sackboy project

Independent Studies 180

For my independent studies course I have decided to take up a project that is a continuation from a previous project that I have done in Art 13 with soft sculptures. It is of a character from Little Big Planet called Sackboy, and the reason for me to press on with this particular project was because my passion for video games and anything video game related. Also, I thought it would be unique to see this in a gallery.

Conceptual Idea:

I have saved a pdf file of a sackboy pattern and I will make a trip to a Kinkos to have pattern printed to the appropriate size. Afterwards I plan on making at least 6 sackboys (each of them will be about 2 ft in height) made out of canvases and other materials that I can find and think would be sutiable for the project. When I am done with making my sackboys I will spray paint each of them to a white color, so when I project an image on the soft sculpture the image will appear more clearly to the viewers. If time will permit me, I will construct a back drop which I will paint a level from Little Big Planet on canvas cloth to match the theme. It would be pretty awesome to allow the viewers themselves to step into the world of Little Big Planet.



Phase I: Scouting out for materials and doing some research

Where the items I require will most likely be expensive I went to an alternative source...Home Depot where I have found canvas materials for way less than if I were to buy canvas by the yrd at an art or fabric store. But I will have to evetually make a trip to other fabric stores to find other materials to give texture variations to my sackboys.
I will post up some pictures when I get the chance, which will be very soon some time during the weekend.



Phase II: Gathering of Materials

So I have made a trip to Home Depot and bought me a 9' X 12' canvas drop cloth and that will be my material for the sackboys, but I am still contemplating on whether or not if I should look for different materials for the sackboys to give my collection abit of variation. I have also found cutout pattern of sackboy, which I will take the PDF file to kinkos to have the pattern enlarged. Below are the pictures of the pattern that I will be using.




Phase III: Ready Set...CUT!!!
So I have printed and cut out the pattern for my sackboys. I have also started to stenciled out the pattern onto my material.


Phase IV: The Result

I have finally finished one of the many sackboys. This one is abit plain, but I figured, make all the sackboys in their plain form and leave the decorations last. I am still contemplating on which six iconic characters I should make. So far I have thought about making:

1.) Mario from Super Mario Bros.

2.) Kratos from God of War

3.) Old Snake from Metal Gear

4.) Tron from the movie Tron

5.) King Leonidas from 300

6.) the sixth one is still undecided....

Done and Done...kinda....

The art 106 advance group has finally finished with the Red Cross wearable art project. Due to a family event I was unable to attend the fashion show itself, which I regret. Although we did not win it is difficult to comprehend that we made it to the finals with the little time we had to prepare for such an event. I am ecstatic to have been apart of something this memorable and great. When working on this project (building the cross backpack) it seem like an eternity, but in reality it went by in a split second. Here are some of the pictures of the outfits at the fashion show:
our plans for this project: from what I heard I believe that we are still going to continue working on this project to improve the outlook on the outfits, making them look polish, fix a few electrical problems, and perhaps even improve the cross backpack as a whole.

Recap of what has been done:

Towards the end of April we had the model Philip come and have a fitting of the cross. It took awhile for him to get to us because he had ran into some trouble and it was difficult for Jon and I to find him due to the fact that we do not know what he looked like. But when we did find him and put the cross on him the process was fairly quick. The model had no trouble putting on the cross and in my perspective it looked to fit well on him. We tried to schedule another fitting, but I do not think that it fell through since I did not hear anything else afterwords.

The following weeks after the fitting, team backpack went ahead and started painting the cross. It took us a couple of sessions in the spray booth to get to the quality that we wanted it to be.

The week of the fashion show we all scrambled to get things done we reinstalled the Alice pack to the cross and drilled the holes into the panels for the speakers and installed the marquee scroll LED board onto the cross with acrylic brackets

Painting and such

Two weeks ago, Jon and Dan went to Home Depot to get some door hinges for the front side of the cross. Unfortunately I was unable to accompany them because I was working with the video with Ahn Khao. But when Dan and Jon attached the latches to the cross they found out that the latches cause the panels to shift upwards causing the panels to not fit properly the way we wanted to, so Jon and Dan decided to shave off parts of the panel to make the latch fit with the cross.
(installing magnetic cabinet door thingys hoping it would give us a clean opening effects to our cross.)

(taking apart parts of the cross so we are able to fix the latch prob)


The past week the cross team have been discussing how to install electronics onto the cross drawing out measurements making sure we have enough room on the cross to fit everything we wanted and to make sure it wasnt too heavy.



Last Thursday the Cross Team received permission to use the spraybooth in the workshop. So we were able to begin put a coat of primer and a layer of red on the panels. Unfortunately we were unable to finish spray paint the cross due to time constraints, the workshop closed at 5 pm that day. So hopefully we will be able to get the spraybooth again!

Second to Last stage of finish building the cross

soo our cross team was recently entered into the semi finals for the red cross and had to present to the red cross committee on Monday in Palo Alto. Only to find out a day later that we got accepted into the finals and our work will be show case into the fashion show? (to my understanding) so now we have to finish up installing the electronics and makes some reenforcements on the cross to make sure it is stable and sturdy. Not to mention painting the cross the colour red. I have taken some photos and will be posting them up shortly.....

Building and such

So this past week our team have been strategically planning on how the cross is to be built. The first thing we did was figuring out how big we wanted the cross to be and marking the measurements out on the panels.

the photos: March 22,2010

(our materials)

(jon drawing out measurements)

(Dan calculating the correct measurements)

(Dan and Jon figuring out how things will work)

Note: I did help out drawing out the measurements

TUESDAY March 23, 2010

During class the entire group gathered to figure out everyone's schedule so that we can find time to all work together. After a long brainstorming session we finally start working on building the product, which makes me feel more productive and having the feeling of finally getting things moving along and done.

(jon working the bansaw)



(cut panels)

(scraps)

Wednesday March 24, 2010

Dan, Jon and I met up in the morning to try to put the panels together, and found out that the boards could not properly fit. But it is easily fix with abit of sanding and dremelling.





Thanks to Anhkoa we now have a video of what we have been up to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z59dCdZzSA

Adventure part 2: back to home depot....lowes?

Yesterday my teammates and I went to home depot to take a look at the materials together and semi- brainstormed on how we would put together the cross. Nothing is set, only that we are going forward with masonite panel instead of acrylic. But on Tuesday when we went to Home Depot there was a miscommunication on which Home Depot to go to and Dan was unable to meet up with the rest of the teammate (jon, jen, rickey) so we all decided to fill him in on the plans on wednesday.

WEDNESDAY

Dan, jon and I discussed what materials to use and debated on whether or not to try to go to lowes to see if they were cheaper in terms of price. We found out that Lowes do not charge for the first two cuts and every cut after that is 25 cents, if we were to buy the masonite board from them (but they didnt not carry masonite panels). Jon called Lowes to ask them if they carried masonite panels, but they were unsure of what kind of materials that we were referring to. So assuming that it was a hardware store and since Home Depot carried it, we thought that there is no reason why Lowes wouldnt carry it too, but they didnt. Then we decided to go to Home Depot Thursday to get the panels and possibly fasteners or nails or whatever we need to hold the panels together.

Art 106 Advanced Group: Red Cross Project

The advanced group of 106 have been working on the Red Cross project and decided on dividing into groups. The group that I was placed in was with the production and construction of the cross for the outfit. For the previous week on Thursday my group members (Dan, Jon and Rickey) and also the other group was able to make a trip down to taps plastic to figure out how to work with the acrylic. Afterwards my group members talked it over and made a plan B in case the ideal materials were too expensive. We talked about possibly using Masonite material and talked about what kind of material to use to put the outfit together. So I have volunteered myself to head to Home Depot to look at materials and take pics of materials we need and price check to budget our spending and report back to the group on what my findings.