Bone Exoskeleton

 

Using this bone as a precendent i have designed an exoskeleton for my object. I think i might try refine it a little more and add a material but apart from that i am pretty happy with it.

 

Melting Second Attempt

 

This is my second attempt at melting my object. I like this method a lot better as it looks more like melting rather than deflation mainly because of the puddle formed at the base of the object implying it is now a liquid instead of a solid.

 

 

 

 

Melting First Attempts

This is my first slightly successful attempt at trying to melt my rock object through animation. The effect looks a little more deflating rather than melting but i think if i spend a little more time on each individual frame it will look more like melting. I haven't done my exoskeleton yet so that is why there isn't bone in the middle.

Material Ideas

 

For my materials I am going to use Rock/Dirt patterns in the form of a kind of skin that will melt off. I think this will be affective because it is very unexpected as rock is an unusual and rarely seen material to melt.

 

 

http://fc04.deviantart.net/images/i/2003/39/d/c/Dirt___Ground_Cracks.jpg

 

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs30/f/2008/159/3/7/Cracked_Earth_Dirt_Texture_02_by_FantasyStock.jpg

Concepts

 

These are my three concepts derived from Salvador Dali's melting clocks artworks. I took his melting and disintegrating ideas and applied them to my objects. The reason I chose cubes for my objects is I wanted to focus more on the transformation of the object rather than its original state. I plan to have the original object be made of rock then slowly melt away revealing a bone like exoskeleton, which will finally disintegrate into dust or sand as depicted below. The overall theme I'm going for is fossilisation as I think it is a good example of transformation over time.

 

 

 

Project 1: Materiality - Precedents

 

For my precedents I chose the famous melting clocks artworks of Salvador Dali. I chose these as my precedents because I was inspired by his way of melting an object but still keeping it in it's original shape as if it can't be liquefied. I have included The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory is because after melting my object I am planning to disintegrate it into lots of small pieces.

 

 

Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion

 

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The Persistence of Memory

 

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The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

 

 

http://www.arts-wallpapers.com/art-wallpaper-org/artists/artist/salvador-dali/The%20Disintegration%20of%20the%20Persistence%20of%20Memory/The-Disintegrationdali10247.jpg