Tutorials in the Unit Space:
10.00 Sho
10.30 Magnus
11.00 Suyi
11.30 Terence
12.00 Ling
12.30 Rula
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2.00 Nicole
2.30 Patricia
3.00 Christina
3.30 Leni
End-of-Year Jury at 32 Second Floor Back.
Presentation order as per list below. Please arrive (ALL students) at 9.30am and start pinning-up / bringing your models / preparing the room etc and please help your colleagues as well!
10.00 Leni
10.30 Rula
11.00 Patricia
11.30 Nicole
12.00 Christina
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2.00 Suyi
2.30 Terence
3.00 Ling
3.30 Sho
4.00 Magnus
Good luck!
Pair tutorials at NaJa & deOstos studio, 37 Great Russell Street, Suite 8.
11.00 Christina + Sho
12.00 Leni + Ling
1.00 Patricia + Magnus
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3.00 Terence + Nicole
4.00 Suyi + Rula
Tutorials in the unit space:
10.00 Nicole
10.30 Terence
11.00 Leni
11.30 Sho
12.00 Patricia
12.30 Rula
—–
2.00 Magnus
2.30 Ling
3.00 Christina
3.30 Suyi
Tutorials in the unit space:
10.00 Sho
10.30 Magnus
11.00 Suyi
11.30 Nicole
12.00 Christina
12.30 Rula
—–
2.00 Terence
2.30 Ling
3.00 Patricia
3.30 Leni
Tutorials in the unit space:
10.30 Sho
11.00 Magnus
11.30 Suyi
12.00 Nicole
12.30 Christina
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2.00 Rula
2.30 Terence
3.00 Ling
3.30 Patricia
4.00 Leni
Individual tutorials in the unit space:
10.00 Sho
10.30 Magnus
11.00 Suyi
11.30 Nicole
12.00 Christina
12.30 Rula
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2.00 Terence
2.30 Ling
3.00 Patricia
3.30 Leni
We will start the day with a portfolio show by RIBA Silver Medal 2009 winner Nicholas Szczepaniak at 10am in the Unit Space. Please be on time, otherwise you will miss a fantastic portfolio presentation of Nick’s diploma project A Defensive Architecture.
Followed by group tutorials. Please bring your work printed.
Kronus by MPC on Wrath of the Titans film
Kronus, the mythological Greek Titan, form was designed for the film ‘Wrath of the Titans’ by VFX company MPC (The Moving Picture Company) using several 3D iterations to catch the flavour of Zeus father. As described in the CGSociety website they used Zbrush sculpting software to developed Kronus concept design. As explained by Anders Langlands, MPC’s CG Supervisor: “We tried to keep that idea that there was a constantly moving molten lava layer shifting underneath his skin,”; “Then on top of that would be these black plates of rocks like tectonic plates shifting around on the earth.”
The impressive special effects make one think also about the post effects of Kronus as the volcano dries while the lava spilled ‘refill’ mineral resource in the new created/destroyed landscape. Analogically one is reminded by the tour de force book by British writer Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men where he investigated not Kronus and Gaia mythical genealogy of the past but the near and far future landscape transformations impulsed by the age of ‘men’. In three hundred pages Stapledon covers two billion years and the transformation of mankind in eighteen iterations. From ultra-industrialized cities, to proto-caveman futures and scattered hunter-gathering far future tribes the book describes the environment and its slow but brutal transformation during this period.
It would be interesting to imagine the crossbreed of myth tempestuous Kronus and the radical tales of near future sustainability. As, for example, lava not only destroys it ‘recreates’ depleted mineral resources through centuries of lava flow and sedimentation. As fictionally depicted by Stapledon the issue is not that humanity would not adapt to massive change, but instead the soul price paid for such adaptation. As people may adapt to live in prison, not every adaptation seems to be a bright bargain. In this scenario story telling becomes a crucial way to in-form our future steps. What could be our near future Kronus?
For the full CG article please check CGSociety website
Tutorials in the unit space:
10.00 Leni
10.30 Sho
11.00 Rula
11.30 Magnus
12.00 Terence
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1.30 Patricia
2.00 Nicole
2.30 Christina
3.00 Ling
3.30 Suyi
