SV Celeste: Short Film
This is a short film I have been working on with a mysterious abandoned spaceship based on the story of the Mary Celeste.
I find that the best way to improve skills is to work on a mix of short and long projects. I have let this project cook in the background over a long period, whilst I use other projects to learn and improve some areas I am missing the skills in.
The first step was to build the scene, I made a modular pack of switches, screens, seats and more. Then I set up the animations and lighting. I then did a course on cinematic lighting and that helped to take it to the next level of cinematography. The next step is to design a few more rooms and then design an updated space suit and drone design. These will then be rigged and animated into the scene.
project type / Personal Art Project
dates / 2023
art direction / alfie
creative work / alfie
Explorer Drone
There was a focus here to maximize the impact of the content whilst minimizing lift. Content is repurposed from R&D, the final content and some simple still renders and macro photos. This reduced the overall lift and meant that the post-launch support could continue for a few weeks with 2 posts a week.
Helmet Design
The first step in designing new objects that are realistic and believable is to gather good references. Fusing different concepts is a good way of generating new ideas. For this helmet, my goal was to start by trying to model a real helmet and modify small parts of it to make changes to fit the setting. The result of this is a new object that is very close to the source but noticeably different.
This model is differentiated from the source primarily through the materials chosen.