In Horoma's Head 11
Hi everyone,
November went by quickly - as usual I guess in this time of the year - and here we are entering the last month of the year.
Some updates of what I've been up to
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The world of Youtube 🎵🔈🧠
This month I got a bit lost in my recording schedule so I ended up posting 2 teardowns and one "small theme"
First teardown was of a school project I worked on in Canada, in two phases, that was a lot of fun. Final images were pretty nice, but as usual it can be improved so in the video I dive into the process, business relationship, and how to make these images better overall.
Second teardown was for a very cool project in France that I can't wait to revisit to make more images of. It was a complex mixing a market hall, a kindergarden and a social care center. The project had a very iconic and local architecture that I digged and the final images were driven by strong architectural concepts that needed to be made as clear as possible. In the video I talk a lot about the client's input on the creative direction and how the images evolved over the project.
In the last video I give some pointers on what is the real difference between a good and a bad rendering. The idea is to focus on the three pillars that make good images. One of them is pretty straightforward, and I think 80% of the artists unfortunately stop there. The 2 remaining pillars are what will make you grow as an artist and help you differentiate yourself from the crowd.
The world of wallpaper 🖌🖌🖌
I recently stumbled upon the mathematical theory underlying how wallpaper patterns are done. Because, yes, there is one, and a fun one at that!
If you want to find out more about the geometrical concepts, just go here.
If you're more of a visual person and don't care about equations and the likes, here is a fun app that let you choose the type of group you want to draw with and ... draw. This leads to very intuitive and nice patterns and opens the door to more advanced tiling principles.
The world of skiing 🎥📹🎦
Recently a video was released showing incredible sceneries and ski tricks by no less than Markus Eder. The videography and choreography is amazing and you can check it out there.
There's also a behind the scene video available on RedBull website (link in the description).
The video gave me plenty of references I can use for atmopsheres and framing and will motivate me, I hope, to work on this "nature" series I've had in mind for quite a while. We'll see 😁
Personal projects have always been a huge part of my journey to improve and clarify ideas around all the archviz concepts I was interested in. Lately I unfortunately had quite a bit of work to the point where pushing a Youtube channel, a new course, and client work has lead me to give up on those little personal experimentations.
I'm hoping to remedy this next year by reshuffling a bit my time allocation, but in the meantime there is one little challenge that I'll do my best to participate in : the latest D2's challenge done with the guys from Bricks, with a great subject - a bridge desinged by the late Zaha Hadid.
You can find more information here : https://vienna.d2conferences.com/d2challenge/the-bridge/
Deadline is next Monday, so I'll try to free up my Saturday to come up with an idea that motivates me and put together a decent image for that. I remember enjoying a lot the process of the one I did for Hugh Ferriss some months ago, and am definitely looking forward working on this little one.
Good luck to the ones that intend to participate 😉
The world of animes 🎙🖥💻🖼🎢
I recently finished rewatching my favourite anime back when I was a kid : Yu Yu Hakusho.
It's fun to see that it now has a live adaptation (or will have one soon I don't remember). I'm pretty sure I won't watch it since I don't like the overall principle of milking a cow too much by adding virutally zero value to the overall existing franchise. But who knows, maybe it'll be good.
Either way, if you're looking for a nice, simple and well designed anime to relax in front of, Yu Yu Hakusho is a good pick in my opinion.
Next on the list are Banana Fish and Cowboy Bebop that I need to rewatch (which ALSO has a live adaptation now...).
Time to wrap up!
And now it's time to record the last videos of the year, do some accounting and getting ready for the last few upcoming deadlines I have.
I hope you'll enjoy some of (or all!) the content I shared here and would love to hear back from you if you ever want to further the conversation on one of the topic, feel free to reach out to me!
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Thank you
All the best for the upcoming month!
Cheers
Simon