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Introduction<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The plot of my worldbuilding narrative has many layers, as does my Digital Media visual project made for it: multilayer art. Seniors had several options for what project to create, including paper lightboxes and stacked wood art. I chose to create a stacked wood art, which challenged me to think in terms of how negative space contributes to a design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design process<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Here are my hand drawn rough sketches for ideas on what to make. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Sketch inspired by chalcedony quartz
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I was first inspired by a piece of chalcedony (a grape-like variety of quartz in shape) I saw on display at the Harvard Natural History Museum in January. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But I didn’t know what to make from this pattern, so I came up with a sketch of bicycle wheels and a clock within a cat’s silhouette that I could imbue deeper meaning into. I thought this better represented my worldbuilding story by highlighting our feline-like main character and the time crunch of the plot. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Sketch #2: cat outline with gears
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One concept behind making a stacked wood art piece was to adjust the size of layers depending on their distance from you to emphasize its 3D form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before digitizing my design, I followed Mr. Flo’s tutorials and learned to do this in Illustrator: duplicating layers and changing stroke width to the outside of the lining, then expanding the appearance of the new form to create a true shape from it. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Practicing repeating layers before starting my project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Here below is an example of what layering looks like. The colors each belong to a distinct layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also had to join paths of designs to have them compatible for laser-printing. Below are screenshots from my interface as I made all the lines in a layer into a continuous form, and expanded them for a new shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Command + Y turns the view to be lines-only<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Color coded by layers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My design evolved quite interestingly. I like how this series of PNGs show the increasing complexity of the design components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Design evolution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally, this screenshot below shows my final design in Adobe Illustrator with all layers turned on and all strokes thick enough to see (1pt width).<\/p>\n\n\n

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assembled project<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Here is my fully painted and assembled stacked wood art! Click on the image to view it in full size!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Final assembled stacked wood art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I took this photograph of the wood art propped against a great pot in my yard, in which a Japanese maple tree lives. I felt the deep night colors of the pot along with the vibrant moss covering the pebbled ground created a well-fitting contrast with the warmer red tones of the wood art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video productions<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I made videos showing the assembly process of my wood art, both in the physical world and digital 3D space!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Time-lapse video of assembly and footage of final assembled piece with a moving camera to show that its stacked layers of 2D pieces to give a 3D effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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