Adaptation B Interim Crit

Adaptation BInterim CritScarlett Freeman 27/03/2015

I choose the book the The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstien because when I read the story I looked at the story and thought about relationship between a mother and a child. Its about love, nurturing and family. The book is very deep because the boy keeps taking from the tree and the tree keeps giving to the boy to make him happy. Until one day the tree has nothing left because the boy who has grown into a man has left only a stump. That is when the man stops asking for anything but finally sits by the tree and enjoys the world go by. He is happy, which is what the tree wanted all along. I decided to take my project in a different direction to the story because I wanted to take the love part and use it as my main foundation and concept turning it into a fairytale with a magic tree.

Influence Maps and Ideas

Mother nature and the female form. Idea of using colour to show life, magic age.

Character Research and Ideas from the female form

Development

Direction change. Using Facial features to influence my design and show the nurturing form of a female to a tree.

Final Design Ideas

Hands and arms in certain position have a motherly connotation and mean embrace and nurture. I incorporated that into my tree using curves like a loving embrace.

Maya Experiments

Orthographic Process and understanding my character in 3D

Orthographic of the face to model separately in Maya.

What it will look like and how I will light and texture it in Maya.

I will use colour to show the change and growth. Making the colours duller like showing life decaying with age.

Challenges in Maya with texturing

Leaves

Using Alans on Shader FX Part 4: Transparency I will use the same idea to texture my leaves. Using transparently on flat polygon planes with my own textures I will be able to manipulate the geometry to create leaves. The issue I may have is randomness with dispersing my leaves on the tree making it look natural.

LightingWith another one of Alans tutorials, Mental Ray Part 4: Physical Sun & Sky I will use lighting to show the different seasons in my scene. As I eventually want 4 scenes with 4 different season this tutorial will be very important for me and my environment.

What needs to be done next?Modeling out my character in its 4 stagesFinalise colour choicesFinalise background and environment design

What I would like to do if I have time. Designing the boy character