Oliver Castle - BA(Hons) Computer Animation Arts

Here's some more thumbnails I did on the train for Zenobia. I'm mostly exploring ideas for the low angle shot, thinking about having the actual building part of the city be these massive clusters of bamboo buildings, all arranged like cones or maybe bamboo shoots. Obviously I still have to get the connecting walkways, bridges and stairs in there. There's also an attempt at thinking about the interior shot on the bottom left. It's supposed to be one of the tunnels that connects the many 'growth chambers', the water filled ex-mine pits that grow the bamboo. I like it quite a bit actually, since the light would be filtering through the bamboo poles and leaves down into the tunnel but because of the angle most of the tunnel would be rather dark. It might contrast well with the much brighter above ground shots.

Today was 6 hours of digital drawing. We had a little bit of infomation on composition, and how to use leading lines to draw the viewer in, so I sketched out a redo of one of my thumbnails. Once we were done with that I spent the rest of the day doing thumbnails/sketches for the final 3 shots. I'm trying to focus on the idea of where the bamboo comes from, how it's grown, farmed, etc.  So far I'm working under the idea that the people reuse the old zinc mines and grow the bamboo in the pooled water at the bottom. Like how many quarries are turned into lakes once they're used up.

Oops, it's been a while since I've actually posted anything. In my defence I was ill, but that's not really an excuse. At any rate, here are another load of thumbnails I've finished, along with more of my city notes. Leonia Moriana Phyllis Page 1 Sophronia Tamara Thekla Zenobia

Just a sample of my city notes. This one is for Thekla, I'll upload more as I make them. Today we were given a briefing on how the Context project will go, including infomation on how it relates to our Film Reviews. Last year I really wasn't feeling it but I'm really looking forward to the Context project this time, I think the group oriented structure and the way it leans heavily into building our research skills will help me a lot. My gang's research focus is on Film Noir, or at least The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in relation to Film Noir. I picked up a few books out of the library to read tonight and tomorrow (Film Noir by William Luhr and Film Noir by Alain Silver and James Ursini.) in preparation for Thursday. Anyway, here's the thumbnails I've got so far. It's a mix of a few cities, these were the ones I did before I started making more detailed notes (see right) so they're only based of surface level ideas. I'll upload more as I fi...