Final piece, Earth Island

This piece is drawing attention to the similarities between the planet earth and Easter Island, the wastefulness of resources, obsession with statues or buildings (making them bigger and bigger), and wars over scarcity of resources, in Easter Islands case food in our case oil. I watched "Princess Monoke" by studio ghibli to give me ideas on composition.

Palm Tree and Crane

This is actually the second palm tree I made but I destroyed the original during the creation of this one by mistake I simply extruded and twisted a cube until I got a nice trunk shape stuck a texture on it and used automatic mapping, then made one leave textured it and duplicated it a dozen times.







The karakuri crane I made probably took about as long as my entire piece, and in the actual composition it is barely visible, I found that I really enjoyed working with cogs and mechanical things, the crane would function if it where real all of the cogs are aligned and when the handle turns the crane would turn aswell, this I made using the knowledge from the mechanical pieces along with my imagination.

Mountains

I followed this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOYaLpSK4XY the guy who does them is really thorough and explains alot, I made the mountain by making a displacement map on photoshop and then converting it to geometry and playing about with a few of the settings like 'aplha is luminence' and then got these mountains:

Then I textured, scaled, and made a little scene using another plane and an ocean shader.

Smoke

This is the product of a tutorial on clouds that I messed about with abit to try and make smoke, it doesnt look that great I'm still trying to figure out how to manipulate the shape of it more but unfortuneately the tutorial didnt cover that.

Grass experiment

I followed a tutorial online on how to make realistic grass, it didnt turn out that well and was more hassle than it was worth but it looks ok

Textures I made

These are some textures I made using digital photographs and photoshop

Moai Head

This is my Moai statue (easter island head) development, getting the initial shape didn't really take long but I have made so many changes over the last few months to it the final one is at the bottom.

Resource Destruction

These are my Resource destruction pieces they are essentially along the right lines of what i wanted visually but there was always something off, so i started again, but i believe they were necessary in order to explore lighting modelling and composition.

this piece includes very bad grass texturing and a pretty rubbishly drawn sunset by me

Easter Island Robot

This was one of my first ideas for my 3D piece, the theme was about resource destruction and wastefulness and it was a sort of joke that the people of Easter Island had wasted there wood to build massive robots and that these robots where mostly underground, but I didnt go very far with it only got the legs done.

machine parts

These are machine parts that I made following a tutorial on how to make a mechanical spider, I made these to further my modelling abilities in maya.