Archives for April 2020

The Ai file of my final version of the toy: (oops .ai type is not supported in the system so here is the google drive link)

Just saying, I ended up with a three-part story using three different mechanics.

Suprisingly even if the engrave works but the service said if I wanted to engrave with larger surface area it will cost so much more. So I ended up just engraved with outlines. A little background actually works very very well in terms of emphasizing the main part of the toy which is the story rather than the mechanics itself. Also I’m very proud with how the character “Doc” looks because I am NO drawer but I ended up with a decent looking comic character. (BTW this character is actually a discarded plan when I was designing my own character so I’m actually suprised I can still find a use for him now)

Ideas for project 03:

Since the situation of Corona Virus is pretty intense right now around the globe, peopla are feeling a bit depressed, so I wanted to make something fun to cheer people up and give my thanks to the medical workers out there risking their lives fighting this pandemic. So this toy basically tells a story of a doctor literally fighting the virus with a gun (of medicinal alcohol) on the street, the basic mechanics is cam B, which can make the doc and the virus both move up and down, which will lok like the doctor is chasing after the virus.

Low poly object:

My project is a version of Hanayama puzzle which is a kind of disassembly puzzles for people to solve. This toy is designed for one of my friends, Nate, who is going through a lot of pressure and workload, to act like a distraction from all his works and relieve some of his stress. I’ll try mail the thing to

him and tell him to record a video for me.

As my post for week 2 mentioned, playing for me is mostly and most importantly for fun. In that post, I also explained how all the readings and videos we did inspired me to form this idea, which masically is: “why is everyone treating play so seriously?”. So, based on the idea of play is play, I interviewed Nate about his work and study life recently and asked him what does he want most under such pressure, he said anything as a distraction would be great. Then he said he really enjoys playing quiz games and solving puzzles which he finds very relieving, so I thought making him this puzzle toy could help him in some way.

Reflection on the toy itself:

First in the designing process, there wasn’t too much trouble because I’m replicating the toy from a video to my sketch paper. But looking at the toy actually working and functioning I was able to replicate it exactly the same onto my sketch. So I would say this was a great way to use my skills.

In terms of how the toy works as a whole I’ll have to update this when the toy actually got delivered to me.

But over all I feel like my toy was a bit simple and straightforward and there are definitely things that I could improve if I had more time such as making some more decorations on top and also I could paint on the printed model to make it look nicer. But afterall it doesn’t affect the whole functionality and the idea of the toy too much so I think this would be it fot this toy’s potential. But I must say that there were certainly more new ideas about other toys that I had which due to the time was not realized. I could have gotten on a whole different route on this. But I guess I’ll just stop here.

Documentation of the process:

the youtube video that I replicated the model from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FKOeYEpDXE

then the sketch I did:

 

The rendered model: 

the video of my friend playing the toy itself, I love how he was not able to take out the last piece lolll