Inflatable Art and the Last Day of Class

Today was the last day of our 3D Design class. This final inflatable spider was one of the hardest projects that I have ever done! It was fun, sort of. My sewing prowess really came in handy for this. Over all, the spider came out really well, but deflation was our biggest enemy. Here is a pictorial, from start to finish.

This is the setup, before we started melting the seams together with an iron.

Construction. Foil on either side of the plastic insulates it and creates a better seal, as well as protecting it from the bare iron.

What project isn't complete without a casualty?? RIP Alex's heat gun. Sorry Alex! I really did wonder what that smell of melting plastic was...

Spider assembled and complete, just waiting for air. That proved to be the hardest part.

Web installation almost complete. We changed a few of the webs around, and added a few I believe.

Our spider deflating as we speak, but nonetheless installed in a site-specific manner.

Close up of the head. Look at the eyes, Look at the palps and fangs! We added an amazing amount of detail to this little (or uh...big) guy.

A lot of blood, sweat and tears for a few pieces of melted plastic. (There seems to be a lot of that lately...)

Hours and Hours to build and install, and two second to rip down. Sad.