【2022/03】WIP - Packaging | 過程 - 包裝 (Pixiv Fanbox)

Twitter and Pixiv have both reached 40,000 followers, thank you guys so much aaaaaaaaa ⁽⁽ଘ( ˙꒳˙ )ଓ⁾⁾

I've also got out of quarantine hotel recently, I can finally make more weird things for you guys!

推特和Pixiv都達成40,000粉絲啦，謝謝大家啊啊啊啊啊啊啊⁽⁽ଘ( ˙꒳˙ )ଓ⁾⁾

最近剛離開了隔離旅館，終於又可以為大家做些奇怪的商品啦！

Inspiration | 點子

Source | 來源：https://mymodernmet.com/pippa-dyrlaga-paper-cut-outs/

I've always wanted to do something with laser. This time, I got my inspiration from this article I randomly scrolled! I thought it'd be super cool to make a laser cut out of shota illustration that can be displayed in real life. However, I don't want to make it too complicated (like the image above) just in case if people get trypophobia.

我一直都很想玩雷射，這次的靈感來自偶然滑到的報導！如果能把正太插畫用雷射割出並且放在現實陳列我覺得會超酷的。但我不想弄到像上圖那樣密密麻麻的，以免有人會密集恐懼症

Concept | 概念

Here's the concept I want to make. The blue part is the laser carved out illustration, the frame is made out of transparent plastic sheets, clamped by two magnets in the bottom corner. There's a wooden block which holds everything in place.

這是我想做的概念，藍色的部分是雷射雕刻的插圖，框是透明的塑膠片，全部用下方兩顆磁鐵固定住。有個木製的底座可以將所有東西固定住這樣

Draft | 草稿

I want to make two versions of this, one with Mutoh and Sand, another one with Orbi and Duty Boy. For the purpose of testing the concept fesibility, I only make one design first.

This design is made to be very very small, roughly 9x9cm, because bigger prints are harder to mail without it breaking. With that said, the lasers will have to be very very intricate. Most shops only allow a minimum of 1mm gap, but my design requires roughly 0.2mm gap. The shop that we found to have the best precision was 0.5mm gap (although, theoretically, laser should be as precise as roughly 0.025mm or smaller).

Apart from the line width challenge, another challenge is to connect everything (since only the black parts are kept). This is why you see the lollipop was added for Mutoh (to connect the mouth) as well as why the band-aid on my face is so big (also to connect the mouth).

我想做兩個版本，第一版是武藤和沙子，另一版則是Orbi和值日生。為了測試設計的可行性，我目前只有先做一個設計。

這個設計非常非常地小，約略9x9cm，因為印太大的話則會在寄送過程比較容易斷裂。這同時也代表雷社會需要非常非常精確。大部分的雷射工廠都只接受1mm的縫隙，但我的設計的線條有細到0.2mm的。目前找到最好的廠商是0.5mm（儘管理論上來講，雷射可以精準到0.025mm或更細）

除了線條粗細的挑戰以外，另一個挑戰是要將所有線條連在一起（畢竟只有黑色的部分會保留）。這也是為什麼武藤嘴裡會有棒棒糖（用來將嘴巴連住）以及為什麼我臉上的OK繃會這麼大（一樣連嘴巴）

Line＆Lighting | 線條＆二分

Gray Scale | 灰階

I plan to make the gray parts by using halftones

我打算用網點來做出灰色的部分

Halftone | 網點

I converted the rasterized layer into vector shape first, then imported into Illustrator for further processing. The red line is where the laser will cut. I feel like there'll be a lot of issue when cutting this since there's so much detail XD

我先將點陣圖轉換為向量形狀，並且放進Illustrator 再加工。紅線就是雷射會切的地方。我感覺雕刻的時候會因為太多細節而出很多問題 XD

Draugnut's Suggestion | 爪爪的建議

@Draugnut gave a lot of useful suggestions again✧(*´ω｀*)

This time, he suggested that when drawing in black and white, maybe don't think in terms of drawing "gray-scale" but think in terms of "what reads better". So he recommended to either only keep lighting or only keep local color. I chose to keep local color for overall effect, but I kept the lighting on my hair so that I don't look so empty. It is a very difficult thing to balance. Furthermore, he also recommended that I can try out a bit more different patterns, although I still think diagnal lines are the best for this design as it is very clean, I do think that Mutoh's sleeves look great with a bit of variation.

@爪爪 又給了我好多很實用的建議✧(*´ω｀*)

這次，他建議說畫黑白時，最好不要以「灰階」思維去畫，而是以「可讀性」作為優先考量，所以他建議我只保留固有色或是光影的線條。我最後選擇整體保留固有色，但是我自己的頭髮上還是保留了光影，這樣看起來比較不單調，這平衡真的很難抓呢。此外，他也建議我嘗試更多不同的紋路，但我最後還是覺得斜線最乾淨最好看，不過武藤袖子上做一點變化也挺不錯的

Test Sample 1 | 測試樣品1

This is what the shop sent me as a test print. I have to say that it is super cool and I'm super excited ლ(◕ω◕ლ). Although many lines got killed as a result of lines being too thin, that can be easily fixed. I'm more surprised by how well they cut the halftones.

I will alter the design and wait for a test sample v2! Meanwhile I have to get back to drawing Our Toy (Part 9) and hopefully have some time to draw doujin this month XD

廠商發了這個樣本給我，我得說這真的超酷而且我也超期待的ლ(◕ω◕ლ)。雖然很多線條因為太細而被砍掉，這個稿件修正很容易的。我真的很意外他們網點切得這麼好。

修改好之後就等樣品v2啦！同時我也得開始畫Our Toy (Part9)，並且希望這個月還有時間能畫本子XD

Preping Material | 準備材料

The laser cutting place doesn't provide any paper for purchase, so we had to mail the paper to them as well.

Had to go to art supply store to buy the paper and the transparent sheets. The paper had to be very specific, 250g to be exact as too thin or too thick will make the design break when being laser cut.

由於雷射的公司不提供任何紙材，所以我們還得將紙寄過去。

特別跑了一趟美術用品店去買紙張及透明塑膠板。紙的要求挺麻煩的，必須要差不多剛好250磅，如果太薄或太厚都會導致這個設計在雷射時斷裂

Kudos to my dad for helping me cut all the transparent sheets into the right size XD

This is roughly how the final product will be put together.

特別感謝我爸幫忙我把所有透明塑膠板切成需要的大小XD

組裝後大概就像這樣

Draft 2 | 草稿 2

Of course there will be a version with these two :3c

I want this version to be not as intimate as the other one as they are supposedly not publicly together yet; therefore Duty Boy is mildly shy as Orbi blatantly have contact with him on record.

當然這對也會有自己的版本:3c

我想讓這張沒有另一張來得那麼親密，畢竟他們兩個還沒公開交往的關係，所以當Orbi很大膽地在相機前與值日生有接觸時，值日生感到有點害羞

Line＆Halftone | 線條＆網點

Draugnut's Suggestion | 爪爪的建議

@Draugnut felt the hands were not natural enough and there were size issues. He said that hands turning inside out feels less natural. Hand is really one of my great weaknesses ;w;

@爪爪 說他覺得手看起來不夠自然，同時也有一些大小的問題。他說反手感覺比較不自然這樣。看起來畫手真的是我一大弱點之一;w;

Test Sample 2 | 測試樣品2

That's super cool if you ask me!!! ლ(◕ω◕ლ)

我覺得超酷的啦！！！ლ(◕ω◕ლ)

They mentioned how some parts "curve up", which isn't a big problem as I'll be pressing them down using the transparent sheets anyways. Time to wait for them to produce this in larger quantity :DDD

他們說有些地方會「翹起」，但我覺得不是大問題，畢竟最後都會用透明的塑膠版夾起來。現在就等他們大量生產了:DDD

Cards | 卡片

This time there's a custom card too (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

I tested out many different papers and spent quite a lot of time at the printing shop. Originally I wanted something shiny, something that makes the receiver feel "oh, this is different", but unfortunately, after some writing test, the inks won't dry, and it smudges easily. In the end, I had to choose a rather plain paper qwqqq

這次還有特製的卡片喔(｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

我花了不少時間在印刷廠測試不同的紙。原本我想要一個閃亮表面的紙，讓收到的人會一看就覺得「噢這不太一樣」，但我測試寫了很多張，墨水在表面都乾不了而且很容易抹髒。最後我就只能選一個看起來很普通的紙qwqqq

Final Product | 最終產品

aaaaaaaaaaaaaand the final product has arrived!!!

I'm super happy with how it turned out, I literally sat there staring at it for 10 minutes straight in contentment (｡・//ε//・｡). I mean, just look at the details, I honestly didn't expect this to work this well XD. The only thing I'm unhappy about is how the wood blocks we bought has a random "nature" printed on it, hopefully that won't be too distracting

將將將將將將將將將將完成品終於收到啦！！！

我對成品真的超滿意的，我坐在那邊自滿地盯著看了10分鐘(｡・//ε//・｡)，看看那些細節，我真的沒想到會成功做出來XD。我唯一不滿意的是我們買的木磚有一個看起來很隨便的「nature」印在上面，希望不會太干擾

Quality Control | 品管

There are a lot of left-over scraps or broken pieces on the designs. I had to manually pick out every single one of them myself with a pair of very fine tweezers. It's a super fine work, I often find myself holding my breathe as I did it as any carelessness could result the paper breaking ww

成品上有很多沒清乾淨的碎屑，我得用很精細的鑷子將每一個都自己挑出來。我發現我在弄的時候常常會閉氣，畢竟一不小心就可能會把紙弄斷ww

These are all the "NG" ones, it's probably not obvious as to why they are NG at first glance. My criteria is that if a prominent area is broken, then it's NG. In this case, most of the NGs are noses disappearing (especially on Mutoh and Orbi).

Not sure what I'll do with those, perhaps I'll just use them as wallpaper or something ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

這些全都是「不合格品」，也許一般人可能無法第一時間看出來為什麼這些不合格。我的標準是如果有重要的地方斷掉，那就不合格。這次的話，大部分的不合格都是鼻子整個消失（尤其是在武藤和Orbi身上）。

我不確定該怎麼處理這些，也許會拿來當家裡的壁紙之類的吧∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

Packaging | 包裝

We had to wipe clean the plastic sheets first to minimize dust going in the design, then aligning the design with the plastic sheet perfectly while adding strong magnets to them. All of which were done while wearing gloves to minimize oil getting onto the surface. This took me and my dad an entire day to do ʕ´• ᴥ•̥`ʔ

我們得先將透明塑膠板再擦過一遍來減少被夾進去的灰塵，然後將設計與塑膠板完美地對其，並且同時用強力磁鐵固定住位置。為了避免油脂弄髒設計，我們全程都還戴著手套。我跟我爸花了一整天的時間在弄這個ʕ´• ᴥ•̥`ʔ