Influence Maps

The large collection of influence maps below demonstrate the inspiration for the designs of my characters, locations and props. The first three influence maps were created earlier in the project, but were not uploaded 'til a more recent date.

1. Influence Map - Trombone.

2. Influence Map - Inventor.

3. Influence Map - Beauty Parlour Interior.

The second series of influence maps, below, were created on 06/02/2013, after revising the initial story-line of the short animation.

4. Influence Map - Balcony.

5. Influence Map - Beautician.

6. Influence Map - Beauty Parlour Exterior.

7. Influence Map - Instruments.

8. Influence Map - Musician.

9. Influence Map - Garden.

Influence Map - Final

The influence map below demonstrates the most influential images with regards to the final outcomes.

1. Atom Structure (Top Left), Orrery (Top Right), Dinotopia Necklace (Bottom Left), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army Character, Liz Sherman (Bottom Right).

Influence Map - 4

This influence map, below, contains images of orreries, solar flares and a piece of work by Dale Chihuly. These have greatly influenced the design of the external appearance of my lair, which was originally designed as a simple sphere located at the centre of the Sun.

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Influence Maps - 1-3

I have created the three influence maps (below) to aid me in designing the secret lair of my character, gaining an understanding of the character (top),the use of the prop (middle), and the exterior appearance (bottom).

Character

 Prop

 Lair Exterior

Influence Maps - 3 & 4

The two influence maps below contain the images that have influenced my designs for the library and saloon of the Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Cinematic Spaces

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea



Title page from the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
written by Jules Verne (1870).

Overview
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a novel, written by the French author Jules Gabriel Verne in 1870. He is often referred to as one of the pioneers of the science fiction genre, with his most famous novels, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a science fiction story of a scientist, Professor Pierre Aronnax, and his assistant, Consiel, who embark on a mission to track and destroy a monstrous marine creature that is attacking and sinking ships. Although, after setting out on their mission, the ship they are travelling on is struck by an unusual object, damaging the steering and causing the Professor, his assistant and a master harpooner, Ned Land, to fall overboard.

The three men, stranded at sea, soon discover that the object that the ship they were travelling in hit is in fact a submersible boat, the Nautilus, captained by a man called Nemo. The men travel with Nemo across the seven seas, travelling the distance mentioned in the title of the novel.

Book Extracts
Below are the extracts from the book that I will design the spaces and environments for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The underlined sections of the extracts are the descriptive texts that I am going to focus on to aid in designing the spaces and environments of the novel.

Influence Maps
Below are my first two influence maps.





 

 

Thumbnail Sketches

The images below are the first groups of thumbnails sketches for the book extracts from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.