From 3D to IRL

The IRL sculpture is coming together fine, I just finished transferring the 3d sketch to slices. Today I’m a man of few words, so I just let the pictures do most of the talking.

I started with my 3d model.

Sliced it up. The squares are A3 format paper with 10cm distance in between.

Printed the slices!

Cut them out (I'm very concentrated here)

Stacked the up as I went along...

Got scared that I'm making the whole thing to small.

Finished cutting, this is all the slices. Maybe this is the world’s shortest dolphin.

Pinned it all to the polystyrene.

So many parts.

Me posing with power tool! I'm bad!

Cutting out the slices 10 centimeters thick.

Put them in stacks trying to be organized.
Started to glue them together but that's another story. Over and out!

Does this work?

Hey!

Get off my back Jacob! Anyway is anybody even bothering to read this blog?

Later today; Cutting paper and posting a 3d movie!

Lost in 3-D?

Ola, you should be proud of your skills in 3-D technique. It's very impressive. However, I am a little scared that you spend more time in the "3-D universe" than in the real universe. Also there has been requests that you speed up the process a bit, or atleast post more interesting bits about dolphins and how they communicate with each other. The request is mainly from me at the moment, but I am sure many more agree that it would be interesting. Over and out/Jacob, editor.

Size me up!

For me to be inside a dolphin I have to figure out how big the dolphin should be. So I asked my brother to size me up, even though I rather work with professionals. I was 2.15 centimeters long including my feet laid flat on the ground and 60 cm wide over the shoulders. My brother was pretty impressed by my masculine body, so was I.

Then I created a digital representation of myself from a free character I found on Luxology’s homepage and sized my CG-dolphin so it covered VR-me. The full dolphin suite will be around 3,1 meter long and maybe 70 centimeters wide depending on how thick rubber I’m going to use… That’s ok because dolphin males range from 2 to four meters, I’ll be an average bottlenose dolphin.

Going to the construction material warehouse.

It’s been a couple of days since I posted something on the blog. Mostly due to another project I had to do in between but I’ve also been spending time in my new workshop that the landlord lent me for the project! Hurray for the best landlord ever! It’s just a couple of floors down but I don’t have internet there. Good for the dolphin project but bad for youtube. But don’t you worry youtube, I’ll make it up to you by posting some videos later.

Anyhow I lent a car from a friend and went shopping for material. First I filled the tank and then the silly gps guided me down into some tunnels and lost contact with gps… It was really crowded in the tunnel and the traffic was completely still because of some construction work. The Gps freaked out and showed me driving randomly inside houses narrated by a bad Homer Simpson copy even though I stood completely still. I was trapped in traffic for about an hour and a half and the warehouse almost closed before I could arrive. But I made it in time! So here are some pictures;

The new Workshop! Thanks supergreat landlord.Thanks Kalle S for the car!So much PolystyrenePolystyrene inside workshop, mission accomplished!

Today’s to do list

On today’s to do list there is a very important to do, I’ll have to buy material for the base sculpture. I’ve been lent a big car and later I’m driving to the construction warehouse to get polystyrene. Then even later, I’ll tell you all about it!

On tomorrow’s to do list I wrote “do nothing”. Take this advice: Never work yourself to death, don’t forget about life!