Gear flower!

 With my classmate we started to review each other's mash-up objects from last week. We were very impressed and entertained by how many concepts we could come up with and shared a few tips and recommendations. When she was telling me which concepts felt more appealing she pointed out my Citrus Perfume concept and the Gear Flower, saying how they were fun and pleasing.

I was debating which concept to use and at first I was very inclined in rendering the perfume! However, as I was playing with the materials I realized it was very hard for a transparent object to be capture (and have the color I wanted). Therefore I decided to give the flower a chance and got more excited! There was room to play with the textures and I liked the result.

I think this little creation is a good example of the possibilities within Remix Culture. Anyone can download a few objects in Thingiverse like I did, because people create them so they can be used, and come up with a fun idea they had in their head. You can tell that I basically made a variant plant that could live in the Mario universe by combining the piranha plant of the game with a couple of gears to replace the head of the plant.