Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Augmented Reality Model Link

Images from Layar





Danny Huynh 3292443 - Arachna Habitat
URL address - http://tinyurl.com/2eaq2h7
Backup Model - http://tinyurl.com/2eqfcds or http://tinyurl.com/2atpyte

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Final Poster


Final Version of my Creature Habitat Poster.

Draft Poster



The theme colour for my poster will be in similar context to the colour scheme found on my spore creature. Layout will feature my images on the left and text reading on the right. I chose this layout in order to allow the viewers to look at the images before reading the text since the the Western style of reading goes from left to right.

Draft Poster Text

Arachna is a highly evolved creature originating from the species of 'arachnid' family. The Arachna is distinguished by it's red colored body with black stripes, sharp pincer like teeth and long armed claws standing at just over 8
feet tall. Evolving from a long line of spiders, Arachna have evolved to walk on 6 legs rather than 8 and has grown a set of arms with sharp lethal claws from its middle abdomen being able to walk upright similar to a humanoid.

With a tough exoskeleton acting as a hard outer shell, poisonous pincer teeth, multiple slender legs and powerful claws as weapons, these make the Arachna an extremely lethal foe and formidable predator. The Arachna choose to inhabit dessert canyons located within the depths of rocky canyons forming the landscape geography into a web shaped cavern that leads deep underground.

Losing the ability to spin webs through evolution, the Arachna instead chooses to dig it's cavern deep down into the rocky canyons causing cliffs surrounding it's lair to be used as a trap for captuing it's prey. Using poisonous spores spewed from it's upper mouths, the Arachna covers the canyon with it's spores to attract potential animals and prey to fall down into it's web shaped pit with no way out. Able to scale the walls quickly using it's powerful arms and legs, the Arachna is extremely lethal and agile able to subdue any prey, often even leaving it's home to hunt for
prey.

Once fallen into one of the divided chambers of it's web, the Arachna will inject it's fallen victims with a paralyzing venom and drag them into it's lair deeper underground storing them for food. The Arachna will lurk within it's lair constantly spewing it's spores into the atmosphere waiting for any unforunate prey to fall victim down into the pit before coming out of it's lair. Arachna chooses to live inside it's lair with thick rocky cavern walls protecting itself from the heat and sunlight. The interior of it's underground caverns provide a minimal amount of light
to be allowed into the space, the entrance to the lair is found within the center of the pit as a hole going straight underground that only the Arachna can access easily due to it's ability to easily climb walls and jump.

The outer landscape is surrounded by dessert valleys with minimal vegetation and rocky stone canyons disguising the Arachna's lair deep within the canyon walls and hidden from public view. The Arachna species mature within 40-50 days and have a lifespan of about 14 months. Arachna when breeding, the female will lay 2-3 eggs once year and will not lay anymore until the pack have

fully matured and migrate from their homes. Living in packs of 4-6 at a time, Arachna will generally hunt in packs and scale
the surrounding landscape while the female will guard the eggs or hibenate within the caverns spewing it's poisonous spores.

Developed Model Images


Frank Lloyd Wright - Falling Waters









Falling Water is possibly Wright's most famous work in architecture, considered an architectural masterpiece, the building is situated above a waterfall with free floating platforms. The style of the structure is a fusion between nature and architecture. Using the surrounding enviroment to add style and emphasis to the architecture


Wright evolved a new concept of interior space in architecture. Rejecting the existing view of rooms as single-function boxes, Wright created overlapping and interpenetrating rooms with shared spaces. He designated use areas with screening devices and subtle changes in ceiling heights and created the idea of defined space as opposed to enclosed space.

Sources: http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Frank_Lloyd_Wright.html
http://www.howardmodels.com/frank-lloyd-wright/index.html
http://www.examiner.com/interior-design-in-national/remembering-frank-lloyd-wright-part-ii