Character Bible

Character Bible

Thumbnail Sketches - 40-50

The collection of thumbnails, below, are the resulting images, from the combination of the sculptural design with the spherical layout of the liar, in an attempt to merge the sculptures with their surroundings.

In image #41, the inspiration for the imagery derived from the sculptural figureheads of medieval to middle age warships, which are constructed into the front of the ships.



Resorting back to the influences from orreries, images #43 & #44, were an attempt at highlighting the deity connotations of the relating characters, by constructing gigantic statues surrounding the central glass sphere structure.

 

The resurrection of the orrery influences also greatly inspired images #47 - #50.

 

Thumbnail Sketches - 28-40

The series of images (below) are thumbnail sketches for my secret lair, located at the centre of the sun, with a sculpture room, and an external view of the lair (without the surrounding solar gases).

 To create a more deity-like appearance to the lair, I decided to design a room where there are sculptures of each goddess, representing water, wood, earth and metal, four of the five feng shui elements. There is also a large sculpture of the chief god above the doorway. The other images, #28, #30, #31 and #32 are experimental variations of the main sculpture, the solar (or fire element in feng shui) goddess.

 

The above images, #33 to #39, are sketched designs for the exterior of the secret lair, which will be mainly made of glass to create an unusual glow on the interior objects. The entire lair will become totally encased in the gases of the Sun, becoming the power that hold the flames in position. These thumbnails were inspired by the appearance of both orreries and solar flares, resulting in the bizarre rings that rotate around the central sphere.

 

The final thumbnail, image #40, is the resulting image from the combination of all my previous hero prop designs, which was culminated by placing the fiery orb, from digital thumbnail sketch #3, The Globe Room, at the base of the sculpture, and the magical amulet, from thumbnail sketch #7, around the statues neck.

 

Digital Thumbnail Sketches - 3 & 4

These images (below) are a pair of digital thumbnails of my character's secret lair at the core of the sun. The first image is of the interior of one of the rooms, with large glass windows and the placement of a hero prop design, a hovvering fire globe of the Earth, where the goddess can witness her effects and influences on the Earth. The second images the exterior appearance of the lair, surrounded by the gases of the sun.

 1. The Globe Room.

2. Secret Lair Exterior.

 

Thumbnail Sketches - 1-27

The images below are a series of thumbnail sketches, of the character, hero props, and location interiors and exteriors, for the secret lairs project.

Digital Painting - Session 5

The six digital images (below) were created during a Photoshop Tutorial, on 9th November 2012.

1. Channels.

 2. Tiling.

 3. Digital Painting.

4. Thumbnail Sketch.

5. Texturing

6. Texturing.

Digital Thumbnail Sketches - 1 & 2

The two images (below)are digital painting thumbnails of the exterior of my character's secret lair, which I have created in order to understand my character better.

My designated character is a solar goddess.

Thumbnails Sketches - 63-80

The series of images below are my final set of thumbnails sketches, as I have chosen numbers #65, #68 and #75 to be developed into my final concept paintings.

Thumbnail Sketches - 44-62

The series of images (below) are several thumbnail sketches of concepts for the library and the saloon/museum interiors aboard the Nautilus.

Thumbnail Sketches - 32-43

The images below are a series of thumbnails depicting several scenes of the book excerpts from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, including an ocean chasm, a kelp forest and a shallow sandy plain.

Thumbnail Sketches - 23-31

The images below are several thumbnails sketches, inspired by my extracts from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

The series of images (below) are experimentations with coloured pencils with shading over the top, to create the idea of luminous beings and objects in a dark underwater chasm.

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.