Friday, March 6, 2015

Architectural Representation Studio Project — Rendering Lego Blocks

Requirements

Working with 16 blocks, we were to produce 1 isometric catalog, and multiple images of perspective drawings showing how are the pieces put together.

Overview

My core ambition is to pursue the “realistic” effect during the digital rendering stage. I decided to take this approach ever since I realized that we are to render our assembly drawings in perspective. To me personally, perspective drawings just call for this sense of realism; hence instead of photoshopping texture and colour onto my line works, I chose to use Vray, as it allows me the freedom to play with the shadows, refraction of the translucent blocks, and to really capture the highly reflective texture of my Lego pieces. 

Drawings

Zhang Yun 11 IsometricCatalogue
This is my isometric catalog, pretty generic, nothing quite exiting about it, one thing noteworthy is that I tweaked the scale to fit all of my 16 pieces onto one page, my instructor was very kind to give me a green light on this.
WithoutBlackBoarder
My supplementary catalog, this image was inspired by a drawing made by Vincenzo Scamozzi, in which he very interestingly decided to show the poche diagram, section cuts and isometric representation simultaneously.
Zhang Yun 12 PerspectiveAssemblyStep1 2
Zhang Yun 13 PerspectiveAssembyStep3 4
Zhang Yun 14 PerspectiveAssemblyStep5 6
Step7 8 01
These are my perspective assembly drawings. It is quite obvious that the camera panning is quite significant from image to image, but it is due to me putting emphasis on the circular knobs. Further more, I used arrowhead lines to demonstrate how each new piece is added into the existing ensemble.
Zhang Yun 16 ExplodedAxonometric
To add even more to the visual variety, I decided to include an exploded axonometric drawing.
IBM018
IBM019
IBM020
IBM021
IBM022
These are my line works done using the overdrafting technique.

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Fine liners on Moleskine notebook

I haven't been really appreciative to the awesomeness of fine liners, literally until I started using them extensively for my architecture school projects.

The followings are some of my recent drawings, all done with my Rotring fine liners. 
My collection of fine liners 

Quick drawing of Michael Coleone

Storyboard for my building analysis video

Random comic-ish drawings

Monday, October 20, 2014

Mini review of the movie Fury (2014) final verdict: B-

Wardaddy (played by Brad Pitt) fine liners on sketchbook

General Feeling

Another excellent movie that reveals the brutality of wars. The film as a whole reminds me of the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. (1998) Really, there's nothing glorious about wars whatsoever. 

Performances

The leading casts all gave great performances in this film. Brad Pitt portrayed yet another terrific "Nazi killer," who is more probable, more realistic than lieutenant Aldo Raine from Inglorious Bastards. (2009) Shia Lebeouf is also good, glad to see he's made a comeback from all the Michael Bay, transformer negativities. Other than these two, the young Logan Lerman, Shane from The Walking Dead, and Michael Peña were also great. 

Final Verdict

To me personally, the strongest component of Fury is the acting. The cinematography, the sound effects, and the scores were satisfying, where as I feel the pacing and the plots could have been delivered much better to make it more entertaining, while still retaining its dark, gloomy vibe. For this I'm going to give Fury a 7 out of 10.