Final Project: Presentation & Review

Here we have the one and only Bumpies, well three and only if you want to be exact. Included in this pic are our corny yet confident mugs, but Jason left early to go clubbing (just kidding, he went to see his uncle). We are ultimately satisfied with the final product. Now, all that's left is to present it to the class and let it be reviewed by Ms. Lisa.

Here we have the bumpies spinning and bumping in true bumper cars fashion.

There were some problems that we had to troubleshoot before the bumpies were spinning perfectly. The video above shows that the base doesn't spin in the correct alignment that it was supposed to. It took some time and a lot of extra hands, but we managed to fix it (thanks guys).

Rationale

The bumpies are a metaphor of friendship. The three different colours of the bumpies represents different personalities with the emojis highlighting that particular meaning even more. The base represents their origins or the foundation that brought them up. The bumpies will spin, often than than not bumping into each other signifying the hardship that the bumpies face together or even those that are caused by themselves even.

On a more deeper note, the purple base gives the sense of a regal and royal background that the red bumpy was brought up with. Even with all that wealth, the red bumpy comically shows off an angry and agitated emotion. Just to show that money may not bring happiness to a person even with all the importance that it brings toward him. It sort of embodies real rich men these days who are habitually angry at other people especially those of a lower status level.

Moreover, there is the orange base that signifies the rearing that the yellow bumpy receives when it was growing up which is to have a positive outlook on life. The product of that is great which you can see from the smile the yellow bumpy has. However, the personality that the yellow bumpy personifies can also be seen as a catalyst for problems as its outgoing nature are thought to  be unhelpful and ignorant of other people's problems. Hence, the yellow bumpy should bump the other bumpies more often than the others.

The green base though, characterises a balance and modest upbringing that the blue bumpy went through. The blue bumpy personifies people with a high regard of integrity. Nonetheless, the design of the blue bumpy gives the sense that it embraces a sad personification. This can be inferred into two different conclusions. One, the personified person is crying as he is grateful for a normal, and peaceful life. Two, the person is confused on the basis of his integrity is being tested with a horrendously tough life decision that has an affect on other people around him. A good example is the character Walter White, from Breaking Bad as he is a man with lung cancer who decides to sell crystal meth to support his family. Along the way, he meets with different situations where he has to kill or end up being killed.

To conclude it all, even with the different personalities and backgrounds that each bumpies have, they always stick together. Get it, stick together, because they are all glued to one base. Ahhh... forget it.

Reflections

Working in a group is challenging if I were to be truthful. Even with the burden of creating is somewhat lifted, managing each other's time remains the difficult part of working together. Especially with the different schedule that each member's have. On the contrary, the problem was soon disentangled when we're able to do task division. Assigning each member with significant amount of work did us wonders. We were also able to finish ahead of schedule, leaving the finishing touches to be done on the morning of presentation. I guess maybe we're ready for the working world. Hopefully......

Final Project: Creation Process

On the 8th of November (still the holidays), we gathered at Design Studio to start constructing this huge monstrosity of a base. We bought five thick styrofoams, arranged them together and cut a big circle. We then continued pasting all these styrofoams together. Later, we covered the circle with papier mache and left it to dry.

On that same day, we began constructing the bumpies as well. We figured out the best way to construct it is by measuring and cutting one piece of the iron mesh and just fold it into a bumpy. We also fold the pointy parts of the iron mesh, to make wrapping the bumpy with coloured plastic easier.

From the picture above, you'll see the bumpy being wrapped with the red coloured plastic. There was a bit of a difficulty where these plastic wrappers are easily torn, repairs were done multiple times throughout the creation process.

We coloured the base based on the aforementioned colour palette which are lighter-toned secondary colours. A LOT of poster paint were sacrificed during the making of this tremendously-sized base. We used a lighter tone so that it won't look too intense when it accompanies the bumpies.

The bumpies are wrapped with the primary colours palette.The emoticons are made from cardboard cut-outs painted with poster colour paint. We also made rods out of tissue roll tubes painted with silver spray paint and tied them to the the bumpies. A smaller base was made to make it easier for us to attach the bumpies to the 'lazy susan'.

Wait for the reveal of our final product.

Final Project: Ideation Process

Based on the knowledge we had gathered from our colour theory study, we are to make a sculpture for our final project. We get to pick the theme for the sculptures, and the whole class wanted everyone to follow that particular theme. With the majority's vote, we picked 'Carnival' as our theme. Hence, the sculpture sketching begins.

Here we have some of the presented sketches that we showed to the class. There's the popcorn, the one giant cotton candy, a collection of cotton candy on a pole, and even the balloons. However, these were not the ones that were chosen as our final sculpture as they are not exactly things that you'll actually come to a carnival. So, we decided on something that's a bit more outstanding and not a giant unedible version of an edible item like a ride. 

Therefore, the bumpies were borne. Here we have the initial plans for our bumpies. The bumpies are to be made using the primary colour palette with each coloured bumpies pasted with different emojis. For making the bumpies spin, we decided to use the 'lazy susan' as our spinning mechanism.In the early sketches, we thought that we can get some sparklers to put on top of our rods.

Later on, with the advice from Ms. Lisa we tried to mix it up with the colour palette to avoid it from looking too plain. We tried adding different palettes to the base that accompanies the bumpies such as complimentary colours, darker hues, and even lighter hues. However, the one we favoured was the palette with lighter tone of secondary colours that relates the colour of an area of the base to each bumpy such as blue to green, red to purple, and also yellow to orange.

Here's the final sketch for our bumpies with the colour palettes as told. Other additions to the final design is that all bumpies will in fact spin as well with the 'lazy susan' mechanism. We are also hoping to make the bumpies actually bumping into each other in true bumper car action. Hence, a resize of the bumpies and base is in order to ensure that they are placed correctly for the bumpies to bump each other. The size will also need to be increased to proportion it with the other artworks.

Our next move is to make mock-up of our sculpture, we have a bit of difficulty to make the colours a lighter tone. Still, we managed to make it so that it'll be our returning reference point for the the creation of our masterpiece.