3D design - project 3

This is the second project from my 3D design class. Unlike what I originally thought, the course had nothing to do with 3D rendering, or anything related to computers. It actually turned out to be much more fun than that.

My professor was a 3D designer who worked mainly for museums, doing displays. She'd come up with how to set up the displays, how to upholster them, etc. Because of all the different places she's worked, she had a lot of useful hints to share (and a lot of funny stories!)

In this project we had to pick two things: an exisiting building (more specifically a large space in a building) and an artist.

We then had to come up with a display to put into that chosen space, which was inspired by the artist we chose.

The most fun we had with this project was the Saturday after she handed out the assignment - our professor offered to take us on a "field trip" of sorts downtown to actually stand in some of the suggested spaces and take pictures so we had a better idea of (thinking like professionals who would ACTUALLY be making these displays) the buildings themselves and what sort of grandiose things we could do with them.

Only three of us ended up going - but it was a BLAST.

Heidi (professor) took us to the business district in downtown Toronto. We spent an hour staring at the BCE building's skylight walkway, stared through windows at one building that was built on a perfect grid, and admired the gold in the RBC building's windows.

Then she took us to Queen street, where all the shops are, and showed us her favorite... COUNTRY BAR.

Cameron house is officially my favorite place to go: it's just a seedy little place that can barely fit 40 people, and the owners play in the band on Saturday nights. So Heidi took all of us in for a few rounds of country music and bought each of us a drink of our choice.

But after all the fun and games were over, it was actually a LOT harder a project than it sounded.

For starters, the artist I chose does a LOT of VERY detailed and VERY stylized watercolor paintings and concept art. Secondly, the space I chose was the BCE building walkway - which is EXTREMELY high-ceilinged.

However, in the end I succeeded.

My project was the simplest one in the class, but I KNOW I nailed it.

If you click on the image and make it bigger you should be JUST able to make out the words in the descriptive paragraph - if not, you can at least see the inspirational image.