CMU School of Drama


Monday, October 24, 2011

Tech Direction III Class at the Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire

10 comments:

seangroves71 said...

Way to go seniors (and grads) all of these look insane. now we can get them out of the shop! just kidding, these all look really good and i know how many hours were put into just cutting out all of the pieces, let alone assembling all of them.

A. Surasky said...

Saw the Tech Direction folks working on this over the weekend. It's always cool to see something from childhood get supersized and blown up like this. It's a really cool idea to get it all together, and it's great that it's possible to get all this stuff cut with the CNC router, although I'm sure it took a while to get it all cut on that. Cool project, and looks everybody had a good time enjoying the dinosaurs.

Luke Foco said...

This according to my parents who were there with me was one of the cooler installations there. The maker fair had some cool pieces there but I think that next year we could bring another booth. It was great to see diy 3d printers and other robots. Specifically the sauerkraut robot was interesting.

Katherine Eboch said...

These are some great pictures from the maker faire. I took a lot of pictures as well that can be found at the following site: http://bit.ly/sDsFdb

And if anyone is interested we will be selling the dinos as a showcase fundraiser, just let me know!

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David P said...

Good job guys! I love the childlike nature that our art frequently takes on. Most of us can probably remember the miniature dinosaur puzzles that we would take home from science museums; the ones made from balsa that we would try and snap off the sheet, breaking the most important piece by mistake and leaving the entire puzzle unusable (god forbid the tail piece break, no no it has to be the neck bone!). The point I'm trying to make is that things like this always make for an enjoyable sight. I appreciate you guys' work.

Charles said...

It's certainly always nice to build some nice PR in the community and get involved with other organization. What a perfect opportunity to get involved with an organization that is not only non-theatre, it's non-cmu. It seems like the guys were really able to show off what they've been working on, and as David points out, I hope it really made someone's day to see such a familiar childhood sight blown up to a new scale. Involved organizations like this one with our classes = awesome.

cass.osterman said...

I am currently taking a scenic painting class on Friday mornings, and for the majority of the semester, we have been working on one of these larger dinosaurs. Specifically, we have been adding girth/mass to it (foam and bubble wrap), laying down a workable surface (cheesecloth dipped in glue), and texturing/painting it to looking like a living breathing dinosaur. So, needless to say, I've been getting up close and personal with this dino for some time now. To those who made it: great job. The choice of how "bones" would fit together, and the proportions of those bones, were very true to (our understanding of) the real look of the dinosaur with flesh. Also, the center of gravity was well considered- hasn't toppled over yet! But the neck and tail are under a lot of stress do to how they cantalliver out from the mass of the torso.

tspeegle said...

I brought my wife and a few friends from out of town to the maker faire. They were very impressed with the Dino's and had questions about the construction. Overall, I think this was a success for SOD.

Page Darragh said...

I walked out into the lobby of Purnell the other day and was caught by surprise by these massive dinosaurs just hanging out. They look amazing though! Throughout my mini in paints I got to somewhat see them in progress and how they came together and I even got to paint some of the base coat on a few of the spikes of the dinosaurs back! They came out amazing and all of the grads and seniors hard work paid off! Job well done!