Molding and Casting
This week's assignment requires designing a mold around the material and the tools we can use to create shapes in various types of materials.
This week molding and casting were explained to us. Although the global and local conferences were clear, I have to be honest and say that I would have found the photo or video demonstrations more helpful than the crude explanation of how the machines work to make a wax mold. Sketches were made, containers of solutions were shown, but I expected real demonstrations of pouring the liquids and more vivid images. However, I was quite excited about what was to come, and at the same time, I was aware of the tight time frame we had to stick to deliver everything that was asked of us.
Jorge pointed out that we have to be careful what we mean when we say positive side and negative side because the positive on the wax mold is negative on the silicone mold, which is the positive mold!
Once the demonstration was done, the objective was to draw something that afternoon and then be able to mill it on Saturday morning. It was time to make a decision, but this decision was not easy to make. I wanted to make a two-part mold, preferably with two non-identical sides. I found this to be more challenging for me. I investigated what the students of other years did and, in the end, I decided to do something simpler.
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I downloaded a working file of the 'Minion' and started playing it only to realize that my knowledge was somewhat limited when it came to manipulating such shapes. I was advised to watch a tutorial.
YouTube Tutorial
Class documentation:
Orange and Violet Simple Startup Business Animated Presentation de Cindy Marilyn