IDAT 201- simulacra continued

Part of our brief was to find an object and then think about how to explore its form and function through re-modelling using 3d max. I got thinking about what simulacra actually is; perhaps what I had in mind originally was to produce a more basic version of “walking with dinosaurs”, but instead of dinosaurs have something else as the focus of attention. Maybe have 3d cars or trains in the background, super imposed into real footage. Perhaps it could be quite dark to confuse the audience as to what was real and what wasn't...still this maybe didn’t quite fit the brief like I’d hope.

Some examples that have been mentioned in lectures or on the student portal include toy story...The way that some of the toy soldiers still have joined bits of plastic, this is un-necessary- but adds a certain reality to it... it’s a good example of an object that has been designed to look a certain way.

I thought about the idea of one object merging into another...in the film "terminator 2" the bad guy turns into liquid metal and then takes another shape, I think that this is one way to re-construct an object with 3D. Although this could look very conventional...

With technology today it changes and adapts to surprise us, so I would perhaps like the idea of something quite organic to be compared to that which is purely man made. Genetically modified food and experiments in science produce will change objects composition- the form, dimensions, tactility, weight etc.

The way that you peel a banana is familiar to everyone and they expect to see a banana inside when they peel back the skin. What if it was not banana inside, but instead something different.

Everything is not always as it seems and I want this to be the primary focus of this project...so taking the object (for example) of a banana, modelling this in 3d max and then recreating the object so that underneath the skin is something else completely different.

Id like the animation to look as if the banana is actually being peeled rather than merging into a different form, as it is more natural, all be it harder to make in 3d.


So the idea that everything is not as it first appears will be the basis for my simulacrum. However I may change between several different objects. During the animation.