Well I have two separate things this time. We'll start with the Minecraft character skin I made.
Here's the image I used as reference.
I made it with the skin editor at minecraftskins.com. I wish I could have found a better way to do the face, but I'm working with an 8x8 pixel square. I think the rest turned out alright. Here's a link for those that want to download the skin, and you can get a better look at it:
http://www.minecraftskins.com/skin/216140/sachiel/The next thing is some stuff I did in Mastercam, a 3D design program used a lot for CNC machining, which I'm taking a class on at vo-tech for the second half of the school day. I'm amazed at times that they trust a bunch of high school kids with $20,000+ machines.
All 8 designs laid out to be laser etched on to dog-tags.
Close up of the Sachiel mask with wings and the SEELE emblem.
Close up of random symbol #1 and Gearhead
Close up of the Invisible Pink Unicorn logo and the other winged Sachiel mask.
Close up of Cthulhu and the plain Sachiel mask.
Generally if we're going to put a picture on to an something with a CNC mill or the laser we take an image off the internet, put it into Mastercam, which convert's it pretty badly most of the time, and then we have to manually put arcs and lines over the rough shape we have then delete the original vector image. That's what I did with the IPU emblem, SEELE emblem and the wings on the masks. I would have done the same to the Cthulhu image, but with school ending in two days and the image being as complex as it is, I wouldn't have time. So instead I left it the way in was because it looks fine once the original is shrunk down from 6in to a little under 1in to fit on the dog-tag. I added the arched lettering to the top as well.
The Gearhead was made taking
this skull and a stock image of a gear and fusing them together while editing out all the extra. The unknown symbol was made by combining bits and pieces from Mastercam's stock image library that where categorized as "tribal", like those tattoos douchebags get. I make it one day while bored and messing around and playing with any image available, this was a result that I thought was worth saving for future use. I don't have any idea as of yet for what I'll use it for so do you all have any ideas?
Finally the Sachiel masks were made entirely from scratch. I didn't trace it from the designs I posted earlier. I then experimented with adding "angel wings" to it. I have a version with "demon wings", but that one didn't make it on to here as I took these screen shots right as class was ending. I'll try to post it and any others I missed tomorrow. The boxes on the screen represent the fixture we put the tags in to make it easier to position a large amount correctly much easier. The boxes in the program were made by a classmate of mine. The plastic fixture itself, made on a 3D printer, was designed by another class mate.
I will probably be making the the tags tomorrow, so I'll try to post pic's of the results.
I would love comments, suggestions, or criticisms on both the Minecraft skin and the Mastercam designs. Any way I could make it better? Any ideas for future projects?(though Mastercam ideas will have to wait until the start of the next school year before I can start on them)
