Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb

What the heck was running through my mind when I made that picture today?

I will admit, lately I have been on writers block, and that there is probably the most lazy work I have done in some time, I made a simple column just to test out some modeling. Fair and easy enough, however, I proceeded to shamelessly grab an older texture which actually was an unwrap with very little white on it and plaster it over an UV map modifier. Did I take the time to customize the texture for every column? Of course not, as I said, I am lazy today, so I just copied wildly, put up an omni and got the columns positioned correctly and made sure the light would fit with the environment, which I made in Photoshop, some tweaking and the additions of lens flare and stars and there you go, that's my work aside from some general writing.

Now, what back to the first question, what the heck was going through my mind when I made this?

Well, I was thinking of what would happen if I were to make my own film during the 6 month period. I have thought about this several times, most of the time it ends up in a heavy texture city landscape and the story ranges everything from a nuclear blast too simple artistic showing, this falling in the latter choice.

I thought about the stairway to heaven, a group in my class has a scene like that and I suddenly thought about golden platforming, like, remember when Super Mario had to jump onto block and block to get higher into the air? Well, these things are linked together by a fog, so they float for whatever reason, and thus they object of whatever character that would be on this scene is to go up, up and up without falling down, does gravity matter in outer space, well, depends on what you make of it I guess. However logic is a dimension away from this picture, in the end, it is just me being silly and for whatever reason, I kinda like the picture, it is surreal in a nice way.

Creativity can be taught, but it can also be found in the dimension of randomness, just go with the flow of whatever your mind guides you too and you are probably going to get a few crazy results like this.

PS: I was not drunk or high when I made this.