Computer Animation Arts Year 1

Space & Environment: Invisible

Cities
Online Greenlight Review
Robin Saker 7/10/15

Invisible Cities Thumbnails

1-6 - Sketchbook

7-12 Sketchbook
(Despina 11-12)

Invisible Cities Thumbnails

13-22 - Photoshop

23-32 - Photoshop

Invisible Cities Thumbnails

33-36 Photoshop (Despina)

37-40 Photoshop (Despina)

Invisible Cities Thumbnails

41-44 Photoshop (Despina)

45-48 Photoshop (Despina)

Despina Harbour City

FROM DESERT TO HARBOUR:
When the camel driver sees, at the horizon of the tableland, the pinnacles of the
skyscrapers come into view, the radar antennae, the white and red wind-socks flapping,
the chimneys belching smoke, he thinks of a ship; he knows it as a city, but he thinks of it
as a vessel that will take him away from the desert, a windjammer about to cast off, with
the breeze already swelling the sails, not yet unfurled, or a steamboat with its boiler
vibrating in the iron keel; and he thinks of all the ports, the foreign merchandise the
cranes unload on the docks, the taverns where crews of different flags break bottles over
one anothers heads, the lighted, ground-floor windows, each with a woman combing her
hair.

Despina Mission Statement

Became excited reading first half of Despina, describing scenario as if ship design blew up
to be entire city, eventually thinking about exaggerating common ship and harbour
components and expanding throughout buildings and houses. Interested in merging my
own personal influence map containing elements of bright/harmonious colours, maze-like
structures and childlike personalities (e.g. world expos and amusement parks), as well as
touching on experiences from holidays to coastal harbours (family-friendly) Rockport, St.
Ives, Whitstable, etc. In short, exaggerating childlike sailing fantasy (perhaps imaginative
peaceful escapism), in sense of bright colours, blocky shapes, etc.
Colour schemes:
Exterior Aqua blue, navy blue, rainbow colours (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue,
Indigo, Violet), greyscale, beige, gold, white, etc.
Interior Brown, orange, navy blue, yellow, red, beige, gold, white, etc.

Visual Concept - Influence Maps

Exterior Harbour City

Interior Sailors Tavern

Despina Key Thumbnails

Blog Weblinks
Digital Painting & Photoshop
Abstract Response/Gestalt: Esmeralda http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/photoshop-class-abstract_29.html
Abstract Response/Gestalt: Esmeralda http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/photoshop-class-abstract.html
Word Stacks (Ideation): Esmeralda http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/photoshop-class-word-stacks-ideation.html
Master Study Warm-Up http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/photoshop-class-master-study-warm-up.html
Still Life Apples http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/photoshop-exercises-still-life-apples.html
Still Life Pears http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/photoshop-exercises-still-life-pears.html

Maya & Character Animation

Maya Texturing: Common Shaders http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/maya-texturingcommon-shaders.html
Maya: Block Modelling http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/maya-block-model
ling-ray-gun.html
Maya: Modelling in 3D Software http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/maya-modelling-i
n-3d-software.html
Animation & Character: Zoetrope & Flash Exercises
http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/animation-charact
er-zoetrope-flash.html

Blog Weblinks
Film Reviews
Robert Wiene The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1920] http://
sakerandco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/space-oddities-cabinet-of-dr-caligari.html