End of my Unit 3 project beginning a new.

On January the 22 I have shown my finished picture of my mirror maze. the Down side is that I forgot to resize my picture.




Phil pointed out that the reflections were also quite dark so when I got back to my room I fixed the size of my picture and edit the spectularity on the mirrors.



For Unit four we have to tell a story with an item, person and a location that was given to us. The story I have to make involves Fairy Lights, a Contortionist and an Airposrt. I got some ideas for this but maybe it's safe for me to look at the objects that were given to me in more detail.

my final picture, phil you can look at it too.

I have finished my mirror scene, but I need your guys help in which picture I should use in my crit for tomorrow. I was going for a Victorian theme.


First one



The first picture has a sense that the room is big yet closed in at the same time. But there is a light, which could point someone at the right direction.


Second one



The second picture pulls off the illusion of the endless tunnel idea and the angel I have placed the camera gave it a more daunting appearance.

So here are my two pictures. I like them both, maybe the first one a bit more because theres more things in it. The only problem I have left is, which one I should chose and what should I say at my crit for tomorrow.

for phil

for my item on my essay I thought I could look at wax models. but I remembered a scientist named Gunther von Hagens who uses real dead human bodys for his exhibition, by skinning them and dipping the dead bodys, in a pose, in wax. I was thinking, could this count as uncanny because the way the dead bodies are posed, they feel they could come to life?

FOR PHIL

Hi Phil I could really use some advice on my work or at least at push at the right direction for my Environment picture. As you know my theme is mirrors, and I am using the hall of mirrors idea to help give off the sense of loneliness and seclusion. But I talk to photoshop Phil about this he said I should give it some more character like the setting of the area, the time setting, some designs on the frames and the use of light. I also asked Goodwin for some advice and he told me to give it a things that will asked the audience some questions.
Well this is what I got from both
For the setting the mirrors will actually take place in a maze, still deciding on the time, maybe Victorian. I got some reference images to help with this idea for a mirror maze.

















My painted pictures








And on the mirrors I will add some scratches on them to show the type of people who went in, if it is a one big line than it's someone who is making a path to get out of the maze, arrows to show someone is ruining everyone's fun, graffiti scratches for vandals, big scratches for someone who doesn't like their appearance and/or one big broken mirror.
Here are some examples of scratches.



























Are the ideas that I came up when Photoshop Phil and Goodwin gave me their advice are good or am I missing something?

Environment art 16: some work I've been doing

During this week I was coming up with the lay out for my picture, I did a 3D mirror frame with a slightly open mirror door model in maya yesturday to give the mirror room an imperfectness. Because in when reflections off more than one mirrors bounce the are they're in look the same, so if I add a slightly open door mirror in that room then the area won't look the same anymore.




Today I did an above shot of the mirror room on photoshop so I get the idea of what the room look like.



Finally again today I did a digital painting of what one of the rooms look like in colour. I think this picture is a good example of the type of room I am going for, it's too bad my colours are blochy. I and going to work one the floor a bit more as well the celling.

Mirror reflection test

Today I talk to Ethan(AFlockOfPixels) with his suggestion on my reflection problem, I thought I had to set the reflections in the render settings, but I actually had to set the reflections in the maya meterial atteributes window. Any way here are some render samples.





They both look good but I still need to get the right reflections

Environment art 15: further designing on my final piece

Here is some concept ideas for my final piece, my other ideas was making a back stage to a magic show and a room where people hide behind a table with a mirror inside it.




I also did some research on mirror illusions, really spooky stuff.