project 1 - invisible cities
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Space and EnvironmentProject 1 – Invisible Cities
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Sankavy Balasingam
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Contents
My 100 Thumbnail drawing exploring all the cities
My chosen city
Mission statement
Visual concept influence map
Key Thumbnails
Creative Partnership archived
Film reviews
Maya Tutorials
Key description
Associated thumbnails
Exterior concept map
Interior concept map
Movie concept map
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My Thumbnail drawings
My first 4 thumbnail sketches were done very loose and with lessdetail, but it didn’t have the feeling of a city.
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In these sketches you can clearly see that Istarted going abstract and not focus on being
too defined with my mark making. Especially if
you looked at 75. It looks like a scene from a
Movie and that was my aim was. I start looking
at perspectives and they are visible in these
and in my previous thumbnails.
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My Thumbnail drawings
It is a good using Photoshop for quick thumbnails but when it comes
to being more detailed, it is better to do it on your sketchbooks.
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My chosen city is Baucis
Key description:
I have highlighted the
parts that I thoughtwere interesting.
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My Thumbnail sketch for Baucis
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Done some rough pencil
sketches of Baucis. I thought
of Baucis as a city that likes its
silence and that the people
might be very spiritual. Thisincludes a temple with a gods
statues.
Out of all the Baucis
thumbnails, I believe that65,71,72,75,3 and 4 seem like
places in the city or even
outside of it and they also go
well with the description of
this city.
1 2
3 4
I made these quick sketches partially to see how
certain areas might turn out as before I focus on large
thumbnail sketches, colour, perspective and angle.
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Mission Statement
Reading over the long description about each of the cities, you would expect someone
to get a lot of ideas and inspiration but I didn’t find anything exciting that attracted my
attention. However, while reading the short passage about Baucis; I immediatelythought “Baucis is a city up in the clouds and hidden deep in the woods, you wouldn't
even know of its existence unless you look closely up in the sky .” To my understanding I
believe that the inhabitants would like their existence be unknown to the world and live
a private life.
The way I visualize the city is very unique and surreal, the narrative for this city is
about how the traveler goes through ‘dark woods’ which indicate different directionsand overcomes obstacles in order to arrive at this paradise that provides peace and
harmony. He’ll arrive but yet will not find it until he looks up and sees the ladders
placed over the cliffs that ‘ll lead him there. As he arrives he won’t believe his eyes andwalks through the city and be mesmerized about how everything seems ordinary. The
people who don’t touch usually come down to earth will still see everything by sitting in
a tent that takes you down to observe the little wonders. A waterfall so beautiful you
would be willing to say here forever and a temple with people so involved withspirituality and meditation. A normal city with the inhabitants living an ordinary joyfullife and respect any of their visitors and warmly welcome them to their home. My target
audience would be based everyone from the age of 5 and onwards and anyone who likes
to dream of a perfect city.
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Visual Concept Map – Interior
My main influences are things you don’t
really see in everyday life. I did someresearch and found out about children
who climb up the ladders on cliffs to goto school and thought that this is
something that strongly links in with my
idea and the concept of a hidden city.
Houses with stilts are commonly found in
Thailand and they exactly describe howthe city might look from a closer view.The temples that can be seen from
different angles which also includes the
temple in Peru built in the late 15th
century.
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In the description we are told about how
the inhabitants rarely come down toearth because of the respect they have
for it.
So I wanted to find something that shows
the people still visiting earth but without
touching the ground, the idea I had was a
type of tent that hangs from the clouds
and over earth. Another feature I was
interested in was to show, how there are
similarities between the two places and
that everything we see below is also
available above the clouds.
Visual Concept Map – Exterior
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Visual Concept – MoviesI chose the movies Brave, Epic and
Dragon Age primarily because of the
texture used in the concept art. I
like to see how they were precise
with their mark marking but not
overdo it at the same time.
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Key Thumbnails
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4
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Movie Reviews
http://kavybala.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/the-cabinet-of-
drcaligari-robert-wiene.html
http://kavybala.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/le-voyage-dans-
le-lune-film-review.html
http://kavybala.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/metropolis-film-
review-1927.html
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Maya Tutorials
http://kavybala.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/maya-tutorial-1-egg-cups.html
http://kavybala.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/maya-tutorial-
character-modelling.html
http://kavybala.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/maya-tutorial-
character-modelling-1.html