Cast Thinking Study of a Jellyfish bonsai pots

 



At first the assignment was really fun, and my Imagination ran with different ways to use this Process of making a slip cast, ’cause I’ve love watching videos of Slip cast tiktok, and it looks so much fun, and there’s so much you can create with it. 


I started with sketches and mind maps before I went into rhino





But it felt like I haven’t touched Rhino since last year, so I didn’t do great at first. I just kept forgetting things and had to Google a lot of stuff, had to watch tutorials from last year a little bit, and problem solve on  ALOTT.






I started with just making a wireframe of the entire object, thinking that it would work. I just kept struggling, though, with the concept of it and figuring out the best way to place it inside the foam with the sizing and the no overhang restriction.
tentacle 
wire frame of jellyfish head? body?

Which At first I kept making designs that I would create end up having an overhang, then I would be like, OK, could I flip it on its side, could that work, but then I couldn’t understand at first why and how it would work and how it would come out of the slip cast.





I kept really questioning what I was doing wrong because I’ve seen so many videos with the internal chambers of a slip cast, and I just couldn’t figure out! I just could not get my brain around it 
 Because this was a bonsai pot, it needed a drainage hole . It would be impossible for it to come out of the slip cast because of the drainage hole in the internal chamber (if the design was on its side,) 

I realized that most slip casts don’t have to make an internal wall because they pour them out, and I had to look at a lot of tutorials about it because I thought that you don’t have to, but maybe this might be a new restriction later on that I can figure out later.

this pic really help me



But then I realized that I was also looking at the reversed mold wrong. I was actually looking at the proper mold of it and not the reverse mold, which would be on the other side of a box, not the side that I booleanDifference  from, if that made sense.

From there I did at first design the whole thing with tentacles, but just because I was having so many difficulties, my brain just could not fully understand it I couldn't understand how to get the design to work I was trying to flip it upside down at 1st and then I was trying to put it on its side and then I was putting it on the wrong side and then I just couldn't figure it out but I think that had to lot to do with not looking at the right side of the boolean different box which was like my mold casting. I’ve never even worked with ceramics, so all of this feels really new and a little bit frustrating at some points, but it was really exciting too.

My goal for the rest of this is to turn the jellyfish into a proper jellyfish, not just the top part being a jellyfish


I ran out of time with the tentacles, whatever things that jellyfish have, and I will be adding them later.





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