3D Dogs 3D狗繪製

An important goal for this semester’s mission of helping homeless animals is to raise funds to support animal charities such as our partners at Taiwan SPCA. One way that we planned to do this was through the design and manufacture of small, 3D printed dogs, which our students completed from ideation to finished product. These dog figures would later go on sale, with proceeds being donated to animal charities.

While we are putting the production and fundraising aspects of this plan on hold due to the current COVID-19 situation, we have still undertaken the learning, design, adjustment, and finalization steps of the process, and are displaying this work in the digital space.

To reach this final product, students combined their previously learned visual editing skills in Inkscape with a newly learned program of Blender to create and edit objects in 3D space. Blender is a powerful software utilized by professionals in the movie and game design industries, along with other creative productions.

As part of this creative process, we also practiced more traditional art skills in observing light and shadow, identifying different levels of darkness. Basic shapes were combined, shaped, and edited to complete dog designs which the students had previously visualized in 2D.

These designs were later painted in Blender as well. The final result is shown on this website, and we hope to physically produce our designs in the near future.

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