3D and lens

For this task, we were asked to produce a 3D illustration that shows a superpower or mutation that we wish we could have. For mine, I chose to be able to breathe and live underwater.

Some of the elements of this were quite straight forward, for example the watery background. For that I just painted some big pieces of paper an uneven blue. I really wanted to make it look like there were some fish swimming about so I spent a long time looking through shops for fake toy fish but I couldn't find any so I had to resort to printing and cutting out images of fish and hanging them up with string.

I really wanted to play with lens in this illustration and to do this I thought I could fill a clear contained up with soapy water and use a gopro to take a photo through this to give a watery, fluid feel to the photo, however this didn't work out very successfully.



After I had set everything up, I tried to take some photos but the lighting wasn't right and all the photos I took turned out quite yellow, so I also needed to adjust the lights.



Once this was sorted, I tried out a variety of angles and poses.




This was the final image that I was most happy with. Overall, I'm fairly happy with this image. I think the colours work quite well together, and the idea behind the illustration is quite clear. However, I think maybe I could have experimented further with composition, perhaps making it less obvious what the idea behind the image was but making a more visually interesting piece. 3D and lens is definitely a medium I would like to explore further though because it has a very different feel to it than other illustrations.