Making the chamber of oceans

“Making the chamber of oceans ” by Tjerk Otten
The Painting

So in modeling terms the painting perhaps is a joke. Its just a simple plane with a alpha map attach to it. But I made a lot of paintings before i choose the final one. I used different cloth animations, rips, cuts, you name it. I tried everything out, but it was just getting away the attention from the scene, and even worse, it was not showing the actual content of the painting. The painting itself is in this way the important piece. The Harbor that you see on the painting is in this story, the actual home of Lucas. They live just a few miles away from the harbor and they were there almost every day. Lucas was so longing to get home so fast to be in that harbor. There were many of his fathers ships docked in this harbor. There was so many history in here, and thats why i wanted to keep the essence of the painting up and just leave it like it. Sometimes less is more if its needed in the storyline.  
The Wooden Supports
I have heard on forums that people were saying. The walls are too thin, the door is ripped out somebody’s living room. I had written an article about how all most everything came from real ship reference. The door in this story is just plain fun. I got this reference from a ship that was totally made out of metal, but the captains hut had this wooden door. That is the door i used for the scene.
The wooden supports on the ceiling and above the painting of the cabinet, came from a living room, but that is just an artistic vision. If i had my own ship, i would do with it whatever i wanted to do with it, and in theory everything is possible on a ship. If you see footage from the titanic without seeing the movie, you would not now that all this materials could be on a ship. Anything is possible when it comes to making stuff that is different from the usual.
Lucas

In my original idea was a character that was somehow shocked by what was happening in the scene. But not that he is running away or perhaps screaming. He is in that point of time where the awareness of a man is coming up. Something unusual is happening and you have about 2,3 seconds that nothing is happening, the first reaction is somewhat a slow reaction , its more of a reflex. I positioned Lucas at that stage of time.

There were people that found the stance of Lucas weird, even when it was right. But I tried it out for myself, I own the coat Lucas is wearing. I put on the “ Lucas “ costume and performed the act as it was happening to me. I took several photographs from this action and tried to keep that essence. I felt that it was supposed to be like this.

People are 90 % of the time focused on the “ human “ form, and often think its the most important in a whole picture. If you have a movie scene that is without a character, you are watching everything in the scene. The whole environment. Looking for something that grabs you attention. When you have the same shot with a character and he is very present, you miss out 70% of the environment, being to focused on the character. Great illusionists use this behavior in there favor to perform moves no one thought to be possible.

Lucas had to be a guy that is more an object of the scene than a human overtaking the scenery. The title of this image is also called, the chamber of oceans. Therefor its about the chamber and not about Lucas being in the chamber.

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