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Big Hero 6

Big hero 6 is a completely CGI 3D  animated film based on the obscure marvel comics film of the same name. the film is set in the futuristic san-fransokyo, and  revolves around the creation of the superhero team, named big hero 6.

the CG Animation is stunning. it combines good character models with brilliant lighting, amazing scenery, and an excellent soundtrack to make a compelling and visually stunning film.

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Redline

Redline is a 2009 hand drawn Japanese anime racing film. it uses traditional hand drawn animation and Its development took seven years and used 100,000 hand-made drawings. the art style is akin to similar anime titles but the sheer quality of the film can make you understand why the film took so long to produce and create.

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Isle Of Dogs

Isle of doge is a 2018 film with the plot involving all dogs in Japan being set away to a trash island after an outbreak of canine flu, and a boys journey to rescue his pet. 

the stop motion animation is on another level in this film. the level of detail is something else and the quality of the stop motion is outstanding. this film has won multiple awards and its not hard to see why.

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Michal Socha: Build Your Own Couch Gag

This Simpsons couch gag is very unique. It uses a very simplistic art style, with minimal colours to reflect the Ikea Manuals. the use of simplistic character models also reflect this style. The gag also implements a lot of comedy, rewarding long time Simpsons fans with Easter eggs and recognisable character traits, because if you know homer, you KNOW he would mess up the building and DEFINITLEY steal Flander’s couch.

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Unity: Tree Tutorial

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Colin Cantwell, original concepts for Star Wars examine:

cant well designed some of the original concept arts for the ships in Star Wars, including early concepts of the infamous X Wings. these works are modern clean and look futuristic. overall these designes have inspired many with the unique shape, and starters would not be the same without.

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H R Giger’s illustrations for the Alien ship from the first film - examine.

H=Gigers illustrations were originally not meant for film as they had controversial subject matters. Tiger was originally just a pinter but was approached about using his work as concept art for the Alien in Alien. however the work has had to be modified as the original contains mature themes.

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Brian Johnson working on the final Nostromo (Alien Models on set) - scale, colour, aged the paintwork (why)?

These phots os Johnson working on the ship of Alien show the scale of the ship and is photographed to give the ship a sense of reality. The colours used are more realistic and not very vibrant. The aged paint work makes the models look more real as the humans would find it easier to believe that something that is weathered is real. 

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Event Horizon film and the different style of Ship - Gothic inspired/contrast to steam punk.

Event Horizon look visually unique, colours stand out and make the ship look very modern which is a direct contrast the steam punk ships as these look old, antiquated and wooden. 

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Models made for Alien: relate to how you photographed your own, how is scale defined?

These models that were made for Alien were made on a small scale similar to what we produced. They used camera trickery and special effects to achieve the spaceship looking human sized. The scale is defined by features that humans can relate to such as doors and windows. 

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Ron Cobb: Concept art for Nostromo (Alien) drop ship - explain -

In the late seventies Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shusett asked Ron to create a series of small illustrations to help them pitch and sell their latest script. As a result rob soon found himself hidden away at Fox Studios in an old rehearsal hall above an even older sound stage with Chris Foss and O'Bannon, trying to visualize Alien. For up to five months Chris and rob (with Dan supervising) turned out a large amount of artwork, while the producers, Gordon Carroll, Walter Hill and David Giler, looked for a director.

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Fifth Element - models in film, explain:

5th Element uses practical models because of the time period as CGI animation wasn’t available or up to standard at that time, and having physical models made the film look more believable and realistic. 

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Fifth Element (Luck Besson film)

In the 23rd century, a New York City cabbie, Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), finds the fate of the world in his hands when Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) falls into his cab. As the embodiment of the fifth element, Leeloo needs to combine with the other four to keep the approaching Great Evil from destroying the world. 

The design of the spaceship is modern and futuristic, and also uses colour well. 

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Contrast to the materials you have access to: budget

This ship is more in keeping with the scale we are working to and therefore similar materials would be used, however, the difference becomes within budget whereas Kayte can afford to buy loads new materials and kits to kitbash from. We had to dumpster dive and use scrap materials within our project. 

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Scale: Impact on cost, materials...

Here we see Kayte working on a large scale. She is working on a desert camouflaged Bat-mobile, however, the large scale would have an extreme impact on costs, making it very expensive to produce and more materials would be used in order to achieve a final product. 

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Where does she work and with whom? 

Kayte works Tipit Studios and she works independently but also with Adam Savage from Mythbusters. 

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Ralph McQuarrie

Ralph McQuarrie’s process involves watercolor and pencil working directly onto MDMF which is a unique style to work in. He then paints all of the tonal values onto the MDF to gain a sense of depth and shadow. He then paints a sepia wash and from there builds up layers of colour using prismacolour pencils, and guwarge paint. 

I think his work is very inconoc as he single handledly designed some of the most important characters in sci-fi history, without him there would be no Star Wars.