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White Gold - Concept Design & Conceptual Architecture

What tools to use as a contemporary commercial artist ?

Designsfiction - Episode 68: Using professional 3D software

such as Autodesk's Maya for design pre-visualization in the entertainment industry.

Production Designer Andrew Reznik hired concept artist Patrick Janicke to help design the fantastic city "Milkquarious"for "White Gold" milk commercials.

Here are some samples of Patrick Janicke's ideas for quasi retro futuristic and humorous city planning.

This is an example of production illustrator Patrick Janicke's computer generated 3D environments.

For traditional 2D drawings, film production illustrations and photoshopped concept art; go to http://www.productionillustration.com

Recent preproduction movie art work also at http://productionillustration.blogspot.com

Click on this designsfiction blog title to go to the White Gold website and watch the ad movie "Battle for Milkquarious" featuring the final maybe less serious (?) design.

Concept Design Previsualization for Motion Pictures

For the film " A Thousand Words", Patrick Janicke drew about 30 conceptual pencil illustrations of a tree that in a way plays its own character opposing Eddy Murphy. Production designer Clay Griffith chose a final design and a life size model was built. That full size tree was scanned to help concept illustrator Patrick Janicke build an accurate CG tree model. He also created different bodhi tree type leaves with texture maps. As the tree's loss of leaves is an important part of the film's narrative, Patrick did a series of previz movies to study the tree's transformation. In the movie's story, each leaf represents a word. When the tree dies and has only a thousand leaves left, Eddy Murphy's character realizes he is left with "A Thousand Words".
© 2008 designsfiction.com by Patrick Janicke, all rights reserved.

Vertical Vehicular Achitecture™

Church de Luxe - Vertical Vehicular - the adventures of Luxe & the Preacherman continue, promoting daily "PERSISTENCE"!
Soon to be seen at Gallery 800 in North Hollywood. Also available as a major motion t-shirt picture at http://famelandfashion.com. ©2009 designsfiction.com by Patrick Janicke, all rights reserved

Red Dawn - conceptual previz design

Bringing illustrations to life by building a CG model and animating a camera through it helps the production designer (Dominic Watkins) get an idea of the set before it is actually built.

designsfiction - 3D art used in fashion

The designsfiction 3D model built in Maya was redrawn by artist Patrick Janicke and became a T-shirt, now available for sale at TWISTED 7560 Melrose, Hollywood, California!

"The Flowering" at Gallery 800, showing new art by Patrick Jänicke

the UPCOMING ART SHOW "SPRING INTO SUMMER" will feature "the flowering", a V16 powered tree of life, 3D art work printed on canvas 3' x 4.5' by Patrick Janicke.

The show opens Saturday, May 30th 2009. Gallery 800 in North Hollywood - The Art of Hollywood's Professionals & Art Directors. 5108 Lankershim Blvd at the Historic Lankershim Arts Center
NoHo, CA 91601 • 818-763-8052 • gallery800@gmail.com

"The Flowering" by Patrick Jänicke - conceptual art studies

Here are some of the preliminary studies for the 3D model called "the flowering". You can see part of the modeling process and experiments with an HDRI lighting setup, creating an environment for the (V16 engine powered) flying tree of life.

The Power of Intention

Church de Luxe - works in progress

The Adventures of Luxe & The Preacherman

- Only on designsfiction.com : Preliminary Design for Church de Luxe - the vertical motorhome™ - (based on a 3D model)
A sneak preview of the upcoming project of beneficial presence:

3D set design using Maya - by Patrick Janicke

These are some rendered still images showing the benefit of building a three dimensional computer model to explore a fictional design - a design of fiction ;-)

Depending on your clients needs and objectives a digital model provides all kinds of pre-production and pre-visualization options.
Such as:
- You can have intimately lit perspective views evoking the mood and feeling of actually being in the space.
- You can generate flat plan or elevation views which give exact dimensional information to those who need to build the set in reality (set designers, art directors, carpenters etc..).
Note the different appeal of the 3D set with and without the application of detailed texture maps.

Posted with discretion by designsfiction.com's designer Patrick Janicke.