THE JOHN-SCOTT PROJECT: 1. Concept

The brief:
Create a cellular/molecular landscape of a physiological process.
You will create two final pieces:

• 1. a journal cover with vertical 8.5x11" dimensions, entirely painted in Photoshop;
• 2. one with horizontal HDTV dimensions (1920x1080 px) created entirely in 3ds Max.

The two pieces should be obviously related, but they need not be identical.

(Because the project involves extensive crossover between John Daugherty's class [which is the Photoshop aspect] and Scott Dixon's class [which is the 3ds Max portion], it has been affectionately termed "the John-Scott project." It probably has a formal name, but nobody really seems to know what it is.)

(Oh and by the way this project will be worth like 50% of your grade in each class.)


The concept:
Bone remodeling, based mostly on this animation and this article.

The short version is that osteoclasts (the big cells) eat away at bone (the beams and struts that comprise most of the scene) and osteoblasts (the little cells) ooze stuff that becomes new bone. And some of the osteoblasts get buried in their own ooze and become osteocytes (normal bone cells). And this all happens under tentlike cellular canopies.


What you're looking at above:
The concept sketches.


So what:
Based on input from my classmates and instructors, I decided to create a scene that was a cross between the 2nd and 3rd concepts.


Stay tuned!
For all posts on the John-Scott project, click here.


[Adobe Photoshop CS4]