Styles & genres
Non-commercial project. 2022-2023
This project was originally conceived as just one weekend render. The goal was to hone skills and put into practice fresh developments in lighting and materials. I took a pix of the Chrystie Street Hotel in New York as a reference and modeled the building.
Firstly, I worked out the atmosphere of the daytime shot. At that moment, I did not yet suspect that very soon my fantasy would be carried away.
The first idea was a noir shot. Images from the movies "Batman" and "Sin City" were spinning in my head. The main ideas of the style: pessimism, distrust, cynicism, danger, woman, hotel, water, night, shadow and the like. Classic noir is black and white film and high contrast. Desaturating the renders, I deliberately left the red channel saturated to emphasize the theme of anxiety and danger with this small detail.
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Cyberpunk films such as Blade Runner 2049, Tron and Ready Player One were the next source of inspiration. General ideas:
- global multicultural world;
- colossal inequality and the power of corporations: shining skyscrapers and an abundance of advertising hang over a faceless dark mass of people;
- luxury and high technology coexist with poverty and street crime;
- advanced bioengineering and robotics.
And of course, a lot of neon lights, signs and holograms.
- global multicultural world;
- colossal inequality and the power of corporations: shining skyscrapers and an abundance of advertising hang over a faceless dark mass of people;
- luxury and high technology coexist with poverty and street crime;
- advanced bioengineering and robotics.
And of course, a lot of neon lights, signs and holograms.
In the process, I was faced with the task of preparing of preparing an image library for advertising signs and holograms. Some I downloaded through image search, some I created using an online abstraction generator. I didn't want to use more complex art from other artists or photographers and decided to use the Midjourney neural network for the first time. In half an hour I got a very interesting and original result from her.
Finaly, I decided to return to reality and turned to the images of the city where the reference building is located - New York. Here I wanted to achieve a humid foggy atmosphere, as well as emphasize the work of reflections of car headlights in wet asphalt. I caught myself thinking that after noir and cyberpunk, this atmosphere does not look sad or gloomy. As for me, on the contrary, it exudes life and freshness.
I really wanted to create more genres. The idea was to create a steampunk atmosphere with steam engines, giant gears, clouds and copper pipes shining in the sun. At the stage of the idea, the post-apocalypse with a reference to the film "I am Legend" also remained. But it's time to do commercial projects and therefore, I said to myself stop.
Thanks to everyone who read to the end and liked.
I will be glad to read your feedback.
Leonid Gavrilyuk
2023
I will be glad to read your feedback.
Leonid Gavrilyuk
2023
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