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As you would say - How come?? Easy. He’s my brother in laws’ cousin. We talked and discussed all day long about the innovation going on in the web community and he showed me his first version of a 3D browser prototype (pretty rough if you think about it now). Not to mention that he kindly showed me loads of paper documents jammed in this locker … documents about the birth of World Wide Web he worked on with T. B. Lee 😮 What a honour, ladies and gentleman! I got astonished by the advance of web technology, of course. Also, at that time I was looking or a subject to work on for my thesis, and all of sudden I felt like making a stand “This is it, I got it!” Web and 3D will be.
Later on, the idea of Kepher was born, as I took the passion of flight and design (as I quit the Air Force Academy before applying to the Academy of Fine Arts). With this combo mix in my mind, I produced a very extensive full 3D modeling compositions, wrote storyboarding and video-edited to create the short video teaser Back to Moon, around 2006. Two years later I conceived and developed a game concept along with another short video, the sequel New America.
Kepher is the thesis i presented at the end of my journey in the Academy of Fine Arts. Produced a book entitled A look at the future of 3D Modeling from Aeronautics to Astronautics. The book presents a comprehensive view of the world of Computer Graphics 3D. How this subject was born out of man’s imagination, its development throughout history until today, and what’s to come. The last chapter of the book focuses on a Sci-Fi 3D interactive web application, that has anticipated modern interaction system used today by many shops online.
The overall project keeper is mostly based on 3D Production
Drawing has always been the starting point for bringing ideas to life.
In the transition from paper to the modeling program, a series of Modeling operations were then undertaken such as to realize the idea in the three-dimensional form
At the end of the 3D modeling phase, those of Texturing and Lightining followed in order to offer the elements truthful appearance. Some scenes have been used to recreate paintings, and then print them, according to the current Space Art of the last century
The entire result obtained from the 3D production was summarized in the web development phase with the construction of a futuristic interface capable of hosting the kepher theme
The goal of the interface was to have a structure that made the quantity of produced elements explorable
The goal of the interface was to have a structure that made most of the Kepher elements explorable online using the innovative 3D interactive technology
The Kepher theme was also meant to be broadcast via the video channel. The intent was to convey the message that in the near future humanity would undertake the colonization of the Moon, and that then from this satellite they would use the lunar base as a starting point for the next destination, Mars.
In the video production I took care of creating and editing the trailer videos directly in the 3D environment, dividing them into separate scenes for each phase of the mini story.
Some examples of retouching with the 3D camera and other exercise videos for understanding space flight
The final result of the entire Kepher project ended with a video trailer of no more than 3 minutes, a prototype aimed at stimulating the creation of a future science fiction film or a futuristic video game. Chopin's music created a calm rhythm with dancing audio-visual counterpoints and with an evident tribute to the film A Space Odyssey,
As a whole, the creation of a book of over 300 pages was also undertaken to represent the theme of Interaction Design, endorsing scientific theses combined with those of fantasy. The last chapter represented the Kepher project with the theme of history, motivations and technical explanations of the work execution
The choice of the chapter was born from the union of two passions, design and flight. In fact, in 2004 I was undertaking an internship at the Aeronautical Academy of Pozzuoli, Naples, as an aspiring pilot cadet. Following this experience, I then pursued the other passion, that of drawing. The reason for the high chapters is to be found in my curiosity to fully understand the reality that has surrounded us for over 40 thousand years, thus exploring fields of study that are forbidden according to the will of academic history, but which Hollywood has continuously represented us with explanatory films for many years.
The working process has thus involved my knowledge also in the field of printing, such as to allow me to design a book ready for serial printing
Some representative images of the book ready to print, oversized format.
The printing process was done in one day at the print shop. Two copies went to the Academy of Fine Arts and two more I have kept in my archived projects.
I used a copy of the book as a business card during my job interviews in the United States around 2008. The same book also helped me demonstrate my skills for any qualification validations in American universities
Along with the book in the inside back cover there was also the CD-Rom containing part of the project for offline navigation. In fact, I also took care of producing the packaging on the Kepher style line
The New America idea was to represent an evolutionary step of the Back To Moon trailer. In fact, New America is a sequel. The idea behind this project was a game concept development to convey the message that humanity should have made a double jump, after having colonized the moon. In other words, the next destination would be Mars
The 3D production involved an intense creative process to develop characters between protagonists and antagonists in the new story of Kepher. A colleague from the study course was responsible for producing the pilot character and creating some sketches by hand
Some representative sketches of the characters were drawn, inspired by the science fiction of Hollywood cinema and also by science fiction books
The Moleding phase was characterized by advanced modeling techniques such as to allow the construction of alien and human bodies
At the end of the 3D modeling phase, those of Texturing and Lightning followed in order to offer truthful appearances to the elements and characters.
The New America idea was to represent an evolutionary step of the Back To Moon trailer. In fact, the goal of the game concept was to convey the message that humanity should have made a double jump, after having colonized the moon. In other words, the next destination would be Mars
The storyboard was a creative phase such as to sketch the scenes of the trailer and understand the arrangement of the elements and characters. A colleague from the course of study who took care of intervening in the production of the video trailer behind my coordination
During the video production, advanced motion fps operations were undertaken to be able to create dynamic and captivating moments typical of an action film
The final result of the whole process was so represented by a video trailer about 2 minutes. The music added a more dramatic cadence than the original trailer, Back To Moon. Time is running out and the project to transfer human knowledge elsewhere in space is the priority to be pursued
As a whole, the creation of a book of about 80 pages was also undertaken to represent the theme of the video game, endorsing scientific theses combined with those of fantasy. Other chapters instead represented the evolution of the Kepher project with motivations and technical explanations of the work execution
The working process has thus involved my knowledge also in the field of printing, such as to allow me to design a book ready for serial printing
The production of the book stopped at the creation of the graphic pages and never went to the printing stage. For visual continuity, the project was set to the same out of square format
Attached to the New America project was presented the CD-Rom containing part of the project for offline navigation. In fact, I also took care of producing the packaging on the evolved line of the Kepher style
