The questions I used were:
1. What qualities of the work make you feel like it’s a success or a failure?
2. What can be improved?
3. Is it original and interesting?
4. Any other comments?
So I talked to at least 5 people about this, and everyone said the same things:
It’s a success because it’s a great design, it’s cool, it’s interesting, it’s original even though it’s based off another artists work, it’s really well thought out and laid out, and all the accents (color, texture, etc) work well together. However, I need to simplify it, it’s just a little to much to do in the time we have for production, but I need to simplify it in a way that it wont take away from the surreal decorative look that it has to it now. So Ryan Scott suggested that I need to decide what the end product is going to be (whether it’s gonna be just a picture, or an animation, etc). Once I figure out what the end product is going to be I can figure out how close I’m going to get to the house, so I can figure out how much detail I should include. Like, if you’re going to see it up close I should make everything perfect (bevel the edges, make everything really smooth, etc), but if it’s not going to be seen up close, I don’t need to worry about that.
So, I decided that my final piece would be a picture. I’m going to take my 3d house and put it in photoshop, mix it with a 2d background to make a finished piece. This way you won’t be up close to the house, so I can simplify it by not having to include those extreme details. So, right now I’m working on deciding what my final composition will look like, but I will have that completely decided by the time it gets to lighting the piece (week 4 of production).
5 week production schedule:
week 1: modeling
week 2: modeling
week 3: texturing- there aren’t too many textures so Im thinking the texturing is going to take less time than modeling
week 4: lighting- I only need it lit once and I only need to light whatever part I decide to use in the final composition so I’m only going to give that one week
week 5: finished piece- fully rendered composition.
Something like this is what I think of when Im thinking about my final composition, of course it will be a whole different composition, but it’s the idea of mixing 3D with 2D to make a finished piece…
