Minor Project Interim Crit Presentation

Michael Holman
michael-holman.blogspot.co.uk

Project Proposal
Project Type: Digital Set Area of Study: Digital Set, Modelling, Lighting, Texturing Final Outcome: Fully modelled, textured and lit digital set for a video game

Idea
The idea for my minor project is to create a digital set for a video game based upon The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali. The painting is Dalis re-creation of his famous The Persistence of Memory (1931)

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (Oil on Canvas, 1954) by Salvador Dali

Background
The painting was Dali's response to the 1945 atomic bomb explosions, which became a topic of interest to him in the years following the event. He based The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory painting off of the notion that matter was made up of atoms that did not touch one another and thus the imagery in the painting is not only distorted but fragmented also, looking like a series of floating platforms.

Game Mechanics
In the sense of the games direction and how it would play out, I have decided to play off of the idea of a world that has succumbed to Dalis visual interpretations of physics and reality, a world that is both surreal and fragmented, and translate that into an environment where the player is needed to restore the world to its original state. The game will centre around 'distortions', anomalies that cause a certain area and everything in it to breakdown and fragment, creating obstacles that the player must overcome. In order to progress through the game the player will have access to certain tools and abilities that will allow them to combat and manipulate the environment. However, in order to prevent the player from progressing to the later stages of the game too early, these tools and abilities will be unlocked through progression in the game.

Influences

Initial Thumbnails

Further Influences

Las Pozas
Las Pozas ("the Pools") was created by poet Edward James, in a subtropical rainforest in the mountains of Mexico. It includes more than 80 acres of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering Surrealist sculptures in concrete.

Structure Thumbnails

Speed Paintings

What Comes Next

- Final refined layout

-Resolved/refined Concepts
- Establishing shots/Animatic - Modelling