Laser cut workshop 2

Here's my badge design I drew in illustrator.

This is how it came out, my next step was to start experimenting with different contrasts and creating more depth to my images.

Here I used a jpeg image with high contrast; I hoped it would create an interesting image once it had been engraved.

A short clip of the laser at work.

This is what the image came out like, the grain wasn't as prominent as I had hope however I did quite like the subtle effect. If I wanted a heavier grain I would have to play with the contrasts more on Photoshop.

I really enjoyed the workshop and will be preparing some experiments for the next session, I really want to laser cut into some quality paper, also have a stab at incorporating some moving parts.

Laser cut workshop 1

He had our first work shop and we were shown some examples of what could be done. There were some complex examples which were really nice, there were also some moving parts which is something I would like to have a go at.

We were told to go away and design a badge for the next session, we were given these work sheets, they showed us the basics of illustrator and coral design so when we came back back next week we could come straight into cutting.

Some of this was very helpful ! Using RGB 255 to cut and having a stroke line 0.01 seemed to be the most vital of the information.

Introductory Lecture

In this lecture we covered 3D printing, laser cutting, augmented reality and motion graphics. All these techniques were very interesting.

Augmented Reality

I was practically interested in argument reality, it fascinated me and I want to get some sort of grasp off how the technology worked.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/augmented-reality.htm

I looked a few websites and videos which helped me understand where this technology could head in the future. which proved to be very exciting in many different aspects of everyday life and in video game advancement.

3D Printing

3D printing also caught my eye; I was amazed by the almost endless possibilities not just now but in the future. The idea that it was similar to a Sci-Fi replicator, which people have only dreamed off is surely enough of a reason to pay attention to the advances in this product.

http://www.explainingthefuture.com/3dprinting.html

I looked at this website and it talk about printing out food, which just seemed unbelievable. They can currently print out cheese, chocolate, cake icing. In 10 years’ time they should be printing me out a roast dinner.

Motion Graphics

We looked at 3 different programs within motion graphics, after effects, Isadora and Arduino. I really liked the interactive feature of Isadora and could really see my illustrations fitting in well with this style.

After affects has always interested me though being an illustrator have never got round to having a go, I looked at a few things online and really admire some the effects this one particularly.  

I would like to be able to create some thing like this but i dont think my style suits, so ill leave it to the graphic designers.

Laser Cut

We look at laser cutting and you can do some really detailed interacted stuff. There’s also some more complex work, a lot of architects and engineer’s use laser cutting for their modelling. Here’s something really impressed me.