The Journey Begins Challenge (3D) Entry: Jon Berry

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Latest Update: Modeling: Surviving the Night

I didnt want to submit anything till I was happy with the drawing, but I thought I should get my idea out there.

Doesnt make much sense yet but hopefully it will when I tidy it all up.

Slightly changed the setting. I am going to do a quick version in 3D next so I can visualise the scene better. Then possibly redraw it.

New idea. The brief says that the emotion of the scene should be paramount. I decided that portraying an emotion in a landscape journey isnt as easy as I first though.

So I got thinking about other journeys, ones that arnt so obvious. At the moment my favourite is a kid whos just been put to bed by his mum scared of surviving the night. The journey of a nightmare and how long the night seems when you are afriad.

So I came up with the idea of a mum just closing the door and behind the kid 'nightmare world'.. definatly needs more thought :)

What do you think ? The door at the far side of the world is the morning with a small shine of sunlight.

I think its a good ide. you shod try and make a backgrund es scary es posibel. but stil ceep the foceus on the boy.

go for it.

Thats it though isnt it, whats scarey Maybe a crowd of faceless people just standing around him. Need to think about it.

Have to start somewhere. Started to model the door and hallway.

Ive started to model the mother closing the door. A few hours on her head, making her look old but not melting is quite hard :) hehe

Little update, trying to get a warm friendly face.

Nice mondeling, and good luck!

Just a quick render to see how the head works in the environment. Im liking it, I like how the shadows work across the face.

yup yup,

Hi there, this can end up very nice, really.
Being that said, it might not really be a "journey begins", but more a "morning not arriving as fast as needed" or, a "frightening night start". BUT I'm pretty sure this can be a really nice image.
I see it in 3 main colors, one for the mother scene, one for the night, and another for the morning light. It will be nice !

Keep it up

A small update, im blocking in the mother at the door.

I have started to model the bed and duva, blocking in the basic shape.