The Journey

Entire Journey: The Final Week

This project started as a simple very surface level fan art about monster hunter. But I brain stormed a little bit more and made it more personal. I came to Canada at such a young age that I practically grew up here, and what came with that was the lack of Filipino Lore that I missed. This was time to catch up on that by creating keycaps that are about Filipino Mythology that does not discriminate meaning as long as the myth sounds interesting I will look in it even if it is from the South of the Philippines where I did not grow up. 

Research

It all started with research where I got to learn more about the myths that span the Philippines and these were the ones that I found were the most interesting and most relevant. I read the up on the myths and searched up images of them and classic symbolisms of them and created designs for each one. This process was the most important to me and the most fun as I got to again learn about myths. My favorite design is Bathala's it's so simple and yet represents them. 

3D Modeling

Modeling was very simple I just had to create the key cap and make it modular, the great thing about this design is that it’s very easy to re model the design that is seen on the top of the key cap with a simple Boolean difference.

Fabrications and Refinements

The print process took quite a long time because so many projects were due and there was a resin shortage but it came out how I hoped. These were supposed to be test prints but they came out so nice with some minor issues which I had to remedy.

The prints came out nicely the surface was very smooth but there was a slight imperfection on the inside that had the bumps left over from the the supports that were on the inside. Brian and I talked about painting them over but I put them on my keyboard and loved how they looked already.

The supports were really visible when I put them onto the keyboard, it was made worse with the rgb lights in the dark. I shaved these down but it left scratch marks which did not go away even with water. 

So I got some Modge Podge to fill in the scratches so that it disappears.

This is how they came out they looked much better than how they came especially on the keyboard.