Exercise 3: Model a Seashell

Reference Side View

Reference Top View 

(Fusion 360) Top View

(Fusion 360) Side View

(Meshmixer) I tried to import it here to add textures, but holes are left all over the model:(

Project 2: Skull Guitar from Disney Pixar's Coco

          For this project, I was originally going to model the Mirror of Erised from the Harry Potter series. Finding that rather too complicated to create, I decided to go instead with the iconic skull guitar that Miguel Rivera uses in Disney Pixar's Coco. To approach this object, I began look at every aspect of the guitar, looking at as just shapes. From there, my final form consists of 70 different bodies and 517 faces. Here are some pictures of what it looks like in model:

   

          The new narrative for this guitar revolves around a little boy named Brendon, who ends up at an orphanage for his own safety when his family is murdered by a group of dangerous criminals. At the orphanage, kids don't treat him well at all because they see him as a "freak". All alone, he always feels upset and wishes more than anything for his family to be back with him. One day, a gift comes to him, which is the white skull guitar. As he begins to sing some songs of his own made-up lyrics, he realizes that the guitar is magical and can take him back to relive the happiest memories of his past. Ultimately, it becomes the only things that keeps him going. 

           For the actual renders of this guitar, I wanted to produce all 3 in a room with eerie, low, and fire-like lighting for the kind of the overall mood of Brendon's story and a possibility of what his own room/orphanage could look like. Therefore, I set up the guitar in three different positions all around the room:

          Overall, I'm super happy with how the guitar turned out! In the future, however, I would love to be able to incorporate more of the very small, intricate designs as well as finding a program in which I can actually add strings to the guitar itself.