlapped and futzed around with until it worked. Then to get the curl i crumpled up the pape and shaped it. I Made the buckle by folding a bunch of pape together and then cutting out the center. Then i added the fluff part with a lot of shredded pape, also at the end of the curl. Im gonna post pics once i get a hold of a camera because i dropped mine off of a 200ft cliff when my pal pretended to push me off. yeah that sucked.

Clown times

MY FIRST SHOE
My first shoe was a clown shoe that i made out of paper bags and comics. I used the "funny pages" since it was intended for a clown. I made the shoe in a Guess and Check sort of style, without really measuring or making precise accurate parts. Instead I eyed the parts and worked on the shoe as an entire object instead of seperate pieces. My favorite part about making things is getting to the point where you can add in unique details, like making actual laces out of paper and shoe gromets and then deciding to use a whole puncher and glue on the punchies to make the shoe poka dotted. I like this shoe but i can say that it is not completely accurate, which a lot of the times is not my concern when a material requires manipulation through precise measuring, im more concerned with the personality of the object.