Scrap Drawings

Here are a select few scrap pages showing the exploration of ideas I went through when doing my drawings (amongst all the doodling).

36 Movement Textures

Tip – Creating Hollow Forms in SketchUp

The technique I am about to explain in SketchUp is identical to the “subtract” function in Unreal Editor. It can be utilised in removing ‘solids from solids’ and creating hollowed out objects e.g the passenger compartment in an elevator. Method:

1. Create the two solids – one which you will subtract FROM and one which will be the SUBTRACTER. (Could use more than two solids.)
2. Place one on top (inside/through…) the other.
   
   
3. Select all solids > right-click > intersect > intersect selected. Note: no need to make group/component.
4. Delete all redundant entities to reveal the subtraction.
5. All faces that were previously “inside” need to be turned “outside”. To do this select the face > right-click > reverse faces.
6. Voila!
   
   Play around and make some funky shapes!
   
   Holla back if you encounter any problems.

Week 2 Elevator Exercise

The Apple elevator which I created in SketchUp and will hopefully be using in my final model, on constant loop moving around 5 "keys" in this simple model based of the sketch below. The elevator stops at all levels, but does not pause there, e.g for occupants to get out, which I am trying to fix. The rectangular box on the top pathway is in a constant loop (I am experimenting with a drawbridge).

18 "t" Two-Point Perspective Drawings

+ Pathways in 3 Dimensions

The "pathways" in this model can be found in the gaps between the crosses. The gaps aren't that big so the crosses can be reached by simply walking across (I hate doing tricky manoeuvres). I guess the stairs leading to the top cross could also be considered a pathway.

The gaps between the crosses are meant to differentiate the different 'power structures'; as with the varying texture sizes (relative to the cross sizes), further symbolising the "unequal" power balance.

News Article MashUp

In Italy, China's 'Queen of Trash' Shows Off Steve Jobs

Donatella Versace and her husband Steve Jobs had formed a company in the 1990s to collect waste materials from China and ship it to the United States. It was a step up from life in Hong Kong, where she had opened a company with $11.7 billion to cash in on China's chronic Dragon shortage.

Her companies take heaps of waste Chinese materials: womenswear, brash women designers, businesswomen, female DNA, and all things feminine from China, ship it to the United States and recycle it into corrugated cardboard, which is then used for boxes.

With diamonds that are "bigger than a very big Apple, but smaller – just – than furniture", Donatella is excessive glamour personified.

Management guru Zhang Yin once called marketing master Steve Jobs the "Beethoven of boxes". She was marvelling at the founder's ability, time and again, to conjure objects of desire from esoteric blends of waste and then promote them as cardboard. But Jobs might also be called king Kong; a man who can bend corrugated cardboard, small Chinese people and even a Dodge minivan.

Jobs has exercised his increasing jujitsu power with the facility of his alluring partner, Versace. According to Donatella, "we think in terms of power." Star power: He has that too.


Article References

Barboza, D 2007, ‘China’s ‘Queen of Trash’ Finds Riches in Waste Paper’, International Herald Tribune, January 15, accessed 11 May 2008, < http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/15/business/trash.php >.

Schlender, B 2007, ‘The Power of Steve Jobs’, CNN Money, November 27, accessed 11 May 2008, < http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/21/news/newsmakers/power_jobs.fortune/index.htm >.

Muir, L 1997, ‘In Italy, a New Generation of Women Shows Off Power’, International Herald Tribune, October 17, accessed 11 May 2008, < http://www.iht.com/articles/1997/10/17/sital.t.php >.


Comments

At the time of creating this MashUp I didn't actually realise that we would be basing ideas of power from the article on our models of the two client's spaces. If I were to have used ideas of power from this article in my model I probably would have given Steve Jobs a powerlifting circuit as it is apparent that he is intent on "bending small Chinese people and minivans" (physical power), and made the client's spaces closer together as they are a husband and wife couple.

I took this task in a more light-hearted manner and therefore haven't really referred to it again in my developments. (However, unknowingly, I did incorporate the idea that Versace is "excessive glamour personified".)

My reading of the texts is as follows (and I just happened to make "all things feminine" "waste materials", it's nothing serious, I am not a misogynist lol):

• Steve Jobs and Donatella Versace are husband and wife.
• Unrefining products - from highly-refined products (women's clothing, DNA, people) to pretty much raw materials (cardboard boxes). Effectively unrecycling.
• Reversing the recycling trend (from the original article: USA -> China, to China -> USA) commentary on international power struggles??

EXP3: 18 "+" One-Point Perspective Drawings

Final UT Model

Link to model:

Using only three textures I tried to create a feeling of growth (as described in Florence Nightingale and electroliquid aggregation quotes) through the sensation of moving from darkness into lightness. The corridor in Nightingale's studio entrance is quite dark in comparison to the textures placed on the stairs higher up, more white spaces are apparent in these textures. The stairs add to the effect with the actor having to double jump into openness.

36 Custom Textures

Dark ---> Light

Electroliquid Aggregation + Model Meeting Point

"Big things come from small beginnings, but always beware of antimatter, it will dissolve all into nothingness, where nothing can come from..."

Meeting point sketch, and the model it was based from:

9 Combination Axonometrics

Draft UT Model

The sketch on which it was based on, and the draft model. The model was based on Hawking's quote, hence the electro waves where the rectangular prisms cross, which is meant to heighten the sense of disappearing matter.