Shadow Box Render

Tobobo

Hey,

Just two quick images of a shadow box I am doing as part of my MA. Its a conceptual look at the poem Twa Corbies.

http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/corbies.htm

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Any comments welcome

ledisnomad

Hey, Tobobo.

Interesting idea to work from a poem. Is it an assignment or did you come up with the idea yourself?

Three thoughts I have after reading the poem and looking at your renderings:

The poem is quite dark and cynical, right? I think you could portray that in the renderings with some moodier lighting.
Have you seen the paper relief models that Zaha Hadid maked/s? It could be interesting to combine the flatness of shadowboxes with a flat-ish architetural representation. Even just scale everything to flatten it and play with the field of view.
The stair are the most architectural element and could use some development. The texture on the treads doesn't seem right. And the form could either be more real (stringers holding thin treads) or conceptual like a physical model (a little overlap of each stair like they are glued or just floating treads like it is purely computer graphics without gravity).

Look forward to seeing where this goes.

Tobobo

@unknownuser said:

Interesting idea to work from a poem. Is it an assignment or did you come up with the idea yourself?

It’s an MA assignment, it is a very conceptual look at the poem. The idea being that libraries are becoming obsolete and this will be a virtual environment for the viewer to experience the poem.

@unknownuser said:

Three thoughts I have after reading the poem and looking at your renderings:

The poem is quite dark and cynical, right? I think you could portray that in the renderings with some moodier lighting.

I was looking for the realism of the actual model I am going to build, to show the tutor my plans.

@unknownuser said:

Have you seen the paper relief models that Zaha Hadid maked/s? It could be interesting to combine the flatness of shadowboxes with a flat-ish architetural representation. Even just scale everything to flatten it and play with the field of view.

I have, her work is very interesting

@unknownuser said:

The stair are the most architectural element and could use some development. The texture on the treads doesn't seem right. And the form could either be more real (stringers holding thin treads) or conceptual like a physical model (a little overlap of each stair like they are glued or just floating treads like it is purely computer graphics without gravity).
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The stairs are just a means to an end for getting the viewer down the change in level. But following a tutorial yesterday I am exchanging the stairs for a ladder.

I will post photos of the finish article soon (when I build it)