Volume
Short Animation, Product Design Prototype
2020
Volume reimagines the vinyl record as a sphere - a deliberate transformation of data from a flat utility into a physical presence.
By adding dimension to a 2D medium, the object gains weight and 'volume' through its own inefficiency.
It is a tribute to the heavy, emotional gravity of physical media in an age of weightless, digital overload.
Besides modeling, texturing and animating, I spent a good amount just figuring out the functional aspect of this object. How one would go about changing a record and put another album in the device? How it will move from one song to another etc.
I got into all those small details when designing the object.
This is still an idea and a project that for me is unfinished, where I dream of the opportunity of designing and building a working model of this piece.
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