Texture Tiles

Texture Tiles
  

Experimenting with textures and making them into tiles.

Grit Tiles & Their Alternate Colours

 

1 Tile

4 Tiles

Volcanic

 1 Tile

 4 Tiles

Chalky

 1 Tile
 

 4 Tiles

Sand Tiles & Their Alternate Colours

 1 Tile

4 Tiles

White

1 Tile

4 Tiles

Australian

1 Tile

4 Tiles

Metal Tiles & Their Alternate Colours

1 Tile

4 Tiles

Strange

1 Tile

4 Tiles

Brown Painted

1 Tile

4 Tiles

Flaked Metal & Their Alternate Colours

 

 1 Tile

4 Tiles

Green Painted

1 Tile

4 Tiles

Flaking Paint

1 Tile

4 Tiles

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I added a milk float in the background half behind a bush. I think its an unusual vehicle to be at a fuel station.  

Environment Research

Environment Research

I have chosen to have my scene located in Australia due to its vast open spaces and stories of people disappearing in the outback without a trace as quoted from Missingpersons.org 'It is hard to believe that in a well-developed and populated country like Australia about 35,000 people go missing every year . Among them, about 10000 go missing in New South Wales alone . In fact, in Australia the rate of missing persons is as high, or higher, than that of road traffic accident deaths, non-fatal road traffic accidents requiring hospitalization, and suicide.' (Putt, 2008) 

 Australian Outback Roads and Fuel Garages

Australian Fuel Pumps

The trucks used on the roads in Australia called road trains are a lot longer than those used any where else, hauling over three trailers and over 53 meters long.

Pirate's Cove

Pirate's Cove Treasure

Coins Design Close up

Review on Eraserhead

Review on Eraserhead 1976

Eraserhead

A very strange and unusual film with plenty of weird happenings, for example the part where Henry sits down with his girlfriend at her house with her mother for a chat, or uncomfortable empty conversation. The three of them just sit there in an awkward moment saying very little. Its almost as if its one of those moments where you are meeting the parents of your lover and you expect the worse to happen. Which in this situation it does, except it gets even weirder when Henry's girlfriend just freaks out time to time while at her house, crying and hiding in another room. The mother is just as unexplainable having some kind of fit at the diner table over a roast chicken moving its legs and oozing fluid. A 1977 review on Film4 explains. 'The film shifts the 'action' to an imposing industrial landscape through which Henry walks, tiny and alienated, on his way back to a dingy, cell-like apartment. The beautiful girl living next door (Roberts) informs Henry that Mary X (Stewart), his ex, has invited him to dinner at her parents' house. There, a grotesque meal of painfully awkward conversation, perverse psychosexual tension and animated 'manmade' chicken is interrupted by news from Mrs X (Bates) that Henry is father to Mary's premature baby.' (Film4, 1977) 

 Diner Scene

The film seems to revolve around their baby, if thats what you call it. A small deformed helpless creature wrapped up in bandages with its head poking through. There has always been a fear surrounding deformed babies. The thought of giving birth to an unhealthy and crippled child and its torture it must go through in life is painful for the parents to bare. Even though the baby in this film is very un-human like in appearance, the couple still accept it as their baby no questions asked. Until its annoying cries in the night drive the mother to leave the apartment and the baby to Henry's responsibility. A 2001 review by Almar Haflidason on BBC go into detail on this. 'So, Henry shacks up with the miserable wretch responsible for their truly repulsive pug of a baby. This slimy bleating trog soon starts to drive Henry's partner up the wall to the extent that she leaves him and her newborn. Poor old Henry is stuck with this nightmarish creature in a single room, with only a singing radiator for added company.' (Haflidason, 2001) Henry being left with this baby tries to look after it especially when it gets sick, but in the end he cuts of the bandages to reveal that he has just cut open the creature. He stabs at it to try and kill it only to see it go wild and elongate its neck and haunt him. Why did he want to kill it? Was it because he was ashamed to have this deformed baby or was he afraid of it and thats why it went mad at the end, the answer is unclear. This whole film gave the feeling of living in a post apocalyptic world where nuclear radiation leaks have flooded everywhere causing the inhabitants to act strange and give birth to highly deformed offspring. A review by Donald Levit on Real Talk movie reviews mentions this. 'Fans and favorable commentators find in this a howling black critique of the deracinated nuclear family and parental hatred spawned by a dehumanized industrial society.' (Levit, 2010)

The Baby

Illustrations

Figure 1. Lynch, David. (1976) Eraserhead [Screen Cap] At: http://www.impawards.com/1977/eraserhead.html (Accessed on: 20.12.10)
Figure 2. Lynch, David. (1976) Diner Scene [Screen Cap] At: http://c2o-library.net/2010/05/eraserhead/?lang=en (Accessed on: 20.12.10)
Figure 3. Lynch, David. (1976) The Baby [Screen Cap] At: http://www.genjipress.com/2009/06/eraserhead.html (Accessed on: 20.12.10)

Bibliography

Film4. (1977) Eraserhead. http://www.film4.com/reviews/1977/eraserhead (Accessed on: 20.12.10)
Haflidason, Almar. (2001) Eraserhead (1977). http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/01/16/eraserhead_1977_review.shtml (Accessed on: 20.12.10)
Levit, Donald. (2010) The Head Horror Picture Show. http://www.reeltalkreviews.com/browse/viewitem.asp?type=review&id=2019 (Accessed on: 20.12.10) 

Review on The Tenant

Review on The Tenant 1976

The Tenant

The director of this film, Roman Polanski plays a role in this film as the man who rents an apartment where all the neighbors are rude and obsessed with noise that he makes, even small noises like moving furniture about upset them. Polanski often looks out his window towards the bathroom where all he sees is a person just standing there doing nothing. Whether this is really happening or just what he can see as he starts to slowly feel paranoid staying in this apartment. Roger Ebert comments on this in a 1976 review on Chicago Sun-Times. 'Polanski gets the apartment. It's in a tall, gloomy building inhabited by hateful, spiteful people who are always spying on each other. And it has a haunted bathroom; every time Polanski looks in through the bathroom window (which he does quite frequently, come to think of it) there's someone standing there motionless, looking straight back at him.' (Ebert, 1976) There are a lot of strange and unexplained things going on in this film, for example the garbage on the stairs disappears without showing us what happened to it. There is a scene where Polanski reaches out while in bed for a drink only to find that the drink on the chair is a picture. A 1976 review on Film4 mentions this. 'Frustratingly, because so much of the film is so odd, little is ever explained. But the macabre tone and eerie appearance (thanks to Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer Sven Nykvist) mark it out as an intriguing depiction of mental breakdown built round a dark comic performance by the director himself.' (Film4, 1976)

 Cleared Garbage

Being a foreigner in France, Polanski who plays Trelkovsky tries to cover his Polish origin, but still feels paranoid and alone in France. The film gives the sense of feeling alone where no one will help you and everyone is your enemy. This film feels part of Polanski's Apartment anthology which includes Repulsion and Rosemary's baby. They all share the same theme of isolation and evil neighbors. This is mentioned by Kim Newman in a review on Empire. 'Based on a novel by Roland Topor (Renfield in Herzog’s Nosferatu), this seems almost an anthology of Roman Polanski’s favourite, oppressive themes – presenting a Paris apartment which is as threatening as the London digs of Repulsion, nasty neighbours who are as demonic as those in Rosemary’s Baby and identity-switch games as humiliating as Cul-de-Sac.' (Newman, 2010)

 Paranoia

List Of Illustrations

Figure 1. Polanski, Roman. (1967) The Tenant [Screen Cap] At: http://horrornews.net/11419/film-review-the-tenant-1976/tenant-poster-1/ (Accessed on: 18.12.10)
Figure 2. Polanski, Roman. (1967) Cleared Garbage [Screen Cap] At: http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Le_Locataire_rev.html (Accessed on: 18..12.10)
Figure 3. Polanski, Roman. (1967) Paranoia [Screen Cap] At: http://anotherfilmblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/the-tenant-roman-polanski-1976/ (Accessed on: 18.12.10)

Bibliography

Ebert, Roger. (1976) The Tenant. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19760927/REVIEWS/609270301 (Accessed on: 18.12.10)
Film4. (1976) Le Locataire. http://www.film4.com/reviews/1976/le-locataire (Accessed on: 18.12.10)
Newman, Kim. (2010) The Tenant (18) http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=134979 (Accessed on: 18.12.10)

     

Santa Hat

Santa Hat

Red Hat.

Green Hat.

Reindeer Hat.

Fur Renders

Fur Renders

100% Bear Preset with no shadows.

100% Bear Preset with shadows.

100% Bison Preset.

50% Bear & 50% Bison.

100% Porcupine Preset.

 100% Sheep Preset.

25% Bear, Bison Porcupine, Sheep.

100% Polar Bear Preset.

100% Polar Bear Preset 1.8 hair length.

100% Polar Bear Preset with dark coloured Lambart.

100% Polar Bear Preset. Self shade darkness (right to left) 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0

100% Bear Preset, default global density 50000.

100% Bear Preset, global density 5000.

100% Bear Preset, global density 50000, sample density 64.

100% Bear Preset, global density 5000, sample density 64

100% Bear Preset, baldness 0.2.

Low Density.

High Density.

Scraggle.

Clumping.

baldness.

Roll.

Polar.

inclination.