Evening! Thanks your patience. Got you email earlier today, will respond, but in the meantime, focus on the feedback here and have some fun drawing pink, knobbly flamingo knees... :)
What I love about this project (and working with students generally) is the huge diversity in terms of student outcomes for the same city. I'm just going to share with you feedback on Tom's OGR, who is also working on Baucis - and you'll see just how different these cities can be!
What I love about your thumbnails is that sense of surreal fun, reminding me of Terry Gilliam's Monty Python animations, the Yellow Submarine and Adventure Time. I also like the way you're originating your thumbnails - ink blots etc. Getting these into Photoshop to further elaborate on them will be exciting; I love mixed media stuff - I think CGI needs more of that! So, yes, I'm looking forward to seeing this 'cartoon-ier' approach develop, but one of your challenges is going to be ensuring you're no less ambitious in terms of dealing with scale: Baucis is a city - so something complex and massive and hefty, and comprised, like cities are, of buildings of different scale, shape and function. I suggested that Tom maybe look at some of those sinister gadgets for surveilling people from which to derive his Baucis architecture - perhaps, given those flamingo legs, you might want to concentrate your research on looking at other birds that associate with eyesight and looking ...
My general point is I think there's lots of potential in working up the 'birds-eye view' aspect of Baucis and there's something exciting about your approach so far - it's fun, so have some more!
OGR 05/10/2018
ReplyDeleteEvening! Thanks your patience. Got you email earlier today, will respond, but in the meantime, focus on the feedback here and have some fun drawing pink, knobbly flamingo knees... :)
What I love about this project (and working with students generally) is the huge diversity in terms of student outcomes for the same city. I'm just going to share with you feedback on Tom's OGR, who is also working on Baucis - and you'll see just how different these cities can be!
http://caatom.blogspot.com/2018/10/off-record-note-i-only-achieved-halfof.html
What I love about your thumbnails is that sense of surreal fun, reminding me of Terry Gilliam's Monty Python animations, the Yellow Submarine and Adventure Time. I also like the way you're originating your thumbnails - ink blots etc. Getting these into Photoshop to further elaborate on them will be exciting; I love mixed media stuff - I think CGI needs more of that! So, yes, I'm looking forward to seeing this 'cartoon-ier' approach develop, but one of your challenges is going to be ensuring you're no less ambitious in terms of dealing with scale: Baucis is a city - so something complex and massive and hefty, and comprised, like cities are, of buildings of different scale, shape and function. I suggested that Tom maybe look at some of those sinister gadgets for surveilling people from which to derive his Baucis architecture - perhaps, given those flamingo legs, you might want to concentrate your research on looking at other birds that associate with eyesight and looking ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_vision
https://animalsake.com/animals-with-incredible-eyesight
... and seek to derive architectural forms from their defining features?
https://weburbanist.com/2015/03/04/aerodynamic-avian-architecture-12-bird-inspired-buildings/2/
http://www.yankodesign.com/2015/02/27/avian-inspired-architecture/
My general point is I think there's lots of potential in working up the 'birds-eye view' aspect of Baucis and there's something exciting about your approach so far - it's fun, so have some more!