FurDeliciousRhino

In my design process, I added alignment holes to make symmetrical/aligned assembly easier. I also chose to change the material of the bottom layer to mirrored acrylic because I cut the original wood stock smaller than the design. The top 3 layers have 3M adhesive sheet holding them to the layers underneath, essentially making the 4 layers into one sold piece to stop potential warping. After assembly I used a waterproof clear coat the further adhere the layers together and seal them from potential drink spills.

Coaster Project Design For my coaster project, I choose my Quad Coaster Design. It designed as a shared coaster to promote community and working together while keeping the dining table more organized. I am choosing to use 1/8" stained birch for my coaster assembled 2 sided tape, pin nails and waterproof clear coat. There will likely be stick-on rubber feet for it as well. Colours and engraving design can customize depending on the customer or business ordering them.  

 Concept Coasters My favorite top 3 coaster designs are the Exclamation Coaster (#2), the RGB Coaster (#3), Quad Coaster (#6). The exclamation point coaster came to me out of blue. I didn't like it at first because of how much excess material it has for no real purpose. Then it dawned on me, as I was drinking my tea drinker, that excess material could be used as a spoon holder and drip tray. I like the Quad Coaster design because I haven't seen anything like it and I feel it would be popular because it would keep tables more organized, and everyone likes a clean and organized space. It's also a "work together" experience. The RGB Coaster is my favorite because I love making light up art. I would probably combine both the RGB and the Under-Glow Coaster (#4), lighting up the drink with auto-rotating RGB LEDs side lighting engraved acrylic, as well as an under glow that lights up a limited space around the coaster. This coaster could be customized with different artw...

 Furdy's Castle Project   For my castle project, I was inspired by a game I have been playing for many years called Stronghold Crusader HD. I started with a smaller border with the same size towers, but quickly doubled the internal dimensions for better proportions. After review of the concept, I added more details such as windows, more doors, better textures, arrow windows in the towers and the gatehouse. A couple of things I struggled with were getting imported textures to scale properly which taught me how surface map objects, and structures appearing exploded after textures were applied which taught me about texture depth.     Concept VS Refined     In Progress Shots   Screenshots of a similar castle that I built in my game.