Reason for this is anything within this period in Britain / London would be relevant material, and material we could consider for usage within our animation.
How do I feel at this point in time? Quite good? It's not everyday that you get to visit places like this. Although this was pretty much mandatory for research purposes, and there wasn't that much material available, I did quite enjoy the whole process, and the facts. I've personally done quite a bit of research so far. The black death, the status of living conditions in that time, how the plague happened, etc. Heh. Moving on....
COINS! Purely because they look cool, but at this point I had an idea which I was going to integrate into the main one. Scattered coins along the floor. Why? Because people are going to start dying =[ They're going to lose their monies. xD
Decorative purposes. These are objects which would be put on certain houses. Why? Currently there's no real explanation except for purposes of fear. Well, for human heads anyway. There's also gargoyle heads and so forth usually put on church walls, as gargoyles are supposed to 'fend' off evil spirits. Apparently.. Makes no sense, but yeah.
This photo isn't actually of a door. It's more of a window, but you probably guessed that already anyway. Again, same as below, it was actually important to get information on what windows looked like back then. As I'm pretty sure that it's not going to be as modern as our windows are today. Quite to our surprise, our windows today aren't that much different. Just made better, and obviously using better materials.
More boxes. Mainly for the construction of the object and the textures.
Another chest from the 1350s. Again, just for decorative purposes. May serve as a future texture for furniture / similar. From what I can see, it's mainly the tint and quality of wood which seems to be quite common amongst all these woods. They're all stained.
This particular item caught my attention. Mainly because of the fact that the drawing on it were quite funny. How this would help with our project? Not much. We're not doing much of an interior, but in the sense of this stuff is within our era, it could be helpful for future designs.
Various patterns. These images were taken purely for decorative purposes. For example, textures and patterns on improvised object of which we may consider using.
I took photos of these purely because they were quite interesting. In terms of what purpose they could serve towards our final project, not too sure as of yet.
Miniature shrine - These things were apparently dangled from ceilings, or from a priests hand burning incense. As indicated by the description above, these objects tell the story of Christ's life from birth to death, while burning incense to acknowledge this. This was seen as a sign of appreciation in churches in England of the time. Not so much relevant as we will possible not see much of the inside of a building, but the design of the object could lead us to developing objects of the same style to use as decoration maybe? Nothing says gothic like this to be honest, which is ironic as it's about HESUUUS. (Jesus)
Just a close up inspection of the window frame below, just the see the detail of the wood which will help for texturing. The light also seems to be reflected quite a bit, indicating that this was coated in some sort of varnish. (Probably on the museums side.) Just nice to see something like this up in person, and in this much detail.
Another close up of the same sandstone wall. Just to see the texture of it in a closer more detailed view. As I said previously, this texture is perfect for the texture of the house walls.
So, to gather some REAL PRE-EXISTING-PRESERVED, we took a trip to the british museum, for inspiration, as well as some real ideas / materials / concepts we could use as a part of our idea.
Interesting information documented at the british museum. Unfortunately, aside from what we found, there wasn't that much there! One of our scouts (Oly) is going to steal information (gather) from the LONDON museum :D
We spent pretty much most of the day at these two places, we collaborated quite a few ideas with the new information gathered. Most of which will be conveyed next update with hopefully some actual concepts /storyboard of our actual idea.
Below are two very brief video analysis. One = talking about an image of housing, shapes, feel, the way it looks etc. And the other, talking about how people act and would need to carry their own cutlery and so forth.
Epic giant sword?No relevance what so ever.
Random guy whos not in our group + sarah :D Okay I'm joking, well, semi. We know who the guy is, he's just not a part of our group.
Geroomee - The nooby noob noob. He's good at input with certain ideas.
ME D: + Dom :D - THE LEADER. THE BOOS. THE BOOOOOSSSS. THE EPIC AWESOMENESS OF AWESOMENESS. Although I have no management skills. Why? Because I can't force people to work. I don't like doing it, I don't like making people feel uncomfortable :( Obviously that's going to have to change at somepoint.
Oh, and Dom is the sub-manager along with Lily. They're both noobs.
:D
Sarah :D - Also likes naughty anime ;D She's cool. And she likes coffee. She's not quite the gamer. She's the fanfiction lover amongst the group. Naughty fanfiction. xD
Lileh :D - The gamer addict. Give her a choice between 50K or playing Xbox for a day and she'll choose the Xbox, no doubt. M i rite? + she likes naughty anime ;D
MONIES! :O
COINS! Purely because they look cool, but at this point I had an idea which I was going to integrate into the main one. Scattered coins along the floor. Why? Because people are going to start dying =[ They're going to lose their monies. xD
Decorative purposes. These are objects which would be put on certain houses. Why? Currently there's no real explanation except for purposes of fear. Well, for human heads anyway. There's also gargoyle heads and so forth usually put on church walls, as gargoyles are supposed to 'fend' off evil spirits. Apparently.. Makes no sense, but yeah.
This photo isn't actually of a door. It's more of a window, but you probably guessed that already anyway. Again, same as below, it was actually important to get information on what windows looked like back then. As I'm pretty sure that it's not going to be as modern as our windows are today. Quite to our surprise, our windows today aren't that much different. Just made better, and obviously using better materials.
Door - One that could be easily replicated in terms of design / style. In my opinion it was important and both lucky of us to stumble upon this. Why? Doors have been around for a very long time, this gave us pretty much an exact idea of what doors around that period should look like. So for our project, doors similar to this in design (wood (looks like oak-ish) iron framing, should be something to heavily consider when texturing / modelling our doors.
Priests robe / cloak. Right. Since at this point we're still considering whether to have characters or not in our project, it was important to know what sort of clothing would be seen. We're not planning on having faces shown, just limbs and a bit of drapery here and there. Now, we all know what sort of clothes people wore back then, and generally what they looked like, but this pretty much confirms it all. Tons of folds, hanging down, with an intricate design.
More boxes. Mainly for the construction of the object and the textures.
Another chest from the 1350s. Again, just for decorative purposes. May serve as a future texture for furniture / similar. From what I can see, it's mainly the tint and quality of wood which seems to be quite common amongst all these woods. They're all stained.
This particular item caught my attention. Mainly because of the fact that the drawing on it were quite funny. How this would help with our project? Not much. We're not doing much of an interior, but in the sense of this stuff is within our era, it could be helpful for future designs.
Various patterns. These images were taken purely for decorative purposes. For example, textures and patterns on improvised object of which we may consider using.
I took photos of these purely because they were quite interesting. In terms of what purpose they could serve towards our final project, not too sure as of yet.
Another unusual object
^ As this image describes, (in direct reference to the image below) this bench end is also something intriguing. Not only is the style in terms of pattern recreated on many objects during that period, but it seems this recurring theme of a 'flower' seems to be engraved onto this as well.
Miniature shrine - These things were apparently dangled from ceilings, or from a priests hand burning incense. As indicated by the description above, these objects tell the story of Christ's life from birth to death, while burning incense to acknowledge this. This was seen as a sign of appreciation in churches in England of the time. Not so much relevant as we will possible not see much of the inside of a building, but the design of the object could lead us to developing objects of the same style to use as decoration maybe? Nothing says gothic like this to be honest, which is ironic as it's about HESUUUS. (Jesus)
Self explanatory. Same object, different camera views. Purpose? To see it in a 3 dimensional form, to see how the shapes fit together! This one isn't fit for a great lighting demonstration, as the lighting is coming from a weird angle both below and above, where the lower light is the strongest.
Building top! - This is a miniature model of the top half of a cathedral in London, sat on what seems to be some sort of flat chalice. Purpose? No idea, the description didn't seem to reveal this information either. Anyway, it was nice to see something like this, especially as the window straight ahead of us is almost a direct copy of the window frame below. Aside from that, the tall angular shapes make this building as gothic as it's probably going to get.
Just a close up inspection of the window frame below, just the see the detail of the wood which will help for texturing. The light also seems to be reflected quite a bit, indicating that this was coated in some sort of varnish. (Probably on the museums side.) Just nice to see something like this up in person, and in this much detail.
Wooden window frame, could use this to base window patterns off. Everything in this blog thus far is within our era, for us to freely use. Angular pattern on what seems to be a mahogany window frame. Very old looking, would fit in perfectly in both a design as well as wood texture.
At the very least this could be used as a direct reference to create likely looking old London. :D
Priests clothing. At this stage we're not sure whether to integrate actual characters into our environment, but our initial idea consists of showing at least bits of clothing, and aside from that book that I looked at regarding the clothing, it was nice to see sculptures and actual remnants of clothing from that era. To be more specific, it could be described as drapery. Tons and tons of folds. Loose fabric, Celtic design +/- old.
Took this because everyone in that period was pretty much very religious, as well as the fact that the lighting on this particular photo comes from above which gives some pretty epic lighting. :D According to the description in the museum, this was actually displayed in some churches, however it's not something that's very common, and would probably not be relevant to us for our project.
Decorative objects on the wall - as the description below shows, this actually did exist, despite speculation of mythical influence. Besides the obvious fact of taking these for the way they look (heads attached to a block, attached to a wall) these particular decorations had light coming from above, which gives that dark, gothic like feel. I feel this is appropriate as the light coming from above can mimic our created 'sun', for our environment project.
Same as below. A close up of this image reveals that it is infact not a general human head, but it's actually deformed, which leads me to believed that they simply did not just get a chopped head and stick it on a pole. It's possible that the head was actually mutilated prior to being chopped off and put on a hole.
Theories confirmed! Infact, very rarely was there simply a chopped head on a pole without showing signs of bruising or anything else. Appearances of things like these slowly started to disappear throughout the 1400's though.
Apparently these sort of things were very common in terms of threats on posters, or just general heads on poles to show warnings as a sign of superiority. Poles on a head. Purpose? To warn people, usually done by authority to threaten people or make a mock of certain people for specific reasons. However fascinating, this most likely won't appear in our composition.
Tile pattern - This was also another decoration (wall decoration), Old, desaturated colour, on tiles, with a generic pattern, common in wallpaper actually. These aspects would contribute towards an overall 'gothic' atmosphere. Anyway, something that we could possibly use when considering the border patterns on walls.
Relate to description below - Decoration. Probably crowned the gable of a shrine, containing relics of a saint.
Just looking at the shapes, texture and structure of the object, as it's something we could take into decoration when it comes to placing decorations of our own, where need be.
Same as below.
Another close up of the same sandstone wall. Just to see the texture of it in a closer more detailed view. As I said previously, this texture is perfect for the texture of the house walls.
Brick wall texture - Walls existing at that point in time. This says nothing but OLD, FEEBLE, RUBBLE which looks like a solid hit would simply shatter this into pieces. Again, a lovely texture which would look nice on a brick wall in Olde London. Embosses clumps of sandstone
Interesting information documented at the british museum. Unfortunately, aside from what we found, there wasn't that much there! One of our scouts (Oly) is going to steal information (gather) from the LONDON museum :D
We spent pretty much most of the day at these two places, we collaborated quite a few ideas with the new information gathered. Most of which will be conveyed next update with hopefully some actual concepts /storyboard of our actual idea.
Below are two very brief video analysis. One = talking about an image of housing, shapes, feel, the way it looks etc. And the other, talking about how people act and would need to carry their own cutlery and so forth.
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