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Lesson 2: Lesson 1: Creating worlds- Intro to creating worlds
- Thinking about the story of a land
- Exercise 1: Your own land
- The theme of a land
- Exercise 2: Theme
- Layout
- Exercise 3: Layout
- Designing buildings for a land
- Exercise 4: Building design
- Landscape
- Exercise 5: Landscape and plant life design
- Materials
- Exercise 6: Materials
- Graphics
- Exercise 7: Graphics and color
- Sound
- Exercise 8: Sound design
- Taste and Smell
- Exercise 9: Design a menu
- Mood board
- Exercise 10: Mood board
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Exercise 6: Materials
What is your land made of?
Exercise 6: Materials
Activity: Create a collage of material references for the surfaces in your land. You can do this physically or virtually. It should contain images of every surface you can think of: roofs, floors, doors, interior/exterior walls and even small details such as door handles. Try to find at least 5 reference images for your collage.
Show this collage to a friend (or family member) and ask them what they can guess about your land from these materials (such as the time period, location and story).
- Did their ideas match your vision?
- If there were differences, what details might you change to better reflect your story?
Want to join the conversation?
Wood, wood, more wood, asphalt, wood, fiberglass, wood, steel, wood, concrete, wood, rock, wood, and did I mention wood?(44 votes)
That's a lot of wood!(2 votes)
wood, rocks and wool, like a medieval time, but what about a dragon?(11 votes)- you could use metal to do a dragon like you'll see in Universal. The metal can be easily spray painted vibrant colors and it lasts for a while.(3 votes)
Are we supposed to create a real mini version of the land or just like a collage? I do not really know, but I think I will create a mini land of my imagination anyway.(4 votes)- It would be fun to make a mini version. What I’m doing is I’m going to make this world on Minecraft(4 votes)
Since I am doing a floating island, I would do glass floors, maybe acrylic, to see the scenery below. I would use a titanium-reinforced dome with glass that generates electricity from the UV rays from the sun, but still lets light through, creating an energy source, as well as an awesome view.(6 votes)
so what city or fantasy world is your floating island going to be from(0 votes)
- rock, clay, brick, concrete, steel, metal, copper, wood, plastic, glass, silver, iron.(4 votes)
- What if you already told them what your land was?
Then they couldn't guess for the exercise.(3 votes)
Maybe find new people then.(2 votes)
i am going to use cobwebs and remote control spiders and place them at different locations at different levels and a robot is going to control them . there are going to be cracked windows and wood painted so that it looks old and creepy(4 votes)
I would use rocks to put on the ground and some iron/steel to make spaceships, framing, and roller coaster tracks and carts. I would also use some brick and some of the materials they listed to make fake wood. I would probably also use some glass. I might use bulletproof glass instead of the glass that can be broken incredibly easily, to make it last longer and also stop theft and vandalism. I also might use some gravel for the pathways.(3 votes)- I would like to use stones and clay to make things look realistic. I will also paint cardboard so I can use it for my buildings.(2 votes)
Cardboard gets soaked in the rain and it will eventually get sogy...(2 votes)
- For imagineering a theme park, the goal is: what looks and feels right, but will stand the test of time? My goals for this particular exercise are to see what the likely materials used would have been, and how they deteriorate after a set ammount of years. A log house in one climate wears differantly than a stick framed house in another climate. Modern shingles are different than 100 years ago. How much erosion would be expected from a small creek over a half of a century?(2 votes)