Making the chamber of oceans

“Making the chamber of oceans ” by Tjerk Otten
I had never really modeled a human character before. I tried out some head modeling , but that was it. I found it to hard to recreate a real human being. We are to familiar with the forms of humans. I am also not the best drawer or anatomy or human faces. I wanted this to work, so i let my wife shoot about 100 photographs of me, I bought a small mirror to put in front of me while modeling and started doing the job. Zbrush also got its part in this process, its a small one, but a good one. I also used zbrush to fix the seams for the texture of Lucas.

What about the bandage Lucas has over his eyes in a lot of work in progress shots. Well, in the original story Lucas lost his sight, and needed to wear bandage for safety, i actually made some real bandage and made some stains with dirt and, used jelly to make some blood stains on it and used this as a reference. Nobody liked the whole idea around the bandage, so somewhere in the project i just stopped to further work this out. I never made the eyes of Lucas, because this was not necessary for the shot.
It took me a long time to finish Lucas. Personally I’m thinking it was worth it.

In the sunflower fountain I had a small easter egg. The dvd collection on the shelf, which contained a lot of my inspiration sources for being creative. The chamber of oceans also has an easter egg. The Easter egg of the chamber of oceans is the sign on the back of Lucas. This is the same emblem of the jacket of Ryo Hazuki from on of the most expensive games of all times.
Shenmue. Shenmue is still an inspiration to me and i think to a lot of people. Its about a young chinese guy who lost his father but wants revenge. In this world he is seeking for the murderer of his father and he can do all most everything. Knock on every door in the village, talk to everybody. This game lost a lot of money because Sega had troubles with the marketing of the dreamcast, so this is why Shenmue didn’t get the attention that it deserved. I think that Yu Suzuki is one of the greatest game designer of all time and sega is one of my favorite game makers (currently publisher). This is why i wanted to put in that emblem.
The Dandelion ( Horseflower )

This is a very small element in the scene. You can compare it with the tree leafs in The Anchor and with the Sunflower leafs in The Sunflower Fountain. It is just a small element that makes the picture. It tells just a little bit more about the scene. I called this the horseflower, because this is the exact translation of how we call this plant. Horses seem to eat this plant or flower a lot. What i like about the horseflower or dandelion is that the seeds can fly anywhere. If you roughly shake the plant , all the seeds will lift of in the sky and wonder around until they find a good place to land. One of the few places to have wind all the time ( all most ) is the sea. Even if it’s a little bit, there should be enough, perhaps a small breeze to push these seeds from land to anywhere, and perhaps this small seeds, flew all the way across the sea to meet Lucas, and tell him that his home, is closer than he thinks….

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