1. materials 'n stuff
Materials for this one are pretty basic. Ever heard about how God made the sky and earth, and everything else was made in China? Lets turn it around a little bit just for this one. The sky was painted by me. It was painted the old fashioned way, using some tempera and water colors to get the required effect. The earth was photographed in November, using my smartphone, playing a tourist in the middle of the street in Chinatown district in San Francisco, CA.
Move on.
The sky ...
... and earth.
2. composition
This is a "blank" image without the inserted animations. Parts of the buildings in the background are masked out,
creating more space for the traffic jam part.
Traffic jam part added.
The final step - a plane, flying over the skies of SanFran.
3. final result
After almost a month, and a few hours of work, this one was ready for rendering. This animation was hugely inspired by a song called Voices by Alice in Chains. I don't know why, it just got me the "right" feeling every time I started to work on it. And there it is, the final result:
