Picasso Moth Folding Fan
A functional dual sided folding fan concept, featuring the patterns and aesthetics of a Picasso Moth.
TREVOR SLAY
CLIENT:
Completed in course curriculum.
Final project - Organic Mechanics
Instructor: Liz Hejny
Collaboration project with Trevor Slay.
COMPLETED:
04/15/2026
SOFTWARE:
Fusion 360
Solidworks
Keyshot
SKILLS LEARNED:
HDRI lighting enviornments
Keyshot animations
Virtual reality (VR) drawing
PROCESS
Modeled the head and body vessel in Fusion 360.
Created circular pattern to map the 34 blades with dual line up inside the body.
Embedded the spots as bodies, into the individual blades of the moth.
We used VR for the first time as a team to visualize our design in a 3D space.
I overlayed one of original ideation drawings to re-align our moth spots. I then sketched on each blade in Fusion 360.
A dual sided folding fan which represents the characteristics and coloring of a Picasso Moth.
The mechanism features a dual side folding fan with a grab hold at the top for convenience.
We rendered and animated our picasso moth fan in Keyshot and Premiere Pro.
REFLECTION
Our design intention for this assignment was to create a dual close mechanism folding fan concept which mimicked the coloring of a Picasso Moth. Trevor and I worked together as a team with me mainly completing the 3D model and Trevor and I working together on doing our turntable and our animation showcase. This project taught us alot about working on different planes inside our model, each of the blades of our fan was actually its own body, with the spots imbedded inside the blade. This proved to be challenging as the bodies only sometimes were supported inside Fusion.
Overall, we worked really well together and were able to successfully bring our vision to life. It was our first time working on a project like this in a collaboration so it was interesting to work together and figure out workload for each person while working simultaneously on different aspects in order to succesfully communicate our design while learning new tecniques together such as HDRI enviornments and new lighting modes which really showcased the fine details of our design!