Project name: Hail to the DOC
The full three-part story: first part:
Corona virus out break happened, people were hiding in their houses, feeling frightened of being infected. And that’s when DOC chose to stand out, risking his/her own life to save ours. mechanism 1 describes the DOC holding the sanitizer gun, looking “around” the street, trying to locate the virus.
DOC located the virus, who certainly was not prepared for the destiny to cone to its head so darn quickly, fleed like a scared bird. DOC chased it street after street, town after town, before he/she finally managed to wipe the virus out of the existense completely.
DOC, returned with the virus’s DNA on hand as a trophy and also a method of creating vaccines, became a hero of the world, everybody praised him, everybody respected him, and no more violent medical disturbances happened ever since.
some mechanisms and design details:
p1: elongated cam A
p2: double sided bridge that holds the rotating axis
p3: three-holed connecting platform (two side holes for the character, one center hole for axis)
p4: background supporter traingle lol
I came up with three different ideas that I haven’t decided which one yet.
first one is based on my final proj for comm lab (which I’m sure Leon has the link to lol) which was a modern interpretation of the seven deadly sins. (for example rage for not being able to kill that one mosquito in a summer night, glutton being the guilty pleasure to buy bubble tea and things like that) this connect with empathy because sometimes we have to stop and think about how these things annoies us in real life and also how much colorful they made our lives. The empathy here is not feeling sorry for ourselves, but rather in a more positive way which is to acknowledge and appreciate these small annoying things in our lives.
The second idea is based on a video by a Minecraft youtuber Mumbo Jumbo. The video is called “50 Most Frustrating Things in Minecraft” which describes 50 things he as a MC player hates the most when playing the game. I want to create this idea in memorial of all the diamond gears we lost in lava and all the different times that we died in the game. The target audience is obviously MC players only but this could really strick them in their deepest soul and remind them of their biggest frustrations playing this game.
The third idea that I have is empathy for those who cannot return to school. I don’t have any inspirations for this one I’m just genuinely missing the feeling of being at the AB and hang with my friends and I’m sure people are feeling the same way as me. So I thought I would creat things that are famous in the ab which people don’t get access to just to bring some of the feeling of being at AB to the toy’s user.
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