What If? Metropolis #2 : "Paint" textures/UVs

Although Hofmann's work contains simple shapes with basic colours, some of his work contains shapes that have a very quick brush stroke of the paint. It is because of this you can see how the colours haven't fully mixed with each other and so you can see several colours in one shape. Because of this, I made some textures using real acrylic paint. I made a lot of different colours that work with the city, but still look like the shapes in his work.

What If? Metropolis #2: Extruding Hofmann's work in Maya

These are some of the images that I chose and took into Maya, so that I can extrude some of the shapes from Hofmann's work. It gave some very interesting results, some of which look like a city. They are quite compact in some cases, and so they work well with his style. I have taken what I have learned from making these into making the final city.

What If? Metropolis #2: Silhouette thumbnails 1-26

Below are the silhouette thumbnails that I did very early on. At the time of making these I was unsure about how the city would look and be made etc. so I wanted to see what shapes I could get from Hofmann's work. I did get some very interesting results, some of which made it easier when I was extruding images in Maya, which I will upload a little later.

Fantastic Voyage: Final Animation + Art Of

Stamp of Nature from Daniel Reason on Vimeo.

This is the final submission post for the Fantastic Voyage project. I have had many problems along the way so it too longer than I thought. It looks very rushed and fast in places, so that is something I need to work on/improve. When choosing the music, I wanted to get the 1950s' but I also took into the consideration that the animation is a bit fast. The music is up-beat and I think it works quite well with the animation. Because of this, when I was making it and thought certain sections looked a bit rushed, the music made it quite funny and it didn't seem so bad.

Stamp Of Nature -Art Of by dreason23

Fantastic Voyage: Writing in the book

Here is another section from the animation. This section is very important as it is the part that explains each stage of the life cycle. It works quite well. Maybe a bit too fast and weird the hand/pencil only moves in a straight line, but I like how it looks. In the final animation it will be cut between the life cycle itself, so these little issues won't be too bad.

What If? Metropolis #2 : Final idea

Whilst I'm waiting for things to load/save in the Fantastic Voyage animation, I wanted to do a quick post just to give a little idea of the city. I will still be making the shanty town and compact/crowded city that I have talked about before, but I will incorporate certain features from several pieces of Hofmann's work. For example, from fig.1 the light blue area will be made into a river. Fig.2 has that stair-like shape, so there will be crooked stairs around the city as a way of getting around it. And from fig.3 there will be tall adjacent buildings that will have a similar shape to the ones in that piece.

Fig. 1

Fig. 2

Fig. 3

Fantastic Voyage: Scene 2 + WI?M UPDATE

Having just realised that I haven't posted anything for a while, I thought I'd post this to show how it's going. Although this is just the one shot, I have done other shots from the animation but haven't completed them all and put them together. I have had to do other things so I have had to delay completing the animation once again.

I have also been completing the What If? Metropolis re-sit and have been working on thumbnails. I have done some silhouettes using the shapes from Hofmann's work, which don't work too well. I have re-created more compositions in his style, and have taken some of his work into Maya and have extruded the shapes, which have given some interesting results. I will post these in the coming days.