More visual fictions.

My visual fictions piece is coming along reasonably. I've decided what disaster(s) will be occurring in the background: gargantuan hands. Hands of different "gods", if you will, crashing down on the earth, destroying the landscape or creating something new.

The foreground will be made up of humans and animals. The humans will have their backs to the "camera" or audience, watching these events take place, seemingly nonplussed. The animals of the foreground will be facing the audience, frightened or alarmed (perhaps they are the sensible ones).



(Surreal Scene by Reyes Designs on DeviantArt)

This image has a very nice mood to it. It is lit with rich yellows and purples and contrasted heavily - but not damagingly so. In terms of composition, the moon is amazingly large which almost makes me want to portray the moon falling in my brief (though I might restrain myself on that) and the Eiffel Tower sprouting out of the clouds is quite a nice touch.

Mostly I just enjoy the feel and atmosphere of this image and would like to give my Visual Fictions piece a distinct mood to it to keep it from being bland. I am thinking overlays of light and dark "blotch" layers might achieve this. I shall have to do some experimentation.

I have been using the 3-dimensional sculpting and painting program ZBrush (http://www.pixologic.com/home.php) to pick holes, cavities and create icy and firy materials for my god-like hands in my brief:




This allows me to get the exact style I want for these devastating limbs without having to rely on somebody else's photographs and textures.

I will be further manipulating these renders in photoshop and seamlessly compositing them in the background.