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Papercraft: Dagger Style

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Papercraft: Dagger Style The prompt for this project was to create an object out of paper that was important or significant to us in some form. The dagger was a choice I made based off my brother and his love for a certain webtoon series so I thought it would be interesting to see how far I could push my abilities. I had many ideas, and started out with my first design, however proved to be unsuccessful as the way it unfolded was very difficult to actually build, so I restarted the design and went with something more streamlined and realistic. I revised this a few times, making the sides of the blade wider to accommodate for more tabs and a sturdier blade as my prototype was flimsy and didn't hold well. I had to make everything a bit larger including the edge pieces of the blade to make sure I could actually build it.      The feedback from the peer review was incredibly helpful to make the dagger come to life. The first comment was to make the handle smaller so that...

Dagger Prototype

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  Dagger Prototype Starting this project out, our goal was to create a 3D object that held significant meaning to us in some form. I had a few ideas, a teddy bear, a shoe, and a dagger. I chose the dagger because I figured it would be an interesting test of my abilities and what I could create. I started by drawing out the dagger, and modelling that, however turned to be unsuccessful and I wasn't pleased with how it came out. Then I moved on to the next type, and found this to be much too difficult of a design, forgot to save it and restarted once more anyways. I finally came to my last design, and found that when designing it in Rhino, I made it much too difficult and now know to simplify more in order to achieve a clean outcome. I will alter the design to be more simple in my final. Once I printed the pages out I tried to make sure the sizes were all the same, however even though I printed copies multiple times the side pieces I made were wrong and wouldn't fit the edges of t...