Event 4 Blackpool Friend Visit

 Part 10-11

1. I went to visit a Rick who lives in Blackpool to watch Wrath of the Titans and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! The Pirate film was fantastic and funny. After the movies I couldn’t stay too long at the car park so I went to the beach and took as many photos as I could.  

2. It was a good opportunity to increase my texture library with beach textures. Also it will make a nice reference source for the near future.

3. Blackpool has cleaned up the entire beach and restored most of the sea supports. It felt too neat and clinical rather than a natural environment, so I had to make the best of this.

4. To make the most this opportunity I decided to get quite a few textures I got 3 or 4 sand textures and a few with foot prints in them, also wet sand, disturbed sand, puddles on the sand and other combinations like stones.

5. I started to get seaweed textures and then found an old rusted up support structure that gave me some quality textures. I already had got quite a lot of photos of stone textures as shown in the bottom of the pictures below.

6. These are the sea supports that I have taken a lot of textures from the Council have replaced some of the rusted bolts and repaired some of the metal work holding it all together.  

7. They have refurbished most of Blackpool’s prom into a more modern simplistic style but to be honest it is not to my taste as I am I not a fan of modern art. I am still a big fan of gothic, art nouveau, Indian and other architectures.  

8. It does look nice but it feels… empty and plain. There are some interesting shapes that caught my eye like the spiked lights that look like a Swiss army knife with light attachments.   

Event 3 Preston Green Patch

 Part 9 - 10

1. I have known about this place since I was at Preston Collage. There are little nice green patches around Preston which sometimes are not taken care of with the grass allowed to overgrow a bit. I started this venture on a rare beautiful sunny day, I came across a variety of a colourful trees in bloom, it was a goldmine for textures of the bark, leaves and ground textures of the tree. (Leaves tend to fall on the floor creating a new texture inertly instead of just seeing simple grass.)      

2. It’s depressing seeing people dump their unwanted materials into this green patch but it could have been worse… It could have been plastic, at least wood can slowly erode.

3.  At least it’s only one small spot of the green patch, so never mind I did get some really good textures and inspirational photos.

4. This is the naturally formed bridge I used to get across. I felt it was like being a gymnast on a balancing beam but without the leotard. I managed to get a couple of good textures from this area such as the rotten tree trunk close to the water, also moss, mushrooms and more.

5. After the high wire act I came across many really inspirational types of vegetation near the river together with the walls that support the cliffs. The walls have been overgrown with mould, fungi, plants and roots that gave me really lovely textures. I managed to get textures of the long thick leaf type grass that will make a good texture for my level as it is based in this kind of environment.

6. After my tree hugger episode I climbed the other side of the V shaped valley into the green patch and found a thrown away rusted metal sheet. It was over a barb wire fence but I still got good quality photograph from it. This will be all over the level as random scrap metal is left unattended and it will look like someone or something has been moving bits around.

Event 2 Beacon Fell Journey

Part 7 -8

Beacon Fell Journey

1. First stop was petrol for my car. On the way I passed a church and thought why not get some more gothic church research and textures (I was slightly disappointed when I went in because they hadn’t kept the gothic theme it was modern it had been refurbished, what a shame!)

2. I have passed these types of trees near my house for 21 years and it has taken me this long to realise how beautifully grown they are with ivy nicely rapped around them. I parked my car and went trigger happy with my new camera, I caught really good ivy textures and oak textures.

3.  When I was a kid (physically not mentally as we can all act more childish when we are older o.-) I used to go down to a river that was close to my house and throw rocks in or try to skim a thin rock on top of the water. I also used to try to go as far as I can up the river until the water was deep enough to flow over my wellingtons and of course look out for the neighbour’s geese that were never … EVER! friendly… I started to explore the area and came across beautiful picture and texture opportunities. It had exactly the theme I wanted for the river in my level as it was not too deep yet it had nice rock beds and moss.

4. After recounting my childhood memories I got back in my car I drove 5 minutes to Beckon Fell. I could have walked there but time was of the essence because it was midday and I had to beat the sunset to keep the good lighting.

These were taken at the same time but when I went deeper into the pine forest it got darker and gave a cold blue depressed feel.

Lovely roots that are rotten and overgrown with moss.

5. Most people will ignore this thrown away water pump in the steep sloped bushes but I didn’t. I dragged it out and cutting the heavy thorns to free it enabled me to get nice textures and inspiration from mechanisms.

6. This was part of the old bridge that went across the fish pond, on it grew some nice variation of mould.

7. I have a lot of these root pictures and I think I can spare 1 or 2 to public view…

8. And yes I was even there for sunset and got this nice picture.

Event 1 Grandad's Collection

Event 1

Part 5-6 Machine texture hunt

1. Grandad’s old collection pile. I found so much useful stuff and textures in this pile.

2. Climbing and wading through the collection of old machines.

 

3. Climbing higher to get the things I want is a bit scare yet rewarding. I found old WW2 used tank heat shells (as shown in the bottom right picture) and got some really nice pictures of the heat shell cases and shells for my texture library.

4. I found an old fire hose I moved it to get good texture shots and believe me it was heavy and in a really awkward space which made its hard to reposition.

 5. After my gymnastic routine searching the collection I stumbled across quite a lot of useful stuff like cogs, old rusty tools, a beer bottle an old WW2 civilian gas mask and many more items. I was like a kid in a candy store and while I searched though the pile a thought suddenly popped into my mind “it’s like a woman’s handbag they have everything in there including a kitchen sink..” 2 minutes later I found a sink…

6. I felt I was in the circus doing a high wire act as I climbed over and through the pile.

7. Explored a little bit more, collecting martial textures outside in the construction yard.

8. Explored an oil tank and got some beautiful rusty metal textures including some rusty bolts. 

MA Research Semester 2

1.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ94NdYoI-GdtFMaujjrmjOW4GqvySnItPyrlMJEizo6uTcLAiivGTmVPpajF2szQoLzE7CSLQyiFPfIjPNVr3otnPozlxed5n_LCkhf2ntf3QNRTfXfmKuMvXMOgncze5wo1zpmc4blU/s400/Old+Pipes.jpg

2.
http://www.cruzine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/781-architecture-interior-old-dirty.jpg

3.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3662/3357484332_d34928bb2c.jpg

4.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/8664899.jpg

5.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h82000/h82262.jpg

6.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h82000/h82264.jpg

Add gasoline fuel into the mix to get a little more KABOOM! into my level.

7.

http://www.fletc.gov/about-fletc/glynco-nas-history/photos/hangar-filled-aircraft.jpg/image_preview

If the blimp hanger was empty they used it as a military storage facility :) interesting.....