Week 23

Week 23

One project ends and another begins. This is the final project; the zombie Toyota pickup truck. This is not only our final project but also another big project, which I am excited for, as it will give me some time to push my fundamentals even more. The project has been split in two, 3 weeks to model a Basic Toyota and concept zombie survival mod to it and the rest to model its "zombie slayer" form.

The zombie genre used to be one of my favourite fictional texts however due to so many zombie texts coming out recently; I've been a bit turned off. So initially when met with this brief I wasn't enticed with the utmost enthusiasm.

 On the other hand, what I was excited for was getting a chance at tackling vehicle design and learning how to draw vehicles to which to my disappointment I had found that this would not be formally covered during the course of this project. However, after speaking to one of my tutors about this and telling him about my difficulty when tackling this area he recommended me a book by Scott Robertson named "How to draw cars the hot wheels way". The book itself looks like it is something written for kids however maybe this is just something I need; a book attempting to explain something as complicated as linear perspective and "dumb" it down for younger audiences. I just can't wait to get stuck in.

My truck so far

Back to the project, when attempting this project personally I felt a bit lazy. I know deep in my heart It probably would've taken me 2-3 days to model and unwrap my model, in spite of that I ended spending a whole week on this instead often loosing focus during the model stage. I feel as if maybe it's the fact that we have been given a lot of time such as the other project, or that the fact that this time there is no boot camp and we have just been told to get on with it.   Perhaps it could be just the fact that it's so soon after such an intensive project or maybe all 3. Either way I am disappointed with how I approached this week's work and I really hope to change that the coming weeks.

This week I did manage to develop a moodboard based around what I would want my pickup truck to reflect.  Initially I wanted my vehicle to be a fine tuned death machine; something that you would see out of Mad Max and communicate to audiences that my vehicle belonged to some sort of crew of bandit.  Images such as the ones above really caught my attention as to what I wanted to achieve.

The ultimate cut and shut

However the more I started to research Toyota car mods I came across this awesome creative thing people do with cars called cut and shut. The process describes taking two different cars and merging them together like the one above. Although most of the results end up being hilarious it's something I could really see occurring in an apocalypse in which everything is falling apart and nothing is working. I have to say after seeing this stuff this took my enthusiasm levels way up. This zombie pickup brief has just turned into an episode of scrapheap challenge with a zombie backdrop and I could never be any more excited!

My moodboard so far