My inspiration for this project was my brother telling me to do something from our ancestral heritage, which is pretty eastern European. I think I'm 25% percent Swedish or something. My funky last name is Polish for "Cabbage farmer," so there's that. So, I thought I'd do a mishmash of all that junk. I'm really into ancient history, and really like old Anglo Saxon and Nordic art, what little exists of it. I thought it would be kind of cool to do a lamp / lightbox that tells something of a story, like how old art like the Bayeux Tapestry did. Since there were only four sides, I thought I could do something like a Life-to-Death kind of story.
My design was pretty simple, it depicts a young man leaving his home for the first time, him becoming a man and going to war, him as an old man returning home, and then finally, him passing away and being laid to rest in his tomb. I wanted it to look like he was traveling to the end, "from the womb to the tomb" as Joseph Campbell said in his book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces."
Transferring to Rhino was very easy. All I had to do was take my Raster drawings and wrestle with Illustrator until I had a nice Vector of the lineart. After that, I just had to import to Rhino.
Very, very simple. It came out better than I had hoped. There was minimal touching-up to do.
Creating the 3D model was a bit more tricky, however. It took a lot of fighting to get everything just right. There was a lot of Boolean Difference-ing, and I really struggled getting it to Extrude properly. I'd chalk that up to the design having too many details, I don't think Rhino appreciated it. However, the final product came out A-Okay, and then it was onto the renders.
I thought it'd be cool to cut out the sky for the light to get through, as well as their pupils. To keep with that nordic theming, I'm going for a dark brown stain, with the landscapes stained or rastered darker. I found a cool LED lightbulb at Home Depot which emulates a warm vintage look, and I'm hoping it'll look like candlelight, hopefully making this appear older.
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