Assignment 3: Mesh Mixer

 Mesh Mixer

Original Concepts

New Concept

 

After the breakout rooms, I decided to hone in on my cupcoke design because my group members liked the comedic concept for the design and it had a bit of room to reform. My main focus was swapping out the can for a bottle to make the silhouette way more clear at communicating the idea. I also added birthday candles to drive home the cupcake idea as I thought it still wasn't clear enough with just the wrapper. The model I initially downloaded was very low res I fixed this by using the smooth tool in sculpting to made the low poly less visible. I also bumped up the contrast in the colours so it's easier to tell everything apart.

Some other good suggestions that I got were to: Work on the foot boot by adding a second foot with a different shoe on it then smooth out the model. The pencil holder, by swapping both models and adding more pens/pencils for variety. And the guitar knife which I would have just put a big focus on making the models more smoothly transition between them.

This concept fits within remix culture as it is a mashup of two objects to create a concept. Initially, it is just a coke bottle and a cupcake but once combined it grows past being just two things and instead becomes a terrible pun. It also fits very well into read and write culture as past the conceptual stage it is completely dependant on the remixing of pre-existing assets made by other people.