Meet “Bubble”, the comfy time capsule spaceship I designed for my teddy bear Xiao Xin.
I got inspired by a sci-fi fiction called “Filed of Gold” by Liu Cixin. The story is about a girl who was accidentally sent into the space on a doomed voyage. She was live-streaming 24/7 in her spaceship, and all the people on Earth watched her everyday. That live-stream never stops, and the girl became the goddess of hope. It’s super romantic and that’s how I imagined my time capsule should be like.
Illustration of the lonely but hopeful astronaut
in the “Filed of Gold” by Liu Cixin
I sketched a bubble-like spaceship with two layers. My teddy bear will sit in the inner bubble with a comfy chair. There are also two torus-shape orbits that can rotate around the inner bubble to maintain balance and use gravity to move the bubble around. There’s also a floating screen in between the inner bubble and the outer bubble. The screen is a computer that can live stream what’s going on inside the bubble. The screen can also rotate around the inner bubble to capture all the angles of the teddy bear. There are also food and entertainment materials for my teddy bear inside the spaceship. The outer bubble is made of reinforced glass that’s transparent and very firm.
I designed 3D models in Adobe Dimension:
Screenshot of the 3D model of Bubble in Adobe Dimension
This is the first render I got:
3D rendering of the Bubble spaceship with glass texture
It looks a little bit blurry because I used frosted glass for outer bubble and regular glass for the inner bubble. The obits are made of beer. The screen is made of glitter.
To make the outer level more transparent and provide living system to my teddy bear, I changed the outer material to water. So there will be water surrounding the layer between outside glass and inner bubble, which is also what most spaceship are designed.
3D rendering of water outside the inner bubble
And here are more angles of the model:
The teddy bear is scratching its hip???
My computer was down when I was making more renderings, so I have to rebuild the model…and now it’s distorted…Maybe it’s how it looks like 100 years later. My bear was swelled because the water leaked inside…and the screen doesn’t work anymore and only shows snowflakes.
Distorted bubble time capsule
Oh no, and the inner glass is broken as well…
Broken time capsule