Not sure if the title would be quite right but that should give an idea of what I’m going to try and make.
If you do a search on my previous models, you could see how newbish I am with Blender3D, But I’m still going to try my best to win in this contest since it would be the best way to motivate the hell out of my to learn enough to be able to get the 1st prize (I sure would like to have that creature factory DVD seeing how broke I am lol). I don’t have any good drawing skill yet so I can’t post a sketch of my scene up here But here is a good explanation of my concept. Any C&C is welcome.
The title is simply “A Daughter’s Tōrō nagashi”
[quote=Tōrō nagashi: (excerpt from wikipedia);]
Tōrō nagashi is a Japanese ceremony in which participants float paper lanterns (chōchin) down a river. This is primarily done on the last evening of the Buddhist Obon festival as a way to guide the spirits of the departed back to the other world.
The ceremony may be done on some other days of the year, for similar reasons, such as to commemorate those lost in the bombing of Hiroshima and those who died on Japan Airlines Flight 123; or in other areas of the world, such as Hawaii, to commemorate the end of World War II. Obon takes place on the thirteenth to sixteenth of August or July, depending on the calendar you go by. The white lanterns are for those who have died in the past year. Some Japanese believe that we come from water, so the lanterns represent our bodies returning to water (the sea).[/quote]
I figure that I could adapt this particular idea to show a daughter releasing a primitive floating lantern (a bark with some melted waxes poured on it to hold the candle and a picture of the mother) into a river.
If I do it good enough early enough, them I may expand the scene to include the husband, daughter, and brother in that picture attached to the floating lantern. I would also add the brother body so the view will be first-person view looking from the brother to the sister with his hand on her shoulder and her hand on top of his hand there.
the shore itself will be a slightly littered “nature”-type place similar to a park with many peoples using it. this usually result in some wears into the grounds and some litters like cigarette butt and candy wrappers and whatnot. I have a park nearby with it’s own lake so I could use that for references.
however when i did a image search on Japanese girl (for facial and proportion reference) I keeps getting too much nudes and nothing of what I needs so any tips on searching for the right references for modelling a Japanese girl?
I will try to start with the floating lantern itself soon then do a few of the tutorial from the “Introducing Character Animation with Blender” book I’ve recently purchased.
Sorry for not posting any renders yet but I’m posting this as a promise to follow through with this project as I have a habit to drop projects that nobody knows about.
P.S. there is no story about the mother passing or anything. the important thing in this concept is to show the daughter feeling for her mother.
turned out that I forgot to continue one of the edge on the nose before filling in the faces. now The face look better. Look at where the nose bridge is on the previous pic and this one and you should be able to see where I went wrong.
