Retro-device final outcome

This five-week modelling course gave me a very intense experience, as the subject required me to do more in-depth research in areas I had never noticed before, and I did not have the relevant knowledge. At first I thought of something very complex, even an antique with a very complicated functioning principle, but when I tried to make a rough shape, neither steam nor light could be presented directly on the object, and I searched art websites for keywords in order to clearly find the same features between the two, but I didn’t find any useful information. I went to academic websites but couldn’t find anything either. When I started the second week of classes I still didn’t have a clear idea of what I wanted to do, but rather than just pick one and start working on it, I asked my classmates for help first. The communication was very helpful and my classmates helped me to clarify some unclear concepts. And I had a device that I wanted to make, ditching the complicated idea，using wind energy, wheel and gears to make an octave box. The simplest and most straightforward works best for me now. I have combined an octave box powered by internal parts with a wind chime rings by wind energy. The first octave box invented by the Swiss Antoine Fabre in 1796, the largest cabinet jukebox, the most demanding playing environment and what has been described as the most “delicate” octave box – this is the first octave box invented by the Swiss Antoine Fabre in 1796. Although hundreds of years have passed, the winding and gears of the inner case are still intact and can be used not only to play music but also as a stamp. The piano, which used perforated paper as ‘sheet music’ and was played by compressing the airbag with a compressed air current and then pulling the arm lever, was created in the 19th century and was a precursor to the phonograph. I tried to use this concept in my modelling, using air flow to move the parts of the octave box to make beautiful music. The most difficult part of the modelling was the wings of the little girls， After trying one of each, I felt that the hand shape was too limited for the octavo and chose wings. I used a cylinder and then cut and stretched the model, after making some adjustments, I got the shape I have now. When applying the material, I actually wanted a simple wood grain texture at first, but then, out of some personal understanding, I made the octavo, which had always been popular with wood grain, into a material with a modern twist. I think the thing that kept bothering me was how to execute the shapes I had in mind and use the basic objects to make the prototypes of the parts. I have actually found a number of times during the piecing process where I built something wrong and tried to change it but already spent a lot of time here, maybe sometimes after the change I still thought the previous one looked better. The model that came out was very different from what I had imagined. I had to try to pick the important areas and rebuild them, then do test-and-error to get the desired effect, in terms of the results I think I may have made too simple model and not done enough research to support my ideas, but this is the best I can do at this stage after getting familiar with the various software.