{"id":521,"date":"2013-08-01T12:39:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:51:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:21:44","slug":"three-dee-thursday-avcon-trophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/three-dee-thursday-avcon-trophies\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Dee Thursday: AVCon Trophies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to kick off Blaugust again, the time of year that I can actually feel good about not updating my blog frequently, because it means that I have a bunch of content to throw up each day while other Blaugust participants have to create new content. Suckers.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I think I&#8217;ll end up creating a fair bit of new stuff for this month anyway, so I don&#8217;t know when my older stuff will get to see the light of day. I guess I don&#8217;t have as much of a backlog as last year. My rough outline for this year&#8217;s Blaugust will be as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sheet-Music Sunday<\/li>\n<li>Musical Monday<\/li>\n<li>Watercolour Wednesday<\/li>\n<li>Three-Dee Thursday<\/li>\n<li>Fan-Art Friday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also plan to do Strippin&#8217; Saturday content, for which I intend to make comics, but that&#8217;s a bit uncertain. Tired Tuesday will be my day of rest, though if I&#8217;m feeling not-lazy I&#8217;ll find something to upload.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, today I&#8217;m showing off the trophies I made for AVCon this year, of which I&#8217;ve shared a couple of times on the Twitter machine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time in the Adelaide <a href=\"http:\/\/fablabadelaide.com\/\">Fab Lab<\/a> lately, where I&#8217;ve been getting quite familiar with their laser cutter. My first project was to make approximately 300 tokens for us to give away to AVCon attendees. I was then inspired by some trophies on display in the Fab Lab and realised we could make some really cool customised trophies for AVCon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-523\" alt=\"IMG_1015\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1015-e1375326452823-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1015-e1375326452823-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1015-e1375326452823-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1015-e1375326452823.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also thanks to the Fab Lab I&#8217;ve been getting back into 3D modeling, so the first thing I did was to mock up a 3D render of how the trophy might look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TrophyPrototypeRender.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-522\" alt=\"TrophyPrototypeRender\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TrophyPrototypeRender-300x168.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TrophyPrototypeRender-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TrophyPrototypeRender.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using Blender I was able to work out the geometry of the trophy and ensure that there weren&#8217;t any impossible intersections of the material. I was also able to use Blender to export out the correct alignment of the required cuts in the trophy base.<\/p>\n<p>Initially I had wanted to use some kind of stained wood for the base, and I experimented with MDF. (You&#8217;ll notice the plaque has been enlarged here from the demo render, the result of some trial and error, AKA poor conversions)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1050\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1050-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However as it turned out, there was a ton of scrap red acrylic available at the Fab Lab, and lazy me also didn&#8217;t want to work out how to do attractive wood staining. The final draft used acrylic throughout the trophy, with some gold paper for the inside of the Invader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1065\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1065-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ended making up additional thank-you trophies for our special guests as well. Chris Cason took <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Casonworld\/status\/356358812292227072\/photo\/1\">a really flattering photo<\/a> his!<\/p>\n<p>Next time I try this, I&#8217;m going to have a go at mounting some little LEDs along the sides of the Acrylic. Apparently the effect is very cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to kick off Blaugust again, the time of year that I can actually feel good about not updating my blog frequently, because it means that I have a bunch of content to throw up each day while other Blaugust participants have to create new content. Suckers. Actually I think I&#8217;ll end up creating &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/three-dee-thursday-avcon-trophies\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,274],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-admin","post-521","format-standard","category-crafts","category-lasering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}