January 2011 - May 2011
Bumblebee CAD Animation
E128 - Advanced Engineering Graphics
Spring 2010 with Professor Lieu
Earned the Alexander and Ethel Levens Award for excellence in engineering graphics, computer aided design, 3D modeling and animation
- Software - Pro/Engineer Wildfire & 3D Studio Max
- Modeling - Reverse engineered Bumblebee the Transformer from an action figure toy. Collaborated with a team of four over three months to model and assemble the eighty components. Personally modeled twenty individual leg components from the hip to the toes.
- Assembly - Components assembled with translational and rotational constraints on each joint. Inverse kinematics tools were used to simulate the robotic motion of the transformer.
- Animation - Rendered a 10 minute animation with multiple scenes and transitions. Animated the assembly of the eighty components and transformation from robot to automobile. Included sound track, lighting, and special effects. Wrote an entertaining storyboard with Bumblebee dancing after the final credits.
P51-B 3D Model
E128 - Advanced Engineering Graphics
Spring 2010 with Professor Lieu
- Surface Model - Created a 3D surface model of a vintage P-51B Mustang plane in 3D Studio Max. Applied surface material finishes and insignia details created in Photoshop. Rendered a short animation of the plane flying over Berkeley campus. Individual project completed over the course of three weeks.
- Animation - Used keys and motion controllers to generate the flying path of the plane. Created an illusion of spinning propellers by using a glass disk. Also generated an illusion of a 3D campus by mapping a 2D photo onto the inside surface of a 3D sphere.
Automatic Pencil Sharpener
ME130 - Planar Machinery
Spring 2010 with Professor Yousseffi
- Project - Designed and built an automatic pencil sharpener that used a four bar mechanism to move a sharpener into place to sharpen a rotating pencil. The pencils were fed into the device and fell through the bottom when finished.