Nigora is creating

 This week was work time for the final revision of our papercraft objects! Class Critique response:  The main thing I needed to work on for the final was to add in the lighting so that my project properly glowed. Then it was to adjust the size of the box for the "Dear diary," side of my lightbox journal!  I bought 2 different types of LED lights for this project: Fairy lights and multi coloured lights. Both of these are from the dollar store.  On the left side of my lightbox journal I chose to use fairy lights to keep it a warm tone and give emphasis to the words.  For the right side I chose to use the coloured lights to give off the fantasy story telling vibe and make it stand out the most within the project.  The lights are threaded through a small square in the far side opposite to the spine of the lightbox journal so they can be turned off and on. Final: Renders: Print template (I reversed the colours as I mixed up the cut and score lines)

For this week we built the prototypes out of our printed templates. This was a very enlightening process for myself as I learned a lot about my piece and how I can improve it for the final!  I first decided to create the side of my light box object that said "Dear diary," to see how difficult it might be to glue the pieces in place at the proper height within the base. Once completed I found that there was a large amount of excess space within this side of the object so I plan of shortening the sides of the box base for this side in particular for the final. The next challenge was to create the other half of my journal papercraft. I found that the tabs were too long for all of the layers to fit so I trimmed them a little over half: Unfortunately, the 5th layer of the scene I was attempting to create still could not fit. As I will adjust the other half to be smaller with its box base this half will be made larger to accommodate all of the layers!   The final step was to pu...