Wednesday 30 January 2008
Character and scene intergration again
These images where another experiment to see if i could combine character with scene, but it also turned into a texture and rendering experiment.
The two main protagonist of Narrative 3: (the back story)
The main protagonist of the story is actually an amalgamation of two characters. The first was once a well respected computer scientist on the forefront of modern computer technology, but after he had a nervous breakdown, he turned to drugs. It wasn’t long before he discovered underground Personality Augmentation or P.A. for short. Using a proverbial cocktail of mental conditioning, advanced hypnosis and a series of neural suppressing drugs, a second personality could be constructed. In a world where it had long since become common to have multiple identities, the procedure had become a popular underground procedure because it gave people a chance to not just live out their ‘second lives’, but to become them.
But it wasn’t long before he ran out of money so he never got to complete the procedure; as a result his mental condition has become highly unstable. Now living on the street, his mind now plays host to two personalities. The first, a former shell of a once well respected computer scientists, who has grown to hate the culture and society that drove him to live on the street. The other is an incomplete version of the personality, the construction of which was never completed; as a result it has developed un-checked.
This potentially dangerous alter ego harbours utter contempt toward the government and negligent authority figures and is bitter toward the uninvolved public who give the authority its power. But unlike the first personality, who, while angry with the world, would never do anything about it. However the second personality would love nothing better to be proactive about it, in fact, he thinks of nothing else. He regards himself as the new Unabomber for the 21st century and intends to write his own manifesto, and implement it.
Both personalities are incarnations of the same identity. The two personalities represent two apparently disparate, but ultimately inseparable elements of human nature, known as hyperarousal, an acute stress response more commonly known as fight or flight. However the two personalities have begun to compete for sole occupation of his brain. However both are inexpiably intertwined, and neither can exist without the other, but the expulsion of one would ultimately lead to his destruction and visa versa.
However it is obviously his alter ego which is the main protagonist in terms of a story line. His mental condition is highly unstable and changes on a day to day basis and he has no true personality of his own. He creates himself each day to cope with the chaotic flow of modern urban life. He seems to have no control over the sensory information he's receiving from the outside world. He can only cope with the chaotic barrage of input by going with the flow. As a result, he has days when he his fairly mellow and enjoys the fruits of life, entertaining himself with drink, drugs and women, but other days he seems to become enraged by society and government and it is the latter when he is the most dangerous.
His psychosis is matched only by his own ego and he regards everything he thinks, says or does is a work of art and pure genius.
One of the main character plots will be the dilemma of the main character who simultaneously assumes two identities and often loses track of reality.
But it wasn’t long before he ran out of money so he never got to complete the procedure; as a result his mental condition has become highly unstable. Now living on the street, his mind now plays host to two personalities. The first, a former shell of a once well respected computer scientists, who has grown to hate the culture and society that drove him to live on the street. The other is an incomplete version of the personality, the construction of which was never completed; as a result it has developed un-checked.
This potentially dangerous alter ego harbours utter contempt toward the government and negligent authority figures and is bitter toward the uninvolved public who give the authority its power. But unlike the first personality, who, while angry with the world, would never do anything about it. However the second personality would love nothing better to be proactive about it, in fact, he thinks of nothing else. He regards himself as the new Unabomber for the 21st century and intends to write his own manifesto, and implement it.
Both personalities are incarnations of the same identity. The two personalities represent two apparently disparate, but ultimately inseparable elements of human nature, known as hyperarousal, an acute stress response more commonly known as fight or flight. However the two personalities have begun to compete for sole occupation of his brain. However both are inexpiably intertwined, and neither can exist without the other, but the expulsion of one would ultimately lead to his destruction and visa versa.
However it is obviously his alter ego which is the main protagonist in terms of a story line. His mental condition is highly unstable and changes on a day to day basis and he has no true personality of his own. He creates himself each day to cope with the chaotic flow of modern urban life. He seems to have no control over the sensory information he's receiving from the outside world. He can only cope with the chaotic barrage of input by going with the flow. As a result, he has days when he his fairly mellow and enjoys the fruits of life, entertaining himself with drink, drugs and women, but other days he seems to become enraged by society and government and it is the latter when he is the most dangerous.
His psychosis is matched only by his own ego and he regards everything he thinks, says or does is a work of art and pure genius.
One of the main character plots will be the dilemma of the main character who simultaneously assumes two identities and often loses track of reality.
Narrative idea 3
On the 23rd, it was suggested that i maybe develop the current narrative;
A series of short stories written from different perspectives and in different styles, portraying the day to day lives, issues and problems surrounding the world of tomorrow. All the characters are linked in some way and are referenced in the other characters stories.
I have developed this narrative further so that there are only 3 main characters, a security analysis, a homeless man and a cyber terrorist. Each character has their own individual story; however the narrative reveals that the homeless man and the terrorist are actually the same person. And are both linked to the security analysis.
A series of short stories written from different perspectives and in different styles, portraying the day to day lives, issues and problems surrounding the world of tomorrow. All the characters are linked in some way and are referenced in the other characters stories.
I have developed this narrative further so that there are only 3 main characters, a security analysis, a homeless man and a cyber terrorist. Each character has their own individual story; however the narrative reveals that the homeless man and the terrorist are actually the same person. And are both linked to the security analysis.
Tuesday 29 January 2008
Newspapers: The Future
I found a good artical about the future of newspapers with the introduction of new technologies and shrinking circulation numbers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/10/11/DI2005101101387.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/10/11/DI2005101101387.html
Dystopia in England
I want my narrative to have a mix of the old and the new, the almost utopian and the dystopian mixed in together. To that end i have come accross a BBC website called My Science Fiction Life, which is part of the Science Fiction Britannia season on BBC Four, which explored how the genre has changed individual lives. Im trying to find out when next it will be broadcast or a way i can watch it, but in the mean time the site does contain a number of video interviews which im going to watch, starting with the section under themes entitled Dystopias.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mysciencefictionlife/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mysciencefictionlife/index.shtml
Monday 28 January 2008
Mood Board
Ive been thinking about the style of my work, both in the narrative and the illustrative style. The top image is visual style and the bottom is illustrative style.
Theodore Kaczynski
My research over cyber terrorism has lead me to develope one of the characters in my narrative as a kind of cyber terrorist. So i began to look at cyber terrorism and i came across Theodore Kaczynski. The info about him below is from wikipedia:
Dr. Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), known as the Unabomber, is an American terrorist who carried out a campaign of bombings and mail bombings that killed 3 and wounded 23. He sent bombs to several universities, airlines, and other targets from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s.[1] Kaczynski sent a letter on April 24, 1995 to The New York Times, promising "to desist from terrorism" if the Times or a similarly respected news journal would publish his manifesto. In his Industrial Society and Its Future (commonly called the "Unabomber Manifesto," described below) he argued that his actions were a necessary (although extreme) tactic by which to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technology and large-scale organization.[2]
The Unabomber was the target of one of the most expensive investigations in the FBI's history.[3] Kaczynski's moniker as the Unabomber was derived from his FBI codename. Before his real identity was known, the FBI used the handle "UNABOM" ("UNiversity and Airline BOMber") to refer to his case, which resulted in variants such as Unabomer, Unibomber, and Unabomber when the media started using the name. He was not caught as a result of this investigation, however. His brother recognized the manifesto and turned him in. To avoid the death penalty, Kaczynski entered into a plea agreement, under which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
A Farewell to Arms
I recently came across an internet artical on the wired.com web site entitled A Farewell to Arms, writen by John Carlin.
The document looks at the potential damage cyber terrorism could cause. It has been quite an inspirational and interesting read in terms of narrative development and story ideas. Ive picked out some of the interesting qoutes and parts of the documents.
Url: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.05/netizen.html
information technology is undermining most of the world's accumulated knowledge about armed conflict - since Sun Tzu, anyway.
The object is to vanquish, conquer, destroy - as deviously and pervasively as possible.
That's one of the factors that makes I-war discussions so fraught: Like the technology that makes it possible, the landscape is vast, hard to visualize, and infinitely flexible. I-war can be the kind of neat, conceptually contained electronic Pearl Harbor scenario that Washington strategists like - collapsing power grids, a stock market software bomb (Tom Clancy's been there already), an electromagnetic pulse that takes the phone system out. Or it could be something completely different: An unreachable, maybe even unknown, foe. Grinding you down. Messing with your collective mind. Driving you slowly, gently nuts. Turning around your high-powered, fully wired expeditionary force in Somalia with a single, 30-second videoclip of one of your boys being dragged behind a jeep. Weaponry by CNN.
Nobody wants to get near it, because it's being presented in such humongous terms." And because jumping in requires wrestling with some of the most contentious issues around, from civil liberties and cryptography to the size of the Pentagon budget - not to mention heavy doses of what still remains, for most of area code 202, mind-bendingly impenetrable technology.
Looking at I-war through the conventional military prism is scarcely more inspiring. No weapons to stockpile. No US$50 billion panacea programs. No Ho Chi Minh Trails to bomb. No missiles to monitor. No rear bases - possibly no immediately definable enemy at all. The I-war threat is, by definition, so overwhelmingly unstructured that any attempt at a top heavy response could actually be worse than doing nothing. Nor will expensive new toys help: as the NSA's and the FBI's crypto warriors are already finding out, most of the technology involved is simply software - easy to duplicate, hard to restrict, and often frustratingly dual-use, civilian or military. It doesn't take a nice, fat sitting duck of a factory to manufacture software bombs; any PC anywhere will do.
...this is cutting-edge stuff, grounded in the latest theories of ecological computing - digital versions of genetic variation and immune response. "There are naturally occurring models of survivable systems provided by biological organisms, populations, and societies," declares Darpa's request for proposals. "This research program uses these examples for metaphors and guidance about how to design survivable information systems.
Steele argues for what he calls "SmartNation," a sort of electronic Neighborhood Watch in which "each individual node - each individual citizen - is educated, responsible, alert, and able to join in a networked security chain."
Pentagon adviser John Arquilla has a name for low tech responses to high tech warfare: netwar. And he believes that future conflicts will be dominated not by superpowers and nation-states but by small, distributed groups - ranging from criminal gangs to rebels like those in Chechnya and Chiapas - who can exploit information technology.
What's so new about that?
It's all-channel interconnectivity that distinguishes the true modern network - each node can connect quite directly with any other. What's fascinating is that smugglers, pirates, other forms of criminals, revolutionaries, and terrorists have always organized along networked lines. Now they are marrying up with the information revolution, and it's giving them vast new capabilities.
We're also going to see more netwar because one can wage this kind of conflict without large field armies - and indeed without sophisticated technologies. In the wake of the Gulf War, it doesn't make a great deal of sense to challenge the United States directly or conventionally. Only a few armies - quite advanced ones - will engage in the high tech wars of the future. Instead, there will be a profusion of challenges to American interests. And it's this kind of conflict for which we are not prepared.
What stands in the way of serious change?
Militaries that change are usually militaries that have been defeated. And so this is a very difficult time for the United States. We have a formula that has worked. We won the Cold War. We won the Gulf War. Doing things this way is costly - a quarter of a trillion dollars spent on defense each year. Do we want to take a chance on a new way of fighting solely because it may mean we'll be able to do it less expensively? I would say that we must, because we have economic constraints to which we must respond. But we also have to decentralize our military for the same reasons that businesses are decentralizing.
How will this affect the global power structure?
There's been a long debate about whether information technologies tend toward good or evil. My greatest fear is the rising capabilities of states and nonstate actors who would use information technology to spread traditional forms of influence and power. A kind of information-supported imperialism may emerge. And a form of criminal mercantilism may be enabled, practiced by various pirate organizations around the world.
That doesn't sound particularly cheerful.
The darkest possibility is that states, realizing the power of networks, will align themselves with transnational criminal organizations, which will serve as their proxies as they wage an unending low-intensity netwar.
But there's another hypothesis: Because free flows of information vastly increase the costs of repression, authoritarian and totalitarian states will find themselves having greater and greater difficulty maintaining control. My greatest hope is that the information revolution raises the possibility of globally disseminating a set of common values and agreements about the nature of human rights. Interconnectivity - and the social, political, and sometimes military capabilities that come with this interconnectedness - can help to break the chains of those around the world who remain under authoritarian control. It is possible that new information technologies portend the rise of a global civil society that will be self-governing and more peaceful.
The document looks at the potential damage cyber terrorism could cause. It has been quite an inspirational and interesting read in terms of narrative development and story ideas. Ive picked out some of the interesting qoutes and parts of the documents.
Url: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.05/netizen.html
information technology is undermining most of the world's accumulated knowledge about armed conflict - since Sun Tzu, anyway.
"After the Gulf War, when everyone was looking forward to eternal peace, a new military revolution emerged. This revolution is essentially a transformation from the mechanized warfare of the industrial age to the information warfare of the information age. Information warfare is a war of decisions and control, a war of knowledge, and a war of intellect. The aim of information warfare will be gradually changed from 'preserving oneself and wiping out the enemy' to 'preserving oneself and controlling the opponent.' Information warfare includes electronic warfare, tactical deception, strategic deterrence, propaganda warfare, psychological warfare, network warfare, and structural sabotage.- From Chinese army newspaper, Jiefangjun Bao
Under today's technological conditions," the summary continues, "the 'all conquering stratagems' of Sun Tzu more than two millennia ago - 'vanquishing the enemy without fighting' and subduing the enemy by 'soft strike' or 'soft destruction' - could finally be truly realized."
The object is to vanquish, conquer, destroy - as deviously and pervasively as possible.
That's one of the factors that makes I-war discussions so fraught: Like the technology that makes it possible, the landscape is vast, hard to visualize, and infinitely flexible. I-war can be the kind of neat, conceptually contained electronic Pearl Harbor scenario that Washington strategists like - collapsing power grids, a stock market software bomb (Tom Clancy's been there already), an electromagnetic pulse that takes the phone system out. Or it could be something completely different: An unreachable, maybe even unknown, foe. Grinding you down. Messing with your collective mind. Driving you slowly, gently nuts. Turning around your high-powered, fully wired expeditionary force in Somalia with a single, 30-second videoclip of one of your boys being dragged behind a jeep. Weaponry by CNN.
Nobody wants to get near it, because it's being presented in such humongous terms." And because jumping in requires wrestling with some of the most contentious issues around, from civil liberties and cryptography to the size of the Pentagon budget - not to mention heavy doses of what still remains, for most of area code 202, mind-bendingly impenetrable technology.
Looking at I-war through the conventional military prism is scarcely more inspiring. No weapons to stockpile. No US$50 billion panacea programs. No Ho Chi Minh Trails to bomb. No missiles to monitor. No rear bases - possibly no immediately definable enemy at all. The I-war threat is, by definition, so overwhelmingly unstructured that any attempt at a top heavy response could actually be worse than doing nothing. Nor will expensive new toys help: as the NSA's and the FBI's crypto warriors are already finding out, most of the technology involved is simply software - easy to duplicate, hard to restrict, and often frustratingly dual-use, civilian or military. It doesn't take a nice, fat sitting duck of a factory to manufacture software bombs; any PC anywhere will do.
"We've created a technology over a period of 20 or 30 years. It's going to take 10, 20 years to create an alternative technology that allows us a more sophisticated set of defenses."
...this is cutting-edge stuff, grounded in the latest theories of ecological computing - digital versions of genetic variation and immune response. "There are naturally occurring models of survivable systems provided by biological organisms, populations, and societies," declares Darpa's request for proposals. "This research program uses these examples for metaphors and guidance about how to design survivable information systems.
Steele argues for what he calls "SmartNation," a sort of electronic Neighborhood Watch in which "each individual node - each individual citizen - is educated, responsible, alert, and able to join in a networked security chain."
Pentagon adviser John Arquilla has a name for low tech responses to high tech warfare: netwar. And he believes that future conflicts will be dominated not by superpowers and nation-states but by small, distributed groups - ranging from criminal gangs to rebels like those in Chechnya and Chiapas - who can exploit information technology.
What's so new about that?
It's all-channel interconnectivity that distinguishes the true modern network - each node can connect quite directly with any other. What's fascinating is that smugglers, pirates, other forms of criminals, revolutionaries, and terrorists have always organized along networked lines. Now they are marrying up with the information revolution, and it's giving them vast new capabilities.
We're also going to see more netwar because one can wage this kind of conflict without large field armies - and indeed without sophisticated technologies. In the wake of the Gulf War, it doesn't make a great deal of sense to challenge the United States directly or conventionally. Only a few armies - quite advanced ones - will engage in the high tech wars of the future. Instead, there will be a profusion of challenges to American interests. And it's this kind of conflict for which we are not prepared.
What stands in the way of serious change?
Militaries that change are usually militaries that have been defeated. And so this is a very difficult time for the United States. We have a formula that has worked. We won the Cold War. We won the Gulf War. Doing things this way is costly - a quarter of a trillion dollars spent on defense each year. Do we want to take a chance on a new way of fighting solely because it may mean we'll be able to do it less expensively? I would say that we must, because we have economic constraints to which we must respond. But we also have to decentralize our military for the same reasons that businesses are decentralizing.
How will this affect the global power structure?
There's been a long debate about whether information technologies tend toward good or evil. My greatest fear is the rising capabilities of states and nonstate actors who would use information technology to spread traditional forms of influence and power. A kind of information-supported imperialism may emerge. And a form of criminal mercantilism may be enabled, practiced by various pirate organizations around the world.
That doesn't sound particularly cheerful.
The darkest possibility is that states, realizing the power of networks, will align themselves with transnational criminal organizations, which will serve as their proxies as they wage an unending low-intensity netwar.
But there's another hypothesis: Because free flows of information vastly increase the costs of repression, authoritarian and totalitarian states will find themselves having greater and greater difficulty maintaining control. My greatest hope is that the information revolution raises the possibility of globally disseminating a set of common values and agreements about the nature of human rights. Interconnectivity - and the social, political, and sometimes military capabilities that come with this interconnectedness - can help to break the chains of those around the world who remain under authoritarian control. It is possible that new information technologies portend the rise of a global civil society that will be self-governing and more peaceful.
Friday 25 January 2008
Blog of note - http://laurenhyndman.blog.co.uk/
I thought I would mention an interesting blog to look at. Lauren is a friend of mine doing a the final year of her degree in Design at Leeds Met.
http://laurenhyndman.blog.co.uk/
http://laurenhyndman.blog.co.uk/
Wednesday 23 January 2008
Sunday 20 January 2008
Illustration development in Cinema 4D
My previous virtual models where build and rendered in FORM.Z. However it was suggested to me that i could get better quality and more options for rendering using Cinema 4D. To this end, i have been experimenting with that to date.
Narrative development
During my Wednesday tutorial on the 9th of January, I got the idea of rather than one big story, i perhaps explore looking at maybe a series of short story’s, told from the point of view of everyday residents of a city set in the near future. To this end i have been looking at developing the following:
A series of short stories written from different perspectives and in different styles, portraying the day to day lives, issues and problems surrounding the world of tomorrow. All the characters are linked in some way and are referenced in the other characters stories. At present i think im going to have all the storys based in the city of London around the year 2034 / 2040
• A diary / journal style entry made by a homeless person living on the streets of London.
The diary entry will talk about the main characters contempt at society and general dislike of technology. The he has chosen to live his life “below the radar”. As a result he has had to abandon almost all his materials positions and technology. The narrative comments on the different social quirks and situations he observes while on the street and also explores the different parts of the city, from the clean and technology filled rich areas to the underdeveloped poorer areas and the social classes that occupy them.
• A conversation between a psychotherapist and her patient as they explore the patient’s medical condition of “digital / virtual Schizophrenia.”
The main characters form of schizophrenia has been brought about by an unhealthy obsession with his virtual life. Choosing to spend more time in the virtual world rather than the real one. Even choosing to have virtual job rather than a physical one. The convocation tells us how the problem has become a common one and explores the lengths that some people go to not only to stay online, and how they even favour their virtual personas over their physical ones.
• A short story told from the point of view of security analyst who has to track a terrorist through the city and update authorities of his movements as they move in to catch him.
A normal day at work is thrown into chaos for the main character when some government agents come into the building and ask him to track a suspected terrorist. The narrative explores how technology could be used to track someone and how even with the latest technology, it can still prove difficult and a challenge.
• Another short story, this time told from the point of a view of the said terrorist and how he tries to avoid capture.
This narrative explores the opposite from the previous; looking at the problems and difficulties someone would encounter if they were on the run and didn’t want to be caught.
• A report from a fictional journalist reports upon the previous day’s terrorist threat and the damage caused.
This journalistic approach talks about who the terrorist was, and his actions. Moreover, it will also fill in the gaps, showing how all the characters in the other short stories are linked.
A series of short stories written from different perspectives and in different styles, portraying the day to day lives, issues and problems surrounding the world of tomorrow. All the characters are linked in some way and are referenced in the other characters stories. At present i think im going to have all the storys based in the city of London around the year 2034 / 2040
• A diary / journal style entry made by a homeless person living on the streets of London.
The diary entry will talk about the main characters contempt at society and general dislike of technology. The he has chosen to live his life “below the radar”. As a result he has had to abandon almost all his materials positions and technology. The narrative comments on the different social quirks and situations he observes while on the street and also explores the different parts of the city, from the clean and technology filled rich areas to the underdeveloped poorer areas and the social classes that occupy them.
• A conversation between a psychotherapist and her patient as they explore the patient’s medical condition of “digital / virtual Schizophrenia.”
The main characters form of schizophrenia has been brought about by an unhealthy obsession with his virtual life. Choosing to spend more time in the virtual world rather than the real one. Even choosing to have virtual job rather than a physical one. The convocation tells us how the problem has become a common one and explores the lengths that some people go to not only to stay online, and how they even favour their virtual personas over their physical ones.
• A short story told from the point of view of security analyst who has to track a terrorist through the city and update authorities of his movements as they move in to catch him.
A normal day at work is thrown into chaos for the main character when some government agents come into the building and ask him to track a suspected terrorist. The narrative explores how technology could be used to track someone and how even with the latest technology, it can still prove difficult and a challenge.
• Another short story, this time told from the point of a view of the said terrorist and how he tries to avoid capture.
This narrative explores the opposite from the previous; looking at the problems and difficulties someone would encounter if they were on the run and didn’t want to be caught.
• A report from a fictional journalist reports upon the previous day’s terrorist threat and the damage caused.
This journalistic approach talks about who the terrorist was, and his actions. Moreover, it will also fill in the gaps, showing how all the characters in the other short stories are linked.
Term 2 – Brief
This is a rough copy of my intended brief for term 2. I have broken it down into 4 simple questions; What, why, who and when.
What – to experiment with and develop a unique illustrative style to accompany the simultaneous development of a narrative that will reflect research and conclusions established in stage one. The final outcome of both these tasks will be to consolidate both illustration and narrative together, taking the form of a graphic novel.
Why - I want to portray a realistic and accurate vision of the future that has been informed by extensive research and contextualisation rather than a less informed “space opera” that often employ the use of over the top characterisation and often use exotic futuristic settings that are filled with only remotely plausible technologies.
Who – Images and stories about the future have always been a topic of interest for the modern western world. They can provide a healthy criticism of a society and its technologies but also provide a base for innovation and development of new technologies and social trends. Many of today’s new and developing technologies are still young in terms of developing their own conventions within a culture and society. My aim is to show both the public and technology developers how some of the new and virgin technologies today will work and fit into our lives in the near future.
When – I intend to use term 2 primarily as an explorative term. It will be split between narrative development and writing firstly. At the same time I’ll be exploring and experimenting with different illustrative techniques. By the end of the term I plan to have a first draft of the narrative complete and grammatically checked. I also intend to have an illustrative style outlined that I am most comfortable with and think will be the most appropriate to the narrative. With these things done it will leave me free to combine both illustration and narrative together and experiment with different ways of doing this.
What – to experiment with and develop a unique illustrative style to accompany the simultaneous development of a narrative that will reflect research and conclusions established in stage one. The final outcome of both these tasks will be to consolidate both illustration and narrative together, taking the form of a graphic novel.
Why - I want to portray a realistic and accurate vision of the future that has been informed by extensive research and contextualisation rather than a less informed “space opera” that often employ the use of over the top characterisation and often use exotic futuristic settings that are filled with only remotely plausible technologies.
Who – Images and stories about the future have always been a topic of interest for the modern western world. They can provide a healthy criticism of a society and its technologies but also provide a base for innovation and development of new technologies and social trends. Many of today’s new and developing technologies are still young in terms of developing their own conventions within a culture and society. My aim is to show both the public and technology developers how some of the new and virgin technologies today will work and fit into our lives in the near future.
When – I intend to use term 2 primarily as an explorative term. It will be split between narrative development and writing firstly. At the same time I’ll be exploring and experimenting with different illustrative techniques. By the end of the term I plan to have a first draft of the narrative complete and grammatically checked. I also intend to have an illustrative style outlined that I am most comfortable with and think will be the most appropriate to the narrative. With these things done it will leave me free to combine both illustration and narrative together and experiment with different ways of doing this.
Tuesday 15 January 2008
Illustrative concepts
I’ve started to experiment with visualising scenes for my nave decided to start with visualising a city. The examples below are just some basic experimental visualisations. I decided to start with visualising a totally virtual 3D city scene. So far I believe i can visualise the basic architecture with little difficulties. I’ve also conducted some experimentation to see how i could visualise a scene in 3D but using post process techniques give the scenes a hand drawn look.
I’ve also thought that i could build the scenes in the computer, but then print them out and use them as a reference to hand draw a scene.
What i now want to do now is to bulk out the scenes a bit more, adding things like different materials for buildings, wear and tear, cars, people, etc, thus giving the scenes a more realistic look.
I’ve also thought that i could build the scenes in the computer, but then print them out and use them as a reference to hand draw a scene.
What i now want to do now is to bulk out the scenes a bit more, adding things like different materials for buildings, wear and tear, cars, people, etc, thus giving the scenes a more realistic look.
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