Tri State Area

These are the characters who will be the playable protagonists in my game!

Its some concept art of Reyna and Riptide! I have had some trouble balencing their organic dragon and techno-organic bot features. The designs featured on the poster are a blending of the two extremes.

Here is when I cut out the design on a rather large board of wood. The line art turned out pretty god for a program not made specificly for art.

Then I painted it. Mixing and waiting for the paint to dry were the harder parts of this whole operation.

Here is the final poster! added some of their respective elements on their corisponding side of the poster. Riptide gets water and electricity, Reyna gets fire and air. Hope you enjoy!

I cut it out with the laser cutter thing! It was for the self portrait project, and I decided I wanted to do a more metephorical selfportrait to represent who I was, am, and see myself becoming. They are also based on one of my characters from the story my Senior Project will take place in! Also made a drawn version as an addition for the art interum!

These are the pictures I took of the concept art and the art peices while they were still work in progress. For the laser printer specificly, I wanted to do something in a similar vein to my previous makerspace project (post coming soon) but smaller and more focused on one character. Oasis(or maybe Sandune?) were a representation of certian aspects of my experience in life. Oasis is a fusion of two. These two are rather diffrent from me in quite a few ways and experiences. In a few key ways though, these characters could be seen as reflections of myself. That is to say, my past, my percieved potential future, and the present self.

These are the finished peices. The title for the first peice, “Is it ok for me to be here?” is a question I have asked many times over the years ive been alive, for various diffrent reasons and purposes. I think that the very presence of Oasis in this peice is a direct answer, that it is ok for them to be there as themself, with all that comes with that. The drawn peice, “I am me” is a peice about self-acceptance. I think I am still working on that, but I am closer than I was before. When I do come to terms with myself, I hope to be free as a bird. However, I suspect that that will not be happening for many more years.

When Oasis finds themselves from the two for the first time, they dont get to take comfort in themself before having to face the might of the Machine. The machine needs people and their energy to feed on. If people had other options, the machine as it is now would die. And so, it fought to steal, kill, and destroy in the name of power, all for the sake of sustaining itself. I still dont fully know what happens next for Alex, Robin, and Oasis yet, but there is still plenty of hope. They will not be alone in their struggles, as there are people out there who care. I can hope as much for myself. I finaly am starting to have hope, acceptance, and understanding to match the fear, anger, and confusion. That is what Oasis represents to me as of right now. (Hope I can do them justice in the story I am writing!)

Hope you enjoyed!

For my project I made coasters with my dads company logo on the coasters. My first step was to load the logo up on the computer and in the software. Then I made a circle and put it around the logo adjusted the it to the size I wanted. I then turned on the laser cutter. Then printed it out, it didn’t turn out completely finished so I’ll have to rerun the laser over it to finish it.

(when it’s finished I will post a picture)

After we print all the tiles out and sort them by grade we will pass them out to each of the teachers. If we missed any students or if there are any new students the teachers can let us know and we will create a tile for that student. Sorting through the first batch of tiles was a difficult process because after printing them we just put them all jumbled up in a bin and we couldn’t find our list of grade levels. Once the tiles have been decorated we plan on helping put them on to our large tile board and hopefully finding a place to display it.

During the third quarter Alex and I continued making tiles for the new students from the merging of the schools. After making all the templates online we began printing and cutting them out. The tiles have turned out really well and we are in the process of sorting through them.

For WWT 2023, I worked on programing the LEDs, calibrating a scale, researching scaling and budgeting options, and I held interveiws with teachers and staff about their input on our idea.

We made 3D models of basic houses in third-world countries in Africa, Lesotho, South Sudan, and Somalia. Originally we were planing on creating landscapes around each houes to represent where they are from, but due to time, we could not get that done.

Yellow spray print on 1/8 inch birch plywood

Made on the laser foe Ms.Lamb in thren123 classroom.