More Things to Come...;D

So I made 2 examples of the elder's palace. Let me know if you like it or not. Also I put the airship designs ans examples of tree/cliff houses. :D More to come later

Moment of Glory!

The next few days prove if we can make it of if we'll break. Stay motivated, keep in touch, be available for eachother! Good meet today People.

here is a blockout of one of the big houses of Ronald's concept

House Placement/More Tree Types

Sorry I didn't get as much as I wanted to get done today...Errands took longer than expected. But here is what I did today...I'll try to do more before we meet. :D

Silhouettes...More to come :D

Aight, so here are some of the things I've gotten done so far, let me know if I'm heading in the right direction. I will try to crank some more out tomorrow before we meet up sat. :D

Camera angle blockout

here is a top down idea for the terrain

pre-new idea stuff

some work from before the new canyon idea. possibly salvageable.

ok , so here is the terrain blockout I did , is already in the dropbox, I,m still concern about how the nodes will be set , if node 2 is visible from node 1 that means that will be doing 2 nodes for this quarter.

Where the hell is Morocco anyways?

Well I had no idea an hour ago but I know now! Looking at the map I did some searches on the neighboring territories (Purtugul Structures, Algerian Structures etc) I found a lot more to go on visually when concepting on blocking stuff out. Have a look

NEW CONCEPT!

Kevin came up with a really fantastic concept. At this point we're running with this as our spring board idea. Please come to class with as few sketches and blockouts/Silhouettes of what you think parts of this should look like, or props that would fit in here!

Setting: Think grand canyon, huge craggy cliffs with gnarled trees growing from the crevices almost horizontally. Water lines on the cliffs that show that the raging river thousands of feet below used to run a lot higher.

Story: Ages ago a caravan of merchant ships loaded with goods to trade in this foreign land ran aground in the rapids. Survivors began to live in the only shelter they had available to them, the wreckage of their ships (very Moroccan look to them). These ships were loaded with goods for trade so they were able to get by on salvaged trade goods and fish from the river.

Since then ages have passed and the river has lowered and cut deeper into the canyon leaving the survivors suspended thousands of feet up the cliff face on the remains of their ships now deeply wedged into the walls on both sides of the canyon. Rope bridges made from the ropes that used to support the ship sails connect the different ship remains and run through the trees that have sprouted out of the crevices in the cliff wall. Because of the limited space the dwellers have created structures to live in within the trees. These structures are completely crafted from the pieces of the caravan ships which were very ornamental, giving the tree city a very Moroccan feel to it. Ladders and pulley systems lead down to the river that the dwellers still depend on for fish and fresh water.

The city has began to thrive as a trading hub and has developed trade relations with the outside world. With most of the current dwellers being born in the cliff city they have never known life in the outside world and see no reason to relocate to a more traditional locale.

Pluses with this scenario:

- The city being built from pieces of the ship will be very Moroccan, have interesting structures, and also be very modular

-Will make great use of vertical space with an interesting color pallets(earthy and green with the bright patterns of Moroccan culture

-Creates that element of "why are these ships stuck in the cliff-side thousands of miles above the river, I want to know more"

-Technically easier to pull off than our previous concept while still being original

-Cliffs and trees casting shadows will create a very appealing visual piece

-Looking at Moroccan structures that have a very middle eastern feel, the whole Arab trader image would fit well with the scene meshing the story with the art style

Major changes ahead

I just ran the concepts by Asa today and we are going to have to scrap a lot of the ideas we had. That includes the whole big tree idea and anything on the coast. If you have time to work on anything tonight just try to block out something Morrocon and generic enough to fit in to what ever we decide on tommorow in class. Small props ftw

Diego has been unable to join the blog so I'm posting this image of the blockouts he did for painting , the objs are on the dropbox.

Tree Roots

So here are some tree root designs...I'll try to do more later :D LET'S GO TEAM!!! HOLLA!!! ;D

Roots

Alright, so for this first concept presentation, we need to be focusing on node one, which is the Cove under the roots. The roots will be creating most of the structure and environment, with some rock as well (Perhaps the roots are grown on the rock, or wrapped around it).Also, let's see ideas, (silhouettes with lines in them) showing how the roots may twist and separate/join in order to create little windows and doors. I included some new images to help with ideas in the touchstone folder and here are interesting root formations as well.Just drop your silhouettes in the dropbox when you can. Thanks!

here are some ideas for the lighthouse, the obj is in the dropbox.

here is an idea of the terrain for the docks.
the obj is in the dropbox .

DropBox

As I go through the work, I will be placing the work that I feel is the strongest in the "Reviewed Work, Strong examples" folder. That should help us to get a more unified vision for the project, style, etc.

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