Well I haven't exactly decided what I want to do for my final project yet, but I think I'm going to take a stock picture of either a valley or old Japanese town and make it into a night scene. I was browsing through photoshop tutorials on psd.tutsplus.com and came across this tutorial, which gave me the idea. I think I'm going to continue my themes from the midterm and use solitude and fantasy as my big idea. I either want to make a scene like the tutorial and add a geisha and make a very serene night scene, or make a night time valley scene and add a castle and stuff. I want to add lots of colors to make it more fantasy like. Sort of like this image. I would say that image is part of my inspiration. I was also inspired by that new CG disney castle opening. I really like the lighting and the scene they created with the train and the lights from towns in the distance. I'm considering adding fireworks to my scene and just going with a fantasy big idea. I'll probably just play around with my final piece and see what works like usual.
I'm not sure if I answered all the questions for this blog or not. I'll just list them out.
1a. My big idea will be fantasy (maybe solitude/imagination?). A lot of the times I sort of decide along the way after I see what sort of scene works out well. With the midterm I had no idea what the scene would look like until I actually started piecing the mountains together. When a scene starts working out I like to come up with a story in my head of what it's about and my big idea sort of comes through then. Although we're supposed to know what it is now, so I'm going to go with fantasy for the moment.
1b. This seem more like a retrospective question... I dunno how it's going to communicate my meaning exactly until it comes together a bit. I need more time to play around before I can explain that sort of stuff. What I have in my head now is to do a night scene like the tut, but I want to add lots of pretty colors like the "night sky" image I posted above. Maybe I'll add two moons to the sky. Fantasy scenes always have two moons for some reason. Fireworks would be cool too cause they are lots of pretty colors.
1c. Uhhh... it will be used for my enjoyment I guess? Maybe I could make it into a wallpaper? I really just want to try my hand at doing something different than I'm used to in photoshop.
2. My influences/inspirations for this piece: the photoshop tutorial I posted earlier, the "night sky" image on deviantart, and the cg disney opening. Plus Edward Hopper if I decide to include some sort of solitary mood.
3. One new technique that I will use? Um well, they used a vanishing point filter in the tut, and I've never used that before, so maybe I'll use that? I haven't made very many scenery pictures using stock imagery other than my midterm so that's new.
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