week 8

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT 8

Part 1: Develop your own character:

Post a scanned handmade sketch of your character in your blog and answers a few questions in this post (you don’t need to answer all the questions, just pick a few of them). You can also propose new questions and write a short description of your character (~ 50 words)
In addition, post the turnaround of your character in Illustrator that you did during the class.
Finally, write a short story about your character and imagine a kinetic element that will help you to tell this story. Draw a handmade sketch of one scene of the story and identify the kinetic element(s). Think of ways you can recreate that movement by using mechanisms and explain how it will work.

Part 2: Laser cut a mechanism for project 3.

After you identified the kinetic element(s) of your story, you can choose one of the paper mechanisms you made in week 3 or another one that fits better for the movement you want to recreate. Consider modifications to the mechanism according to your idea. Watch this video tutorial to help you to create the files and laser cut your mechanism in a wood board of 5mm. Feel free to use other elements like wire, paper, etc. but make sure you use laser cutting for some elements of your mechanism.

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For every assignment you will have one week to finish them.
The deadline for posting the assignment is every Tuesday, 11:59pm.
Weekly assignments are 20% of the final grade.
The rubric for each project evaluation can be found here.