Digital Creation, Project One, Blog Five

After not being completely sold on my last texture, I looked for a darker predator skin and found this texture of snake skin...

Snake Skin Texture

I think this texture better suits my models and I may continue to use it. I have applied it to the iterations in the image below.

For these iterations in the image above I have looked at having my predator rising up and increasing in size and wing span to cover a greater area to show it looming over a greater amount of space. I used mainly stretch and bend to achieve this as well as push to break it apart and look more slender and shadow/ghostly like to underline the idea of looming.

After creating these I got to about 40 iterations so I decided to compose these and take a rendered image.

Here is my first composition...

First Composition

For this composition I wanted to have my iterations appearing from a central spot showing there development as they loom away. I decided to have a white floor and wall to make the predators seem like shadows as shadows are often associated with looming, also I like the idea of creating confusion between what is a shadow and what isn't to enforce the idea of a predator looming, as with my precedent image of the shark you just see a silhouette in the distance. 

Precedent Image

I think that in this image the lighting is far too bright I would like to try having it very dark with maybe just a spot light running through the middle, I think this will better bring across the idea of looming. The lighting also made my iterations at the back look grey which I don't like.

After doing that I went back to creating more iterations. I decided to bring the size back down from my previous iterations as I think I have now covered that scale enough. So I used modifiers like twist and removed the stretch modifiers to get smaller looming predators. I also used melt to melt them into the ground a bit to go with my narrative as with my previous iterations they had been looming out into space, now I am taking them back down to loom against the walls as almost shadows.

I am now at about 50 iterations.