The Secret Garden - Challenge 2016

Hello everyone! In this post I expose my concept about the challenge in progress. The initial idea is inspired by the words of an Italian song called “Cinghiali incazzati” (“Angry Boards”) by Ex-Otago. My intention is to visually represent a verse of the song through a composition. The song is about the different personalities that live inside men, similar and simultaneously opposing personalities. The composition that follows focuses on a specific verse of the song: "I'm a forest in the city center”. The first phase of work has focused on finding the references. The final reference chosen is an abandoned power plant in Monceau, Belgium. On the basis of this reference I have developed my final composition. The "secret garden" is born inside a building of rough and cold concrete, a "panoticon", set in the city center. The city is at a higher level than the forest. Symbolically the representation expresses the advance of human evolution at the expense of nature, creation of cities and destruction of trees. In the final image I tried to represent an utopian world where men, concerned about the extinction of the green, built artificial incubators where to cultivate plantations as an effort to safeguard the planet's natural wealth. I attached the wip of the project and the final image. The geometry of the model is based on the symmetrical elements. The circular panopticon with the forest in the middle. The foreground is decorated with useful elements to keep the vegetation alive. In the WIP is attached the raw render of the textured model and some details of dirt and scratches to add imperfections to the elements of the scene. The model was created entirely with Cinema 4D and rendered with Vray for C4D. The forest was created with the Evermotion models - Archmodels vol. 100. The software used for final post production is Adobe Photoshop. Thanks for your interest and good luck to all! Gianni

Posted on 16.01.2017

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