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Unit 2: SpaceOnline Green-Light Review

Gabriel Burokas

Folder 5: The Lost World by Conan Doyle

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Contents

Slide 3: Links to weekly workSlide 4: Project IntroductionSlide 5: AuthorSlide 6: Book SummarySlide 7: AdaptationsSlide 8: Visual ConceptSlide 9: Three Scenes BreakdownSlide 10: Visual Concept Influence MapSlide 11: Scene 1 Influence MapSlide 12: Scene 2 Influence MapSlide 13: Scene 3 Influence MapSlide 14: Scene 1 Key ThumbnailsSlide 15: Scene 2 Key Thumbnails

Slide 16: Scene 3 Key ThumbnailsSlide 17: Assignment Introduction

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Weekly Work

Maya (Digital Set): http://burokasdesign.blogspot.com/2011/11/maya-progess.html

Photoshop (Week6+7):http://burokasdesign.blogspot.com/2011/11/photoshop-week-6-and-7.html

Worlds Apart 1 Review:http://burokasdesign.blogspot.com/2011/11/worlds-apart-1-robert-weines-cabinet-of.html

Worlds Apart 2 Review:http://burokasdesign.blogspot.com/2011/11/worlds-apart-2-fritz-langs-metropolis.html

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Project Introduction

For Unit 2: Space we have been given excerpts from a book(s)which details certain visual environments within the narrative.We then have to create three digital paintings using Photoshopbased on visual clues gathered from the excerpts.The final three paintings have to be preceded by a hundred

thumbnails to fully develop all ideas that surround one scene.

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Author

The Lost Worldwas written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, aScottish writer born in 1859. His extensive bibliography rangesmany genres however his most notable book has to be SherlockHolmes, a character that is infamous to this day.His character from The Lost World, Professor Challenger, also

remains an icon himself. So Doyle was able to create not onebut many famous icons that people to this day still recognise.

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Book Summary

The Lost Worldis set around the 1910s just like its publication date in 1912. Ittakes up the story of a young journalist by the name of Edward Malone; he isdesperate to become a hero in the eyes of the woman he wishes to marry. Hisneed to do something extraordinary brings him to a story about trying to provefalse a certain professor that claims to have evidence of a new world not seenby man. This man is Professor Challenger and to prove his story, the two menplus a few extras embark on a trip to explore this lost world.Their expedition leads them through many troubles, one of which is findingthemselves in a war between ape-men and tribal humans where they help thetribal humans defeat the ape-men. Not wanting them to leave the party have toescape back to England where upon their arrival they are nearly accused offalsifying their claims, however Challenger shows them a live pterodactyl.The members of the party then go their separate ways with Malone and one of

the other members journeying back to the lost world.

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Adaptations

The Lost Worldhas been visualised and reused many times over theyears simply for its influential story. It appeared in many TV films,regular films, and radio narrations but most notably has to be itsinfluence on the movie Jurassic Park. Its not a direct adaptation but theconcept of venturing to a lost world filled with prehistoric creaturesremains true to the book. At the end of Jurassic Park pterodactyls can

be seen flying away in freedom and this reflects the end of The LostWorldwhere Challenger reveals a pterodactyl to the audience thatends up flying off.

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Visual Concept

For this book I want to create digital paintings that give a senseof a mystical world. Not necessarily mystical in terms of fairiesand unicorns but more like environments that normally dontoccur in our world, or are at least really difficult to get to. TheLost Worldcontains many dinosaurs so naturally a Jurassic

world can be visualised as a jungle covered mountainousregion.In the book there are many key words that reference toAmazonian flora and I want to capture this in my paintingsthroughout the three scenes so that they seem prehistoric in

nature.

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Scene BreakdownsScene 1: The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnelof verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvellous from thestrange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall. Clear as crystal,motionless as a sheet of glass, green as the edge of an iceberg, it stretched in front of us under its leafyarchway, every stroke of our paddles sending a thousand ripples across its shining surface. It was a fittingavenue to a land of wonders.

Scene 2: Their place was taken by an immense wilderness of bamboo, which grew so thickly that wecould only penetrate it by cutting a pathway with the machetes and bill-hooks of the Indians. Anything

more monotonous and wearying could not be imagined, for, even at the most open places, I could not seemore than ten or twelve yards, while usually my vision was limited to the back of Lord John's cotton jacketin front of me, and to the yellow wall within a foot of me on either side. From above came one thin knifeedge of sunshine, and fifteen feet over our heads one saw the tops of the reeds swaying against the deepblue sky.

Scene 3: At last (my watch showed that it was one in the morning) I saw the gleam of water amid theopenings of the jungle, and ten minutes later I was among the reeds upon the borders of the central lake.Close to the water's edge there was a huge isolated block of lava. Up this I climbed, and, lying on the top, Ihad an excellent view in every direction. The first thing which I saw filled me with amazement. When Idescribed the view from the summit of the great tree, I said that on the farther cliff I could see a number ofdark spots, which appeared to be the mouths of caves. Now as I looked up at the same cliffs, I saw discs oflight in every direction, ruddy, clearly-defined patches, like the portholes of a liner in the darkness. LakeGladys - my own lake - lay like a sheet of quicksilver before me, with a reflected moon shining brightly inthe centre of it. It was shallow, for in many places I saw low sandbanks protruding above the water.Everywhere upon the still, surface I could see signs of life, sometimes mere rings and ripples in the water,sometimes the gleam of a great silver-sided fish in the air, sometimes the arched, slate coloured back of

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Visual Concept Influence Map

The main influence for this mapis the centre image taken fromthe film The Fountain, where thetree of life is growing atop anAztec pyramid. This gives a realsense of lost world that I can use.

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Scene 1 Influence Map

Since my first scene is located inthe hidden river passage Ivegathered images that have a tightatmosphere and contain astream or river. The main middleinfluence is from Guild Wars 2,the concept art gives a nicesense of depth to such a smallspace.

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Scene 2 Influence Map

For the second scene which is abamboo forest I gathered imageson how to better portray a wall ofbamboo dynamically rather thanflat. Also in the bottom rightimage I to have a reference onhow light goes through bamboosince that was in the excerpt.

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Scene 3 Influence Map

My final map is for the lake scenein which the main character sitson a lava rock and can see awide distance and has a view ofthe plateau off further ahead.

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Scene 2 Key Thumbnails

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Scene 3 Key Thumbnails

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Assignment Introduction

This essay will be looking at how modern CGI affects cinema and howits used to visually communicate ideas to an audience. To help explainthis topic the film Star Wars: Revenge of the Sithwill be used in termsof its concept design and how that is transformed into CGI. Things thatwill mainly be focused on are the environment scenes throughout thefilm which provide a broad range of material to analyse.

Other sources that will be used to aid this topic are Ryan Churchsconcept art, a person whos personally worked on Star Wars design;and Expose 2: finest digital art in the known universeby Daniel Wadeand Mark Snoswell, which features an article about Ryan Church withquotes from him about his design processes.

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