Final Structure

Here is my final structure I decided to go for the more exotic one rather than the sci-fi one as I feel this one has more characteristic to it compared to the others. I also feel this one had more potential to create its own world with giant plants and colourful creatures.

Back Story

  

A little hut  made of giant leaves and a wooden foundation. Its located in the middle of an exotic island full of bright colours and mysterious creatures. The wildlife being mysterious as well along with the giant mushroom characteristics on the plants behind the hut. The island is also a floating island (much like the floating islands in Avatar).

It reminds me of Shrek's hut and I feel this piece is interesting with lots of personality to it - im overal proud of the design :). That's my summer project done for now, I lost count of how many drawings I done to get my final pieces but it could not be far off 101 :). 

Structure Designs

One of these designs are going to be my final structure although I am not too sure which one to do at the moment. I carried on the silhouettes from the previous ones.

21 - A little hut in the middle of an exotic land full of bright colours and mysterious creatures. The wildlife also being mysterious with the giant mushroom characteristics on the plants behind the hut. The island is also a floating island (much like the floating islands in Avatar), it also reminds me of Shrek's hut, I feel this piece could be very interesting with lots of personality to it.

22 & 23 - Two almost alien structures one is based in a junk yard with scrap metal.The other one in an exotic land scape feeling very foreign in design. They both have an alien encryption on them (the tattoo lines on them) to symbolize there race that they are from, the tatoo at night would also glow in the dark each of different colours.  I feel both have nice characteristics and could potentially be really good designs.

24 & 25 - Both more of a sci-fi design with stragiht designs. The second on have engines on the bottom making the structure float in mid air to protect them from what ever is below. 24 also is mysteriously balancing on the very tip on the building - some say its a force/spell put onto the building.

I like all of the designs but I dont know which design to take forward onto my final outcome, If I had time I feel I would do more than one but unfortunately I do not, so would love to know your opinion. Thanks for reading it all if you did I know its long :).

Structure Silhouette's

Just like my machine's I decided to start from a silhouette base and work on top of them for idea's. So far I am liking 18, 6, 15, 16. I want to create a structure that also does not feel mechanical but from a more natural surrounding. From these I will carry on with my drawing and then follow up a final design.

Final Life Form

My final life form is a character that I could imagine living in an exotic jungle (like the croods). He is part of the bird family, but was born without any feathers apart from a few on his tail and a few on the back of his head, although this does not effect his outgoing personality.

This one derived from the life form idea sheet - #16. I was going to give him a hat at first but decided not to, but in the future I plan to do a high res sketch of this character, detailing him up to a complete design. I'm pleased with the overall character. Now onto Structures!  

Final Mech Design

Back Story

This Mech is designed to go into space for exploring and traveling the universe. It is light weight in design which gives it an advantage for high gravitational areas it is designed to withstand high pressure environments which us humans cannot be exposed to. Furthermore it has a radar system with the antenna on the top to send signals home about its location whilst scanning the environment for dangers.

Finally done my final mechanized design! Over the past 3 days I have been working on this, the front and rear view where the hardest designs to do trying to imagine what each side would look like was  a challenge for me. I feel overall pleased with the design itself. It's formed from silhouette #20 on the second design page. I used it as a base but took off the top platform. I done this becasuse I believe waht Feng Zu says: ''A design without a gun is an overall better design''. So I took on the challenge of making it look ''cool'' without putting a huge gun on it.

Now onto my life form and my structure designs!

Life Forms

Here are the start of my life forms drawings. I decided to stick to digital drawing because (despite not much experience using the tablet) I feel it presents my work better whilst gaining experience drawing in photoshop for the road ahead.

I'm overall happy with the life forms, I am liking 18,6,16 and 4 at the moment. I feel I need to do more before deciding on the final life form and then onto my structures and finalizing my designs for each category. Altogether 64 designs not many to go now!

Carrying on with my development with the project. Today has been mainly focused on the mechanized part of the project, with the walking Mech and alien spaceship.

In a later date when I have chosen my final designs, I clean these up a lot as they were only rough. This was one of the first time doing line work within Photoshop, I enjoyed it and plan on doing more. For rough ideas I am happy with the outcomes, and will focus on structures and life forms with my next lot of development. 

 

Summer Project initial stages - silhouettes

After turning the original images into silhouettes in Photoshop, I re-arranged them to make some interesting design silhouettes. I have not used this technique much before, but after some inspiration from seeing design development from silhouettes and looking at the past years work with silhouettes I feel this being a great way to produce multiple ideas quickly and instinctively.

Some of these have really interested me, being 15, 12, 7, 18, 29, 3. I was thinking of mechanical working for the majority of these, can't wait to start drawing these and designing them!

Hopefully I will show you more progress over the next couple of days. Although I am not sure whether to draw these digitally and try out the tablet or focus on traditional medium, I think I'll mix and match.

looking forward to seeing everyone's work too!