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Type: Cover Design for Strange
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Brief:
"The Diogenes Robot, six feet tall, stood
on the sidewalk, one arm upraised, the other stiffly
at its side. The upraised claw held a lantern.
Nothing shined inside the hollow cage of the lantern.
No bulb, no flame.
The robot's face:
Round, glass-shielded eyes. Raised areas in the
forehead for brows. Another raised area for a
nose. Empty slit of a mouth.
A tin can, pretending to be a head, perched atop
a bigger tin can pretending to be a body, with
twin columns of smaller tin cans pretending to
be legs underneath." Description
from Diogenes Robot, which was the basis of the
illustration. |
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Inspiration:
The Tin Can Man in Wizard of Oz. |
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Creative
Strategy:
The description of the robot, had a retro feel
to it. It was important to give it a Tin Man look,
yet give it a distinctive look on its own. It
had to retain a certain sense of innocence and
simplicity of its own. Something like the 50s/60s
low budget Sci Fi movies. Yet it shouldn't look
like a man-in-a-suit.
Was a bit stumped in terms of how to give it a
distinctive look on the basis of a 'Tin Can'.
Decided to build it around a trash can instead.
The story also had a certain sense of foreboding
in it, which needed to be conveyed by the atmosphere
of the illustration. |
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Execution:
Modelled the Robot in Wings 3D as also the
lantern and the busstop. Rendered the poster separtely
and then composited it into the final scene. The
background of the final scene in terms of cityscape
was modelled and rendred in Bryce. The final composite
done in Photoshop. |
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Beam
me up scotty! |
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