The last term of the first year begins! Feels like term one was just a few moments ago, Gnomon is really going fast. So this term I have a lot of design classes: Digital Painting, Creature Design, Environment Design, Vehicle Design, Sculpture 2 and Film History. That is a heck of a lot of digital painting.... I hope I can wrap my head around that soon!
So the first week wasn't too bad there was a lot of work but after some of the crunch of term 3 and the early mornings of term 2 I barely broke a sweat. I even found time to cook and exercise yay!
Creature design had us working on static cages for both quadrupeds and bipeds. Though it keeps the designs a little stiff it really helps with perspective. I think I may have goofed on this homework though I kinda skipped the all important ideation stage and just went straight from research to final designs. As a result I am not all that happy with my designs for this week. Lesson learned I won't make that mistake next week.
I also had to design 3 humanoid, 3 herbivore and 3 carnivore designs based on a planet very similar to earth. My twist on the planet design was to have earth 2.0 to have a blanket of pollution and dust that limits the amount of light reaching the surface (think Interstellar). That means that all my creatures are very malnourished and forced to rely on roots and weeds for nutrition. I looked at a lot of scavenger reference and for the humans a balance of severely malnourished humans mixed with some circus freak reference.
I do kind of like my rat host design (top right) the concept is that this rodent has formed a symbiotic relationship with a sentient fungus. The rodent feeds the fungus from its own mass and the fungus works as a poisonous smoke bomb against predators when they are both attacked.
For digital painting I did a still life study of something on my desk using the painting techniques we learned in class. It was weird for me because there was no sketch stage I had to go straight to rendering. It actually worked though I really like the final outcome!
The second step was to do 10 thumbnails that purely use atmospheric perspective. Just relying on the rule that things become de-saturated and usually lighter as they recede into the background. This was pretty fun and also gave me another chance to work on my composition.
For vehicle class I had to do two master copies and 8 'Spaceboxes.' I liked both assignments but the space boxes were especially fun! The task was to take a rough boxy shape and make it look dynamic with decals or cut lines etc.
Lastly for Film history we had to watch two movies 'Duck Soup' and 'Blazing Saddles'
I really didn't like duck soup! I found it confusing, obnoxious, too silly and even at just over an hour far too long. I appreciate that it is a film from a time when people were experimenting with communicating story visually but it is just not a film for me. The only redeeming feature was the mirror scene where two characters are miming in front of each other perfectly. It wasn't the first film to do this but it is a good gag that has been repeated a lot since.
Blazing saddles however was a brilliant film! I really enjoyed the story and humor. There was a great balance between silly and self aware jokes the characters were appealing and the allegory though depicted a little bit shocking for this day and age still holds up as a great message.
OK week one may have been a little more chill than normal but it was over pretty fast! here goes week 2!
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