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This model was produced as part of an A2 Graphic Communication project, for which I followed a self-set brief to design and construct a 3D character concept piece, based on an imagined fictional world for TV or film. The project idea came through the knowledge that concept art and models are often used by the creative teams behind films to help illustrate their artistic visions to film studios and ultimately sell their ideas. Chris Nolan, for example, presented production designer Nathan Crowley’s ‘kit-bashed’ miniature Batmobile model to Warner Bros. executives, knowing that the style of the single model would clearly communicate to them his broader vision for Batman Begins. Similarly, my model would hopefully convey the essence of my own concept for a grim post-apocalyptic world.

The character, named The Pariah, is a man-machine hybrid – someone who has been biomechanically repaired, modified and ‘upgraded’ to an extent that he is barely recognisably human. The idea was to have particular parts of his organic body remaining, but connected to a largely mechanical frame, with synthetic limbs and various wires and tubes feeding into his body and keeping him alive, creating a gruesome, monstrous appearance.

Unlike my previous models, which were made from small parts sculpted using polymer clay, this one was built around a fixed wire armature using air-dry clay for the organic sections and an assortment of bits and bobs for the mechanical parts. These included things like different sized nuts, bolts, springs and a whole range of lots of bits of plastic and wire from various sources cut and bent to shape.

This was my first time producing a model to a deadline, and was an interesting experiment in creating something from my own design and using materials and processes I hadn't tried before. The painting was done in the space of three evenings leading up to the deadline, as opposed to the weeks and weeks I spent painting previous models! The model stands approximately 5 inches tall.

Additional views of the model from various angles are available on my flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/marcusau…

Description
This model was produced as part of an A2 Graphic Communication project, for which I followed a self-set brief to design and construct a 3D character concept piece, based on an imagined fictional world for TV or film. The project idea came through the knowledge that concept art and models are often used by the creative teams behind films to help illustrate their artistic visions to film studios and ultimately sell their ideas. Chris Nolan, for example, presented production designer Nathan Crowley’s ‘kit-bashed’ miniature Batmobile model to Warner Bros. executives, knowing that the style of the single model would clearly communicate to them his broader vision for Batman Begins. Similarly, my model would hopefully convey the essence of my own concept for a grim post-apocalyptic world.

The character, named The Pariah, is a man-machine hybrid – someone who has been biomechanically repaired, modified and ‘upgraded’ to an extent that he is barely recognisably human. The idea was to have particular parts of his organic body remaining, but connected to a largely mechanical frame, with synthetic limbs and various wires and tubes feeding into his body and keeping him alive, creating a gruesome, monstrous appearance.

Unlike my previous models, which were made from small parts sculpted using polymer clay, this one was built around a fixed wire armature using air-dry clay for the organic sections and an assortment of bits and bobs for the mechanical parts. These included things like different sized nuts, bolts, springs and a whole range of lots of bits of plastic and wire from various sources cut and bent to shape.

This was my first time producing a model to a deadline, and was an interesting experiment in creating something from my own design and using materials and processes I hadn't tried before. The painting was done in the space of three evenings leading up to the deadline, as opposed to the weeks and weeks I spent painting previous models! The model stands approximately 5 inches tall.

Additional views of the model from various angles are available on my flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/marcusau…