Sunday, 11 August 2013

Contextualising 3D Models - Rhythm

I am now at the point where I need to get my 3D model, find an interesting angle that I would like to work with and then export it as a 2D graphic into Adobe Photoshop in order to begin contextualising it and adding entourage.

The following is the progression of contextualising and adding entourage to my final Rhythm 3D model:



So for my idea for contextualising my rhythm model I felt that it would be interesting that due to the fact that it looks like a spiralling tower, what would it look like if it were added to an image of ground zero (9.11 terrorist attacks). It would create a strong contrast if everything around my model was rubble yet my two towers stood strong - as a symbolic idea that even when faced with a terrible event like September 11, we as a society will recover and become stronger.
The next step I did was duplicating the image of ground and overlaying them to make the colours a lot more vivid. I have used a purple cloud brush (due to the faint purple tones I picked up in the sky background) and applied it with a low opacity and flow to change the atmosphere within the image.  
The next step was to import my 2D graphic of my 3D model.
After this, I then created a layer mask in which I made it look as though my towers were in the background behind the rubbled building in the mid-ground.
The next step was creating a overlaid gradient with a soft-light blending mode in order to change the lighting within the image.  To emphasise where the light is coming from in the image - from the upper left-hand side of the image. By doing so, it also makes the shadows on my model more believable. 
I then created a purple coloured mask over the whole image and then changed the blending mode to saturate with an opacity of 100% in order to again, to try and help tie all of the colours on the page together to make it more believable that all of the elements on the page are all part of the same image.
Finally I have added one more layer of clouds with a purple tone to try and create an eeriness within the image.

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