Sly Fox Mask
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Timeline
Services
STUDIO PROJECT
5 WEEKS
FLAT-PACK SLOT-AND-TAB CONSTRUCTION
Research Overview
To guide the design decisions, I selected the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) as my target species. These small, cavity-nesting birds are common across much of North America and readily use man-made birdhouses. Their specific nesting needs—including entrance diameter, interior dimensions, and placement height—played an essential role in shaping the birdhouse’s form, scale, and features.
To guide the design decisions, I selected the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) as my target species. These small, cavity-nesting birds are common across much of North America and readily use man-made birdhouses. Their specific nesting needs—including entrance diameter, interior dimensions, and placement height—played an essential role in shaping the birdhouse’s form, scale, and features.
Synthesis
Tracing overlays were created overtop various selected images of foxes to identify it’s defining features. Through experimentation, these features were translated in a variety of ways until settling on a design that felt most representative of it’s form. Following my 2D analysis of the fox and it’s defining features, I began to translate my design ideas into 3D. To start, I played around with the Bristol — making various forms of the jowls, eyes, tufts of hair, eyebrows, whiskers, and ears. During this process, numerous articulation points were added to the ears to play with the folds and get them to sit exactly as desired.
To guide the design decisions, I selected the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) as my target species. These small, cavity-nesting birds are common across much of North America and readily use man-made birdhouses. Their specific nesting needs—including entrance diameter, interior dimensions, and placement height—played an essential role in shaping the birdhouse’s form, scale, and features.
Communicating Assembly
