sculpture

Fiona; she gave me a ride home every week after class. She is wonderful! This was such a great class! Def taking it again next semester! :)

those pretty girls

Christmas models and a potluck, with a dog in there somewhere. Twas fun!

wrapping up the term

Winding down before I head home for the festive season. Interestingly, my friend and I were talking about how the "entertainment" method that is being taught for concept is actually not what satisfies the needs of the film and movie industry. I've been hearing that a lot by art direct0rs and pr0duction designers but the c0ncept people just don't seem to get it. My friend has worked in movies and is in the union as part of the art/set dec department, and has been steadily transitioning to art direct0r/ pr0duction designer, which means he pretty much gets to decide in the future what requirements the c0ncept people who work for him need to satisfy. He took a 'Sketc!ng for Env!ronment" class at a school where all these aspiring c0ncept people were training and he said "it's all shapes" that they were being taught, and said that "they're learning to design as though it were animation!" incredulously. He blatantly said "that is NOT how we work at all. It just can't work. We rely on the practicality of the set being built and the size of our space, materials we are working with, etc". It's a very very interesting divide and I wish that there was more talk back between departments because um, if you're an aspiring whatever and you're going to work for a lot of X kinds of people, shouldn't you WANT to know what X wants or looks for? It makes sense for me. The art d!rectors I've met care about DESIGN and FORM. All the texture and cool lighting in the world doesn't matter to them, especially if they can't see the form or the design. It has to make sense to them and also just be a good design that is practical. So I got into my classes for next semester, and just have to wrap up on my sculpt!ng class. I'll definitely be continuing that, along with two @rchitectural classes where I can build and design actual models and meeting with a theme park @rt director in the new year, as well continuing with pa!nting and a 3D digital printing class, and my CAD programme learning. Oh, these are some last drawings of hands we did on Saturday, and then a portrait with a hand. And then some Lego pieces people in class modelled (mine is the big semi circlish one that looks like a hat). My prof did the big arch one, as you can tell, as well as that triangular looking one. They're all done to scale.

WIP of my WIP

mad scientist WIP

So we had to do this assignment with a mad scientist blah blah blah show his room cluttered and the cliche was him surrounded by random junk like CRT tvs and all of that. That's kind of true if you're genius, actually; engineers who are very creative do tend to be messy). However, I wanted to have a different spin on it (even though, again, my teacher prob won't like it because he's more into animation). I was thinking of a man who was a merchant watchmaker when those were mechanical (I have a thing for really well made watches and horology in general from Sw!tzerland and Germ@ny because it satisfies the science part of my brain and the art part; they tend to be aesthetically beautiful but also really intricate and well made). The rest of the world has moved on and so he has overtaken an old foundry and transformed it into his idea of utopia. I included some of my process, wanting to keep it classical in terms of the arch!tecture, but also integrating different types of watchmaking into it; his general rest area is a clock, the furniture's legs are wristbands that sit as tripods; in one area you have to wait until the clock is at 6pm or you can't physically pass through it, etc. It's a WIP. I was thinking about this whole idea of time passing (especially as I've been into investing lately). I've always been intrigued by the concept of the world moving on and how time leaves us only with memories, and what that means to some people and the life they have built. My friend and I visited an old Bas!lica this past weekend. The priest who once was there had turned 300 the weekend before. My friend (that I went with to the Basilica) also has a past (I found out) that she sometimes refers to, but doesn't talk about much. It's clear that it was a passion of hers, and I stumbled upon some articles that even stated that she was a pioneer in that field, back in the 90s. It seems like it was a big deal at the time, with a lot of press and media. There were quiet moments during our trip on the way home and we had a lot of fun, but I wonder sometimes how our minds process these great times, knowing that they are behind us, because they replay in our memory over and over till the day we die. I haven't experienced a peak like that in my life, and I believe that it comes to everyone, but I wonder after that moment, what is on the other side. Growing older in age and with a bit of heartbreak, knowing that those times, that era is gone? M@rtha Graham spoke about this also, when she said it was painful to see younger dancers on stage doing a dance that she had performed many years ago. Anyways, enough heartbreak...