A very unexpected piece of work our group created.
We were told create a piece a work - it could be absolutely anything at all as long as we worked with clay and other materials such as cardboard etc to create a 3D piece of work. I also think that the point of the exercise was to get us to think outside the box, also to get us to team build and to work in group to achieve a larger scale piece of work that combined everyones ideas.
After talking as a group we decided to do something fun, we decided on a Godzilla-like themed piece - but we had a monster-rabbit instead. We split into two groups - one would work on the city, background and other parts that would make up the set and the second group would make the giant rabbit.
As we had to make the rabbit so large it was quite challenging, after some trial and error we decided the best thing to do was to make a sort of clay shell and pack it full of newspaper so it wouldn't be so heavy and droop down. As the piece got bigger we needed to add some more support as it began to fall over and collapse - so we put a cardboard box in the middle of the shell/body to stop it from falling.
The head was hard to put on the body as it was quite heavy when it was placed on top - so we had to be very carefull when putting it on. Also instead of having the ears on top of the head we had them laying down (as if it was a lop eared rabbit) but then we tryed to put then at the back of the head on on the body so they would not fall off, which worked when we put wire in the ears to support it.
We had this problem with the front feet as well but again we put wire to in the feet so it clung onto the body a lot better. But to make the rabbit look more interactive with the set we placed one of the crumbling buildings that were made by the other team under the other other paw to make it look like as if it has just crushed the building.
This made the rabbit look a lot better rather than if was just on its own not interacting with the set.
To add the finishing touches to the rabbit we painted the eyes yellow with a black slit to make it look a bit more menacing - also to give the rabbit more texture we used the end of a wire to scratch a hair/fur into the body which made it look much better.
After we had finished the rabbit we started to compose our scene of the rabbit destroying the city. We placed the clay rabbit in the middle and placed the city around the rabbit. The first composition of the city wasn't as good as the final one - this is because the cardboard city didn't look like it had been devestated by a monster.
So as we began to add more detail we immediately saw a difference in how the whole piece looked - we added fire, some more models (tank and a helicopter) and some gravel to add texture.
As we finished putting the scene together, we started to look at how we would use lighting to add dramatic effect to the photos we would take. I found that I prefer the lighting that come concentrated from one particular part of the scene - it reminded me of how huge floodlights are used in the movies to light up a disaster at night. Also I thought that taking the picture from a low angle made the dinosaur-bunny look bigger and more intimidating.
We then took our photos to Photoshop and Illustrator - Since I am not that skillful on these computer programs I was a bit dubious about using it. But I learnt quite a few techniques such as cutting out images and other image manipulations.
We took some inspiration from older style/vintage Godzilla movie posters - and uses our photos to compose a disaster-movie poster featuring Frank-Zilla. I mainly used the Curves, Hue and Saturation and Exposure adjusments to create the colour effects on the poster.
Then to create more atmosphere for the poster I added a stormy background and played with curves more to create a negative and bright colour effect.
I thought our "Dino-bunny destroying a city" was a success that we all thought was fun to create.
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