3d Kaleidoscope Explosion Using Cinema 4d

PROCESS

 Creating a plane and extruding it a little bit

 Inserting the picture

Using a plug in - nitroblast to break the picture

Using deformers and putting randomly all the broken pieces into a space of a sphere

FINAL OUTCOME

Note : click on the pictures below and see them in order, it gives you the feeling of movement.

When we see a 2D picture our mind is what makes it 3D according to our experiences because we know the perspectives/angles. In other words we look at something which is 2D and we build a 3D picture in our mind. For example in reality when we look at something each one of us observes it differently, based on what we think it's more important for us: colours, shapes, materials. Every person is different and doesn't pay attention to they same things in an image, what attract us we see it bigger and what not smaller, by doing this it's as if we rearrange what we see and what affects us and filter it. 

By making this model in cinema 4d I wanted to exaggerate the 3d effect of the picture since I was failing to achieve it in all my previous experiments. 
The idea came when I broke the mirror in order to create a new device. All those pieces where giving me different reflections and perspectives of how you see things so I wanted to explode a picture from portobello road and create something similar. The image is not clear at all and it is hard to make sense of what you see but this was my intention, it looks like a puzzle that needs to be fixed but the question is how are you going to fix it? are you going to use your imagination and rearrange the pieces and create something completely new or you want it how it originally was?

Creating a New Device # 3

  

My tutors suggested me to create a device as the one above in order to get an effect that would be more 3 dimensional. I broke a mirror into many small pieces and stuck it into a large scale cardboard tube. 

Above I have a few pictures I took with it. Unfortunately for once again I didn't get the effect I was hoping for. The cardboard tube was the same size all along that's why it didn't work, it should have been more like a cone and I should have also placed more carefully the mirrors inside it. 

I will make a new one by paying closer attention to the details and try of making it more accurate.

Research Related to My Next Steps

Deconstructing ways by Isidro Blasco 

Using giant photographs supported by an 800-kilogram wooden frame, Blasco built an uncannily realistic 3D mirror image of a streetscape installed in Sydney in order to create a giant optical illusion of the alley going in another direction.

His goal was to trick somebody and actually believe it.

Cornelia Parker 

The installation is lit with a single light-bulb at the very centre of the arrangement, casting shadows on the walls. The title gives us a whole new way of understanding the artwork, making us think of other dramatic moments of destruction and creation in the 
much wider universe.

She is interested in how everyday objects can be changed by (often violent) processes.

She is in fact fascinated by how change can create something completely new.

 This is exactly what i'm interested in, how you can create something new by changing it by taking fragments of it, by taking the parts that intrest you the most and join them all together in order to create an optical illusion in a way.

Blasco's installation is something I would really like to try and make at some point of my project. It reminds my the first collage I made with the perspectives and it would be really interesting if i could convert it in a similar model.

Area I Will Be Focusing On

I walked around almost everywhere between Landbroke Grove, Westbourne Park and Notting Hill and I finally decided that for the rest of my project/research my main focus will be around Portobello Road, so I set some boundaries marked with red on the maps above. 

WHY ? 

Im really interested in the colours that you find on the houses the materials, the market and the movement around this area all the different cultures and people that come together. From the videos i've made the main thing you realize is the many perspectives you get and all the different images that join and make one. I think the device I created can bring all those aspects together.

Saturday Walk At Portobello

IMG 8770 from evelyn on Vimeo.

kaleidoscope effect video experimentation 6 from evelyn on Vimeo.

As you can see from Saturday's pictures the market is really busy and you can barely walk on Portobello Road. I'm planning to go everyday of the week at the same time in order to record the movement and the differences between the days. Since I'm interested in perspectives, colours and materials I will use the kaleidoscope effect in order to combine them to create a result including all three aspects. I will also incorporate optical illusions which disable clear vision at first glance and always makes you discover something new and that's what makes it so exciting and interesting, that you focus on something specific but you also get in the picture/video something that you wouldn't expect. 

I want to find which areas of the market are more interesting and provide better results and why. From my walk last Saturday I realized that most of the people are tourists and they don't really stop to make purchases, they just walk around  taking pictures and soaking up the atmosphere. Of course this is not an accurate analysis it's just something that caught my attention and I'd like to take a further look at it.

3D Effect Collage Failure

This idea got lost in translation, evident from the image included. I had set off to create a more 3D effect on this collage but the unsuccessful perspective of the vanishing points kept me from reaching my intended goal. I ll try and make another one in order to achieve what I wanted.

And The Experimentation Continues - Device # 2

Portobello Road testing

                                             

kaleidoscope effect video experimentation from evelyn on Vimeo.

kaleidoscope effect video experimentation 2 from evelyn on Vimeo.

5 from evelyn on Vimeo.

As the first unique lense like object I created for this project was not producing the effect or colour traps I was hoping for i decided to redesign it. My second attempt produced more satisfactory images, based simply on the fact that the perspective is one I find more impressive and the separative lines for definitive.

I separated the images in categories and each one has an experimental video.

First Human Arabesque Without Computer Graphics

The Making of the TEDxSummit Video

The project fused architecture, dance, math and magic into a bespoke18-meter high triangular mirrored structure to create the world's first Human Arabesque without computer graphics.

The idea was to build a giant kaleidoscope and because the movie is about the power of people working together they wanted to make it a performance without the help of visual effects.

This is exactly the effect i'm trying to achieve through my photographs, the video is very inspiring and makes me want to experiment even more and maybe make a short film.