PHOTO

This photograph of the physical print is depicting the craft entering the earth's atmosphere, similar shot to certain scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

RENDER

Rendered out image. It shows the ailen crafts at the moment of landing on earth and metamorphing into pyramids to desguise themselves. In thousands of years to come they will have no evidence of where they came from or what they are and humanity will assume that they were created by us, much like the ancient pyramids in Egypt.

Rendered out image. It shows the ailen crafts at the moment of landing on earth and metamorphing into pyramids to desguise themselves.

Experimenting with adding the photoshop textures and bump maps, materials etc...

I found an egyptian prymamid texture online and altered the colours to give an ancient artifact rough stone look.

I experimented with adding a background in the environment with a matte shadow plane. This turned out quite well, but now  I have to find an appropreate material and a background that fits better.

I picked out the 3 best ones and created a backdrop with a bitmap background. It didn't have the desired effect and looked warped and unrealisic.

Alterations

I went onto 3DS Max and made multiple alterations to my solidworks model with different modfiers.

Further developent into design

I proceded to experiment and bring my design further forward by creating a shell on one of the blank faces to create a reverse asthetic of the exterior.

 I shelled out the other two faces to create a complex/optical illusion (second image) and a simple shell on the last face. This makes a nice transition between the three faces: extreme shell, moderate shell, and simple/basic shell. This also created a hollowed out interrior of each of the other 3 faces (the extruded ones) with the same jagged steps; you can see what I'm talking about by looking at the inside of the first shell.

All faces extruded by the measurements in the post below

All faces extruded by measurements below.

I then tried simplifying the design by keeping 3 of the faces blank for further experimentation.

Sketch and mesurements

I sketched up what dimentions each of the faces should be extruded from a cube to form a pyramid like shape. I worked out that each step should be extruded by 3mm and incremented by 1.5mm.

Proposal

My concept is to show ailen crafts coming to earth and taking form as pyramids which will become unknown artifacts in thousands of years to come. It's a play one the fact that we don't actually know where or how the egyptian pyramids were created/came about. The design of the crafts were inspired by aspects of M.C. Escher's illusion art and the egyptian pyramids. The overall concept is losely based around the extremely influencial science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by by Stanley Kubric.

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