zirma art of
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The Art Of Zirma
Concept
I was asked to create 3 Digital paintings representing a city taken from one of Italo Calvino’s books, Invisible Cities. The book has a variety of cities to choose from with each city having a different setting and feel about it. For my designs I chose the city of Zirma. This city was described as a place were the mad revelled in there skyscrapers and everywhere was full of repetition and madness. “in every skyscraper there is someone going mad”, “Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
Influences
Early Thumbnails for Zirma
Designing the Exterior For the Design of my exterior shot, I looked into City sea views such as manhattan. !I wanted my city to have an urban look and so I felt manhattan was a good city to study, especially because it has that long sea view that is very famous.
Designing the InteriorFor the design of my
interior shot, I looked into asylum corridor scenes.
seeing how the city it meant to be mad, I felt it was appropriate to make
the residence feel like they are trapped and in a mad person environment.
Designing the Low exteriorFor my Low Exterior shot I
looked into the city of Amsterdam. I looked into this city for the building structure, I felt that seeing how all the
building are of a tall,thin design I felt it gave a sense of
entrapment, making someone feel that there stuck in a small place without anywhere to go.
Final Concept Paintings