Art of Baucis

7/23/2019 Art of Baucis

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The role of a concept artist is to imagine a great sense of

space and perspective from worlds we know, to world that are

yet to be conjured up within the minds of visionary directors

and artists alike.

My role within this project was to delve deep within Italo

Calvinos Invisible Cities. A new CG animated adaptation of

this is in pre-production. As a concept artist I must take

inspiration from one of Calvinos mystical cities and create 3

original concept paintings that showcase my chosen city in all

its glory.

Concept


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BaucisAFTER A SEVEN days march through woodland, the

traveller directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and

yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from

the ground at a great distance from one another and are

lose above the clouds support the city. You climb them

with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show

themselves: Having already everything they need up

there, they prefer not to come down. Nothing of the city

touched the earth except those flamingo legs on which it

rest and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular

shadow that falls on the foliage. There are three

hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis; That they

hate the earth; that they respect it so much they avoid

all contact; that they love it as it was before they

existed and with spyglasses and telescopes aimed

downward they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf,

stone by stone, ant by ant, contemplating with

fascination their own absence.


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Research
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRxqFQoTCNjQ3q6Z1sgCFQIMGgodlJUFtQ&url=https://manifaustin.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/pretty-pics/img_4433/&bvm=bv.105814755,d.cWw&psig=AFQjCNEFDzNkG8RyAbh3zcMT2EF5AqYibA&ust=1445607396357064


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Abstract colour thumbnails


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Thumbnails


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Study

Plateau mountain studies


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Exterior establishing development


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Exterior establishing shot: Side by side comparison


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Thumbnails

St d


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StudyWithin this study I wanted

to test both colour and

texture, both of which are

of high importance within my

final paintings

Over grow

foliage g

buildings

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that this

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feel. As

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the earth


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Low exterior establishing shot: Side by side comparison


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Low exterior development


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Thumbnails

St d


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Study

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Study


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Within this shot I added a cave

painting which I looked at during my

studies of certain aspects of the

city.

I wanted it to symbolise the

inhabitants ancestors celebration of

the city they had created


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Interior development


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Low exterior establishing shot: Side by side comparison


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Art of Baucis