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Rendering at home test- Fixed!

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I though I'd test how well my laptop can render, and I think it did a good job. (Edit- It turns out the wrong video was uploaded and it was cut short, It should be ok now)

Glucose Golem - WIP

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First Character made. Needs to be rigged and skinned, but so far so good

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2001: A Space Odyssey, A review

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In Robert Ebert's review of this film, he says ' The film did not provide the clear narrative and easy entertainment cues the audience expected. The closing sequences, with the astronaut inexplicably finding himself in a bedroom somewhere beyond Jupiter, were baffling. The overnight Hollywood judgment was that Kubrick had become derailed, that in his obsession with effects and set pieces, he had failed to make a movie.' [Ebert 1997] The narrative flow within this film was almost non existent. From an audience perspective, it felt as if it was several different stories that had been stitched together. Kubrick was considered a great innovator in the film world, pushing the boundaries of what film could look like and how it can be made. However there is a point at which you are not making a commercially viable film anymore, and instead you are making something akin to a modern art piece. While this is the case, ' snippets of its minimalist dialogue ("Open the pod

Chloroplast as a place- Ideas

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After the pitch, I was told that I should think about redesigning one of my characters into a place because of the relation in size between molecules and cells. This also opened up an opportunity to show what the chloroplast looks like but not go into detail. I decided, after looking at electron micro graphs of chloroplasts, to make this new space into an island, as the cells look as if they are floating in water and it would make sense that a superhero team has an island base of operations. What I am trying to do with these drawings is create something that looks scifi and superhero themed, but also looks like a chloroplast from above. I have also tried to work in elements from the Glucose character, specifically the glowing orange/yellow pipes, so that the view can see both and see that they have a relation to one another. What I'm trying to do is make it look as if the sun's energy comes in at one pint and flows through these tubes to where it's needed, in the same was

A collection of drawings from last week

Pitch - Fantastic Voyage

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Fantastic Voyage Pitch by Ollie Thacker on Scribd