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.

為幫助流浪動物，本學期一個重要的目標是協助動物慈善機構及保護組織募款，例如我們的合作夥伴-台灣防止虐待動物協會( SPCA) 。我們的計劃是設計和製造一系列的小型 3D 打印狗模型，並進行義賣，而義賣所得將全數捐贈給動物慈善機構。這些模型從構思到做出完成品皆會由學生親自完成。

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.

儘管因為 COVID-19疫情的關係，導致原定計畫中的生產和募款款部分必須暫緩，但我們對其他步驟的教育都仍在進行，包括設計、調整以及如何在新架設的線上空間展示作品等。

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.

Click here to see our finished 3d dogs