The next assignment which is due for next Thursday is again is to do something Surreal. I have come up with two mood boards already, and I think im going to have more than two to really help the creative process and help me think of something surreal to create myself. I think i'm going to find this challenging because there are just so many different things I could do for this assignment, so I think it's vital I get going on it straight away incase I crash and burn halfway through (like the robot assignment!).

In both of these mood boards there are certain images that really stand out to me and that I like alot. The main photo out of the mood boards that I really like is in the first mood board, the top right hand image because it's very modern, not like the usual images you would expect when someone says Surrealism and I also really love the use of colour.

I have re done my robot assignment because it was just horrendous and I couldn't stand to even look at it. I have still stuck with using animals, but I have experimented with the idea of Frankenstein. 

Here is a quick sketch of the head. I was still unsure as to whether I wanted to do it in 2D or 3D but I thought it was a good idea to have a rough sketch of a chimpanzee as I had never drawn one before.

Here i am playing around with how i want the body to look, where I want the light to hit and that sort of thing. 

As well as doing this, i tried to do another crab robot:

This robot is actually finished, unlike the chimpanzee; however I still am not happy with it. This assignment i really didn't enjoy. For some reason i just couldn't do it to a standard i was happy with. I think i tried to be too creative in my ideas, so that when i finally came to do them they fell very short of what i wanted to achieve with them, and don't look very robot-y at all. 

This is a quick sketch I did for my robot assignment. I like this one as I think it's quite cute and I like that its simple.

Because this was just a quick sketch I quickly did some shading just to give myself an idea of where the light would be coming from.

Here I just added a background colour which enables you to see the shading. 

This is my mood board for the robot assignment, I might make a few more just to give myself a broad range of ideas and this way I will also be able to see what has already been done.

At this moment in time I am thinking of doing an animal robot like the cheetah in the top left hand side of the mood board however I am not certain yet if that is what I will do for my final piece.

These are some additional mood boards I decided to create to help my thinking process of what robot I could make.

For our next task we have to create a robot concept piece, and the mood boards and sketches are going to be uploaded before the final piece. We're allowed to create cyborgs however they have to be at least 75% robot. Like last week we are allowed to do it in Photoshop or 3Ds Max whatever we prefer. For this I might do it in 3Ds Max to challenge myself and stretch the skills I have accomplished so far.

My Tentacle Creature.

First photo without a texture, second photo with a texture.

I decided to do one version with a texture just to experiment with it and see what it would look like.

 

 I spent a lot of time focusing on the light and shading as I found that was a vital part I needed to work on over the summer, as I tended to struggle with it in last years tasks and assessments. I wanted my tentacle creature to look like an alien version of a normal jelly fish/ squid, and by playing around with the textures I just wanted to see what I could create and see how it would look in different ways. 



For this week we have been tasked to make a tentacle creature, we can use either a 3D software (3Ds Max) or 2D software (Photoshop) to do it. I have opted to it in Photoshop as I couldnt decide how I was going to go about constructing it in 3D. In the end I have come up with two idea/sketches that I like, and from there I will choose which one I will finish off from my final concept idea.

I wanted to do two completely different ideas, and I feel I have achieved that. For both of them I included colour samples and notes about each idea.