Making the chamber of oceans

“Making the chamber of oceans ” by Tjerk Otten
My wife actually helped me with this. She has a great camera and she is a great photographer as well. Her work shows me the other way of seeing things. That is what a photographer makes a photographer. It is when you can capture the essence of imagery and not when you make money of a photo shoot of someone’s party. The beauty of nature is the behind the scene’s look. The views that are different than that part of society that are walking by and just sit down at the same restaurant in the same country every vacation of the year.

When I was shooting footage for my video making of, she was working right along side of me to look for good “ textures “ for the foam of water. She was almost drifting on the water with her camera in her hand to get the essence of water. From these photo’s I used some crucial parts to put in the 3 to 4 water simulation I made for the water flooding. That is how the water became as it is in the final picture.

The Mussel ( Shell )
All throughout the project i was calling this object the mussel. In fact this is more a shell than a mussel, but i would call this in dutch “ een mossel “ which also is not a mussel but it just felt to me like it was. While this is not very important i felt like i wanted to share why i choose this name, mussel for a shell.

 
This small object is all most invisible in the scene, but it was supposed to have a greater role in the whole chamber of oceans setting. When working on such an advanced scene not really keeping on to a concept sketch, you often see things that were in your head at first but they are not working out that well and you try to change it. I actually made a very high resolution shell in zbrush and used it in my scene.

There are sitting on top of the middle plank of the wooden table. In the final picture you can see them on the left side of the picture. I Don’t need to tell too much about this, other than that i found this shell together with the shell i used for structuring the vase on the same beach, but not on the same day of the year.

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