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What did you find most difficult about the 3D process?

The most difficult part of this process was cleaning up the edges of the piece. I didn't want to print the piece and have roughly drawn, edges. I tried cleaning it up in photoshop but that turned out to be too difficult, so I opened the piece in illustrator and traced it with paths to get smooth edges. This part took nearly a full day, but the results were worth it.

What did you find successful about your piece?

What I found the most successful is how smooth the edges turned out after I traced them in illustrator. I like that it maintained some of its hand-drawn imperfections, and style, but it looks smooth and clean.

Explain your piece?  What was you inspiration and how

The inspiration for this piece came from my friends at lunch. I mentioned that I wasn't sure what to make for this project, and we decided that it should be something to do with everybody's name. I decided to make a piece which incorporated the first letter of each person's name into a design. I went through a few combinations but settled on this one in the end because it used the straight sides of the letters to contain the whole piece in a square.

Kubo and the Two Strings

Kubo and the Two Strings

LAIKA

The stop motion in this movie was made through multiple methods, but mainly 3D printing and wire models. One of the animators who worked on this movie was Rachelle Lambden. She lives in Canada and graduated from York University with a BFA in theater directing. She worked on other stop motion movies by LAIKA including Boxtrolls and ParaNorman. This movie is special because it uses the largest puppet ever used in a stop motion movie.

I'm drawn to this movie because I find the animation style of this movie to be very interesting. The stop motion aspect of it and the fact that the characters exist in real life gives extra details to the characters that would not exist if the movie was entirely computer generated.