Cost
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Brief:
An illustration for a cover of a study done on
the cost of conflict between India and
Pakistan. The client wanted the essense of the
report to be conveyed by the cover of the report
itself.
The report, dased on detailed research, essentially
pointed out how mutually destructive any form
of conflict would be. |
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Inspiration:
Escher's
hands. This famous etching, and a personal favourite
of mine, portrays the creative potential of two
entities to raise beyond their dimensional limitations
by mutual creative co-operation.
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Hands |
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Water
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Creative
Strategy:
The situation of the longstanding mutual animosity
between the two nations seemed to portray exactly
the opposite of what Escher had depicted. I therefore
decided to put erasers in the two hands, as against
pencils.
Thus hi-lighting the mutual destructiveness of
the whole process. I decided to keep the pencils
nearby, in case the two sides decided to eschew
mutual erasure and instead worked on completing
and complementing each other's potential. |
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Execution:
So as to make this illustration stand out
on its own as against the very recognizable as
also very famous rendition of Escher, I decided
to make it as realistic as I could and also do
it in 3D (there's always a challenge in depicting
Escher's 2D etchings in 3D, and a challenge I've
been wanting to take up for a very long time).
Modelling aside the whole image was done in Bryce,
with multiple renders in different textures. The
final image was composited in Photoshop with the
pencil drawings and eraser marks being added in,
in Photoshop.
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Beam
me up Scotty! |
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