Monday 03/06/19

• Took moulds from foundry down to Ceramics studio and started testing them out
• The clay is much softer than anticipated- I am used to more solid materials such as the wax, so de-moulding has proven more difficult- the clay loses shape as soon as you try to pull it out of the moulds
• I found leaving the clay in the moulds to dry a little helped, but not much
• I only managed to get one clay bone finished; I had to do a lot more work to it than I was used to doing with the wax to get it to look right, using the real bone for reference

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• I also popped into the 3D workshop to chat about the new scanner with the technician, Jonathan, and ended up doing a scan of one of my bones then and there

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Tuesday 04/06/19

• I booked out the photography studio last week for this morning, to photograph all my sculptures so far, with the help of Richard, the technician
• Ended up coming back after lunch and staying there til 3.30ish, as some pieces proved trickier to photograph

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• I took 360 pics of all the pieces except for the two brick casts and the bronze casts, and I plan to animate them into little gifs for my website
• I learnt a lot about how to light different shapes and materials, which I hope I can try to mimic at home with a flexible desk lamp, fabric, and a white table or sheet- Richard definitely taught me that you don’t always need the fancy equipment available at uni
• Didn’t get time to go to ceramics again, as planned, so I went to the 3D workshop to do more 3D scans instead
• I ended up with a few fixable scans, and one mutant scan- I scanned it twice at two different angles, but the software stitched it together wrong, giving me a mutant bone

Wednesday 05/06/19

• Made progress on remaking my Symposium video (I lost the entire thing because the programme I was using crashed)
• Had to go to work in the evening

Thursday 06/06/19

• Morning group tutorial- we discussed show details and I am happy with the space I have been allocated
• Edited one of the iPad bone scans and sent it to print
• Made some more progress on remaking the symposium video

Friday 07/06/19

• Visited Jonathan in 3D and scanned the bones that went wrong on Tuesday- he showed me how to do multiple scans and match them up to get a better 3D model
• I have one bone left to scan- I just need to do that and clean up the scans on MeshMixer and they will be ready to 3D print