Space and Environment Project 1:Cinematic Spaces

Candice Hiu Fu Leung

Content
Introduction Choosing Scenes Visual concept map Statement of visual concept Artist research & master study Influences maps of scenes

Key thumbnails
Creative partnership links

Introduction
The Lost World-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-1912 is the book I was given in this was . Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician . He wrote crime fiction but also adventures This book is famous till now and there were many different versions of film of the lost world by the time progressing.

Chose scenes
When I reading the chapters , most of them are lines but I found the description of the jungle at the beginning of the chapter, those two paragraphs give me imagination of who the jungle looks like and I am going to explore more in here.

Visual Concept Map

Statement
For my visual concept maps , I am looking at the nature picture which in the jungle and base on the scenes I have chosen from the book. And I also look at the concept art images of people have painted about this story. During the observation, I am doing my thumbnails with Photoshop and also pencils to improve my skills of using Photoshop and also keep my drawings in progressing with pencils. Although I havent got many ideas in thumbnails, I am going to experimenting different composition, perspective and lighting before I start paint in colours.And I enjoyed the time while its a development of my work, trying to look at different things and the real object in reality rather than image them by myself. I am going to create three scenes of mountain ,river landscape and the camping fire .

Artist research
These are the influence maps I have researched on Pixar and Hayao Miyazaki

Study with Hayao Miyazaki

I chose some of the images and explore them experimenting colours of green and jungles tone

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a French post- impressionist artist. He was famous from the painting of jungle. His inspiration usually comes from books and botanical gardens in Paris. His work was inspired me to think of colours and shapes, as his paintings of jungle were not complicated but the forms of each plant layers were crossing to each other.

Henri Rousseau

Master study with Lou Romano

Lou Romano who is an artist work in Pixar. This is a scene of Up produced in 2009 which I found on his blog. Painting with my observation of colours in Photoshop , was the same way as I have paint with oil or acrylic, all is about comparing and mixing.

Raphael Lacoste
Raphael Lacoste is a French concept artist; he won the VES Award in February 2006 while he was an art director at Ubisoft. He made illustrations, films; books cover and mainly work with video games.

Map Scene 1 : camping fire

Key thumbnails scene 1

Map Scene2: mountains

Key thumbnails scene2

Map Scene 3: river side

Key thumbnails scene 3

Creative partnership
Rosalyn Fenton25 September 2013 09:38 I like thumbnails 29, 35 and 41. I think 29 is more picturesque with good composition, 35 just intrigues me as if its leaves or ivy trying to reclaim something or the screen were looking at. Finally 41 i like as you can play with light alot here, reflected light and shadows, will be interesting to see developments :)

Kyle Kemp25 September 2013 17:00 Number 30, 42 and 44 have a good composition for some jaw dropping landscapes, while 41 has a very creepy nature, with the high contrast between the bright moon and dark trees setting the mood well. The composition for 39 has that creepy resonance but also a sense of grand scale and could be a real eye opener for your audience depending on how you wish to depict the tree, as its size and positioning makes it the focal point of the design and the deciding factor upon which emotion you wish your audience to feel :D Hope this helps!
Rubynewland.25 September 2013 11:43 Hey Candice I'm one of your creative partners :). I'm really liking your influence maps, a lovely range of imagery going on. I can't wait too see these being brought into your thumbnail sketches. Rosalyn Fenton2 October 2013 14:55 Hello Creative partner :) Just wanted to say i like 74, the contrast of scale is great with the silhouette small and the big landscape that is about to be explored. Would be great to see some more use of foreground, as if the viewer has to peer through leafs to see the long stretch of landscape? Lovely use of high contrasts in tone too :)