“Journeyscape” is the title of our very first big project. This project entails a lot of the work we have been doing leading up to this point. We will be tasked with 3D modeling several different 3D scenes pertaining to a fictional film, television show, video game, book, etc. This will mean 3 different 3D scenes, from beginning, middle, and end.
To begin, I started brainstorming my favorite movies and books. They pretty much instantly came to me. The first being Moonrise Kingdom, a film by Wes Anderson. I drafted up my ideas and placed them onto a page.
My next thought was Portrait of a Lady on Fire. I had a lot of ideas from this one, especially considering I’ve watched it so many times. The hardest part was deciding what scenes could be considered “beginning, middle, and end” considering the movie is so long.
After sketching this out, I was pretty much sold on the concept. I wanted to create the iconic scene where Heloise stands at the fire and her dress catches on fire as she looks at Marianne. To me, this scene symbolizes the moment in which she fell in love with Marianne, and it very symbolically sets her life on fire.
There is a lot that can be done with this, and I think creating this in a low poly 3D environment will create a very intriguing project.
I started with one of my favorite scenes, and the true inspiration for this project. The first thing I began to tackle was setting up the background scene. In the movie, Heloise is standing in the dark, with only the fire to illuminate her from across the way. I did add a dull moonlight to better cast colors. I began morphing the shapes into odd geometric trees and bushes.
I saved Heloise for last, and knew I would be able to reuse her form for my other scenes, as she is an integral part of the scenes themselves. I did not add much detail at this point, and began going in with different materials and adjusting the lighting for the fire to get them to a point that I liked them.
I then moved on to the other two scenes, one in which Heloise is posed for her painting, looking at herself from the neck down in the mirror. I used her same form with some adjustments to the dress.
I then added in a frame and the curtains framing the scene, and then was able to adjust materials and lighting.
I then moved on to my last scene, one of the end movie scenes where a painting of Heloise pays homage to Marianne by having the painter keep a tab open to get book, page 28, when they had shared an intimate moment earlier on in their lives as well as the story,
I added several frames, and I actually liked the simplicity of leaving the frames blank, so I let Heloise in her new marriage attire be the focal point. The final rendered images of each scene can be seen in order below.
