3D Modeling & Fine Art
During my time at Florida State, I studied computer engineering along with taking studio art classes that taught me how to meticulously and strategically use 3D modeling software for artistic endeavors. Painting is another medium I enjoy because it relaxes me.
SketchUp • Fusion 360 • Tinkercad • Meshmixer • Maya
Sam Ash Music Store (2019)
Model of the Sam Ash Music Store in Clearwater, FL I constructed in SketchUp. This was my favorite place to go growing up and where I culminated my love for music. I loved the room with all the pianos and played with them all.
2019. I experimented during a study of 3D printing various techniques. These studies included form, assembly of multiple pieces, and large scale printing.
2019. I was briefed to redesign an existing product to make it better, so I decided to put my own spin on the popular fidget devices. With 4 poles and holes in each block, these puzzle pieces can be rearranged in 16 different ways. Continually inviting the user to push, pull, twist, and lock them together as they so please; my favorite form is when they come together as pictured to create a golden lightning bolt.
2019. Clay. This was one of my first projects to create with clay. I decided to go along with classic pots with humanistic features as a way to practice sculpting the human form. My mom still has these on our windowsill back home.
I started to explore character design through clay as a medium. Taking inspiration from the PC game DOOM, I designed two demons: a bust (Deamon 1.1) and an installation piece (Crystalized 2.0). The goal was to create something that gave me the creeps.. which i did.
A study into demons.
2019. Installation piece
2019. 3D print and vinyl on wood. This piece was made as a test of product presentation using new design technologies. The idea behind the look was based on eyes and space movies.
Using only 2 wooden blocks of fence post, I was challenged to create a wood sculpture that is both enticing as it is pleasing to look at. Thus, my love for mathematics is what brought me to create this piece. This piece attempts to challenge the Fibonacci spiral and the concept of perfectionism that is found in nature by cutting the wood into the "perfect" lengths and widths to create a perfect three-dimensional box. When it was finished, I claimed that this is the most perfect form the wood could be crafted in and thus must be the most perfect sculpture in the room.
2020. Adobe Dimensions. Conceptualized during the 2020 lockdown of a potential statue to be displayed at the Hearst Publication, Vogue.
2022. Listen to OK ALRIGHT by THE SPREE out now on all streaming platforms.
inspired by the cinematographic work of Studio Ghibli
based on the famous style of Bob Ross
The product of the clay printer outputted a much more compressed version of my original design. Instead of smooth sides they are rigid. The overall time it took to complete this was 3 days, while its counterpart only took 3 hours. Creating this piece by hand with clay could be considered an intermediate task, one may want to use this printer if they were not a skilled ceramicist. But at what cost on a Darwinism perspective could this have on humans losing the ability to craft with clay?
Both designed using Fusion 360, one was printed with a standard 3D printer and the other, a clay 3D printed. The results of that study show the aesthetics that line between using from human conception, to computer software, and then back to a hands-on craft. One day, as technology grows more intelligent by the day I believe machines will learn the ability to replicate human ingenuity as a craft.
perfectly executed in every way.