Senior Thesis Show! My classmates are Awesome!

Wow Looking through my camera I have not been posting enough! Here are some shots from IDSA.

Here are shots from the Senior Thesis Show night at school. It was really when most of us were officially done with school. My classmates are pretty awesome!

Fin!

I know that yet again it has been a while since I have posted but get ready for more of a regular basis! I am officially finished with school as of 8:00 tomorrow evening!

Four years of non-stop work will have come to an end! I am sad and to be honest it hasnt hit me yet. (We shall see how that goes)

Here are the final shots of my last meeting with Aiden! My thesis is finished and so are my appearance models! Everything turned out pretty good! I am content with it all. I will post everything tomorrow but wanted to share my last photo shoot with you all!








Tomorrow evening is the Industrial Design Departments Senior thesis show at Canzani Auditorium. Come if you can! 5 - 8! I will post others projects as well! Everyone has been working their little tushes off! Go us!

Card Packaging!!!!!!!

Here are the packages for the cards that are going in to the main package of the unit.

I am pretty happy with them I am still tweaking but I wanted to keep them simple since it is a therapy tool. I was avoiding it this whole time but I really love how they are turning out so far! I hope that you enjoy them! I am finishing them tonight and will be hopefully mocking them up tomorrow sometime!

Dice finished!!!!

Here are some quick shots of the dice finished. ( More will come later whenever I can get in to the photo lab... ) I wanted to share with you that something got done :)

I added a little tag with a sample of the logo on it as most toys do. I think it looks cool when you see it.

Final renderings begin.

Here are some final shots that are bring rendered for thesis. I made all of the adjustments. The pieces are now all male female so that the kids have an easier time getting the board together any way that they would like.

I have also begun work on the dice! Thank to some help from a friend. The dice should be finished by tonight! It is coming along it is nice! It is just a shroud at the moment but it is looking nice.




Next step taking on the task of cutting the board.

Here is a sneak peek of what will be the dice. I went to Stitch by Stitch at the Easton Town Center and was able to get some samples and tags made. I am so excited to finish the dice!


I have started to sew it tonight and hopefully it will be done by tomorrow or Thursday.

I am so happy with how the branding came out for this.

Branding

This is some of what I am leaning towards for the final branding of my game for my thesis. What do you all think? I feel that the ampersand can be tweaked still.

Thesis Branding

This week has been full of working on things, that wont quit for a while. :) I hope that everyone is starting to enjoy the nice weather that we are starting to get ( At least in Ohio).

I have only just begun to work on my branding and Identity for my thesis and I wanted to share it with you and see what you thought. These were done mainly to explore color . I personally and liking the bottom ones a lot more than the top.


More will be done this weekend! I will share it with you all when it is finished.

Product Testing

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to visit good friend of mine, Aiden. Aiden is just under 3 and is full of personality. I love this kid, so cute!

I went to visit to test out the sizing of my board and the ball, along with the cards. I really needed to see how he reacted to the pieces and what he did with them without anyone telling him, also when there was direction what he did with it. I also needed a parents personal opinion on what was going on with all of the pieces and shapes and sizes.

All and all a great evening. It was great to see him interacting with everything. The first thing that he did was step on the board. He would continually return to it too. he enjoyed putting the board together and then running across it.





When the dice came in he loved throwing it around too. He had fun throwing it and telling you what color it landed on. I did find that the ball was too big for him, so i will be working on making it a little smaller, that way it is easier to pick up and toss.

The cards were fine for him to see the images and figure out what they were for. The only thing is that I want to make it a thicker material. It is way to easy for them to bend it and rip it even tough it is two play card stock.


All of these issues will be talked about tomorrow during my midterm and then over the next week it will hopefully be figured out as well.

I wish I had more of the board done. But I will be stopping by again at the end of everything to take more photos and to play the whole game with him. It is gonna be fun.

Solid works revisited

Here are some revised shot of my would works model.


Yesterday I started to print them out on the 3D printer... here is the start of it! I can not wait to get it out and play with them!



They fit together! YEAH



The second batch is being printed right now and I will begin to sand and paint them so they can be photographed for Midterms in 2 weeks.

Progress

Even though I feel like I have caught the black plague, I have been trying desperately to still truck on and get 'er done!

The past two days I finished up the mock up of my dice, and have my first round of cards.

Here is the mock up of the dice. Just really simple I am going to take out some of the beans on the insde.


This is a quick video of what the ball.

These are some quick versions of cards. I chose that the big one is not necessary. So I am going to push more and rework the cards ( smaller) over the weekend.

Thesis: Solidworks

Here are the game pieces in a modeling program. The point of these are for the kids to be the playing pieces. To hit a therapy point ( Autistic Occupational Therapy) The children will be putting the game together however they want to. Teaching them directions, interaction with family and others, as well as logical thought.


The shapes pop out so that the kids can figure out that when they put the game together themselves - they can also place the shapes in to.




The larger sections can come apart. There is not start or stop point for the kids. This way it can look however the children want to, and also deal with space in the home or therapy room.


The pieces fit easily together and have many of the same shape for the children to figure out how to fit together.




These are just a few minor rendered shots. I will begin to fully render in the next few weeks.