36 Textures from Light to Dark

The transition is displayed through 6 different patterns:

File Front Upload

Like we were told to do in the lecture, here's a link to my Draft Map in UT4

Development in UT

The drawing i have chosen is a conglomerate of Jane Goodall and Florence Nightengale:

Unreal Tournament Screenshots:

'Electroliquid aggregation' quote:

No self-respecting man, whether hunter, doctor or policeman, would shoot a mother with a baby. But still it happens, along with the occasional nurse. The devoted and obedient are just easy targets.

Drawings in my Moleskin

First, are my original 18 axonometrics, except that they were too complex and actually parallel projections:

So i decided to redraw them all, except simplified into 3 rectangular prisms, and from the axometric view: Finally the 9 parallel projections viewed from 2 different angles, formulated from combining 2 of the above:

Unreal Tournament: 2 axonometrics

Original drawings:

3D development in the template Russell made for Unreal Tournament:

Experiment 2: Quotes

Jane Goodall:
"No self-respecting hunter would shoot a mother with a baby, but this bush-meat trade is no longer made up of self-respecting people."

Rauber, P 2006, 'People Say That Violence and War Are Inevitable. I Say Rubbish', Sierra Magazine, May-June 2006, accessed 14 April 2008, <http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200605/interview.asp>

Florence Nightingale:
"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this -- 'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman." (1859)

Lewis J. J 2003, Florence Nightingale Quotes, About Women's History, accessed 14 April 2008, <http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/a/qu_nightingale.htm>

Stephen Hawkins:
"…going through a black hole, is unlikely to prove a popular and reliable method of space travel. First of all, you would have to get there by travelling in imaginary time, and not care that your history in real time came to a sticky end. Second, you couldn't really choose your destination. It would be a bit like travelling on some airlines I could name, but won't, because I would be sued."

Hawkins, S 1993, Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays, Bantam, New York

Storyboards & Animation

First i tried to be creative and draw a film strip border. I soon gave up on it haha.

Note: my final animations are quite different from these original plans, as i underestimated the minimal frames 10sec required and so i had to edit a lot out...

The finalised 3 animations are now on youtube:

Above Ground Studio

Rustic Stairs

Wait Stairs


Online Videos by Veoh.com


(i uploaded it onto veoh instead because youtube kept declaring my file an invalid type??? Even though it was the same as my other animations?)

FINAL NOTE TO BRAD: Initially i did delete the Gallery space from my SketchUp Model but after consulting my friends - who were told by their tutors to make anything, as long as a Gallery space exists in their work - i decided to keep my gallery. I believe it's safer to submit more, than nothing...

Youtube Videos

I misunderstood and thought that we were to make a SketchUp animation to upload onto youtube...
So here it is:









Meanwhile a video which relates to my space is:






To represent the word 'Rustic', i'm creating a structure characteristic of deteriorating pipes. The space is supposed to give the sense of a 'vertical maze' (terminology courtesy of Alicetj who commented on my youtube :D) - an almost never-ending pathway, confining and dark. This challenging journey is experienced by the 'Extreme Bumming Crew' in their video, as they explore an underground tunnel.

Also i have acted on Brad's advice and removed the gallery space, 'spider balls' and tried to integrate the above ground studio spaces more with the pipe network.

Finalised SketchUp Model

The top building is 'Rustic', a word used to describe Ricky Swallow's sculpture, The Exact Dimensions of Staying Behind.

The botton building is 'Wait', a word used to describe Sidney Nolan's painting, Kelly.

Textures include 'brittle', 'metallic', 'rusty', 'sturdy' and 'clean'.

Original Section Drawing:

Developed SketchUp Model:

NOTE: several changes were made, thanks to advice from Brad. These include the removal of the round orb room in 'Wait', the removal of hemispheres in the stairs linking 'Wait' to the gallery and instead inclusion of traffic lights, addition of more practical studio space to 'Rustic'

Materials: concrete, steel, glass, marble

The left building has purposely been left open to show the interior. Otherwise its exterior would appear like the right building.

Ricky Swallow, 'The Exact Dimensions of Staying Behind'

Swallow’s work, although contemporary in subject matter, upholds the tradition of sculpture through classical carving techniques. Working directly with his hands, he uses a chisel and hammer to render his subjects out of blocks of wood. Then scraping and sanding techniques are implemented to obtain smooth surfaces, resulting in a long and arduous process. Here his material is lime wood, and laminated so as to enhance its durability through time and climate conditions. Swallow’s skilled craftsmanship is evident through the intricate details of his sculpture; the seated figure clutches both an ornate staff and carving blade, the former symbolizing support in seeking a path, while the latter a tool of both creation and destruction. This contradiction introduces Swallow’s main concept of mortality, and the need to balance life with death and dying.

Sidney Nolan, 'Kelly'

Nolan’s status as a fast and prolific painter, is supported by this work as the thick visible brushstrokes suggest vigorous spontaneity and the use of a large brush. He is known to work in his studio, painting from memory rather than preliminary sketches. Rather than upholding the conventional painting medium of oil paint or acrylic on canvas, Nolan favours the enamel house paint Ripolin on compositional boards. As Ripolin is fast drying and very fluid, it demanded immediate execution and painting on flat surfaces – thus Nolan would also have challenged the artistic convention of painting on easels. It is said that Nolan’s success is more attributed to his edgy, bold shapes and historical, cultural charm, than his painting ability, as his works don’t attempt to build form or investigate space.

36 Textures

i'm not sure if i'm supposed to scan them up???

But since this blog is supposed to document my work...