“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice,” the president said.

This medallion is a celebration of Frederick Douglass.

How I Designed This

The purpose of this model was to develop a method for students to quickly make coins and medallions for a mystery artifact history project. https://designmaketeach.com/2017/01/11/mystery-artifact-lesson/ Student have struggled to make convincing replica coin/medallion designs in Tinkercad. Importing svg files as extrusions takes away some of the visual impact of a true bas relief. To achieve the effect in the medallion. I found a bust of Frederick Douglass http://www.123dapp.com/123C-3D-Model/Historical-Bust--Frederick-Douglass/751586 and then imported it into Meshmixer. I plane cut away the base and then plane cut the model in half. I transformed the model in one axis and flatten the model. I exported the model as an STL then imported it into Tinkercad. I added a coin base and a date using Tinkercad tools. Exported the STL and then brought it into Sketchfab to create the render.

About Frederick Douglass

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/more-and-more-about-frederick-douglass_us_5892855fe4b01a7d8e512b13

“Frederick Douglass has done an amazing job …

• Enduring the inhumanity of slavery after being born heir to anguish and exploitation but still managing to become a force for solace and liberty when America needed it most,
• Recognizing that knowledge was his pathway to freedom at such a tender age,
• Teaching himself to read and write and becoming one of the country’s most eloquent spokespersons,
• Standing up to his overseer to say that ‘I am a man!’
• Risking life and limb by escaping the abhorrent institution,
• Composing the Narrative of his life and helping to expose slavery for the crime against humankind that it is,
• Persuading the American public and Abraham Lincoln that we are all equal and deserving of the right to live free,
• Establishing the North Star newspaper when there was very little in the way of navigation or hope for the millions of enslaved persons,
• Supporting the rights of women when few men of such importance endeavored to do so,
• Arguing against unfair U.S. immigration restrictions,
• Understanding that racism in America is part of our “diseased imagination,”
• Recruiting his sons—who were born free—to fight in the war to end the enslavement of other African Americans,
• Being appointed the first black U.S. Marshal by President Rutherford B. Hayes,
• Being appointed U.S. Minister to Haiti by President Benjamin Harrison,
• Serving as a compelling role model for all Americans for nearly two centuries.”

Source

Historical Bust - Frederick Douglass by Autodesk Premium http://www.123dapp.com/123C-3D-Model/Historical-Bust--Frederick-Douglass/751586

License: Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license

Category: Coins & Badges