So here is my work in progress for the Blender World Cup. My piece is called “Civilian Monolith Encounter”. Since the topic of this challenge is about a very special moment in time, I wanted to incorporate something that represents a vastly important turning point. And what better way to illustrate this point in time with the Monolith from “2001: A space odyssey”.
Instead of discovering the monolith on the Moon or on Jupiter, I decided to play on the plot a little and place the monolith on a highway overpass (in the not to far future?). I began creating concept sketches of what I wanted to include in the scene.
So I decided to include a rather large truck in the scene with the truck driver getting out of his vehicle to inspect the object. Here is a loose detailed view of the front profile of the truck
This is a more detailed concept sketch of the scene layout and the drivers profiles. And at the bottom, there is a quick thumbnail of what I want to go in the background
And this last concept sketch is further detail into the background. Super large overpass structures are going to play a key roll in this image in the scene that it will be “focusing” the viewers attention to the materials in the foreground via straight lines.
Excellent so far!
It looks like you don’t fear high poly counts…
If you get a chance to read the book by the co-Screenwriter, I think his name is Clarke
if i remember well, it is much more self explanatory than the movie.
very very very nice modelling so far. Nice concept.
btw, 2001 was written by Arthur C. Clarke. And adapted into film by Kubrick who modified a few things in the story. But the original is mostly Clarke with some suggestion by Kubrick. after the movie, Clarke went on and wrote different novels which follows the movie (2010, 2061 and 3001).
oh and the point was simple…we, mere, human, will always face things we don’t fully comprehend. The block itself is a monolith created by some higher species which are unknown and who gave themselves the mission of helping intelligent life evolve into greater being. We human, are part of that experiment (hence the man-ape at the beginning of the story, slowly learning new tricks from the monolith). The different books also goes so far as to say, no one is perfect and will ever be, even the higher intelligence who ‘helped’ us…because they definitly fucked up somewhere looking at what we are as an ‘intelligent’ specie.
So now I have roadwork progress to share:
The image below is of the starting road segment before I go off and replicate things. (the building block)
This image is of the road (asphalt portion) where the paint and light reflectors sit. As you notice it is currently completely flat
Now using a handy road construction technique, Lattice! to bend the components into the desired shapes.
And here is the more final result of the main road component with the Lattice in action. This is the mock up position of where the camera is going to sit in the final result.
awesome, did you use arrays with 2-rail sweep for the road? the driver is pretty cool but his elbows look like drinking straws and his arms may be a little short. you appear to work really really really (really) fast… I’m astounded.
