Unfolding Objects

With this unfolding exercise, I wanted to test various shapes and practice my workflow. I also used it as an opportunity to see if a guitar would be feasible from papercraft. I practiced making various components of the guitar in its most basic geometric form. This gave me a sense of how I would need to unfold it so it could be put back together.

A basic unfold test on angled elements.

Guitar Body: This one was a failue, but an easy fix. I would just need to put every other piece on the either side.

Guitar Bridge: Separated into two unfolded forms.

Top of a guitar neck. Bottom angles might need to be a separate piece.

Guitar Saddle, straightforward. Would glue to top of body.

Guitar Pickup. Again, would glue to surface of body.

Unfold practice, lofted point object.

More unfold practice, this time twisted.

A Guitar volume knob.

A better version of a guitar volume knob.

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