Sigh. I miss Cape Town.. 

Anyway, the other idea was a post-apocalyptic city. 

As you probably know, this idea was reinvented and repacked, and this is what we're working on now. At the beginning though, it didn't pass. It was said to be too difficult to model, too committing in terms of scope and size.

 

 

After the first meeting, we all agreed to go back and try to work on the two ideas that weren’t ruled out: The one was the Ghost Town, and the other was Sarah’s Idea, a dressing-room, possibly in a theatre. Moulin-Rogue-esque, perhaps.

I went home and did this crappy, rushed little drawing.

My ideas for the Ghost town moved along the lines of a lone traveller or a family arriving at the city, to find out that it’s completely empty. I envisioned the city being quite deep-south USA, and heavy on the eeriness.

For the dressing-room, I kinda saw an old lady coming back to confront her past. In my head she was a dancer or an actress or a working-girl, something that required youth and beauty. She’ll come back, and it will mostly a play of her and her reflection through the room ( the room representing the past of course).

 

By the time we met up again, most of the group have decided they don’t actually want to do either of the projects. They said they weren’t excited by either of the two, and so we were back to square one. I think at this point I started to feel like the group dynamics tend to be a bit too negative, and the general mood – deflated.

This is something that has lingered for quite a while, and only recently is showing sign of dying down.  I can’t really put my finger on the cause, but it seems like every time we find something that we agree on and want to build on, the groups as a collective find reasons to dislike it, and get quickly demotivated again.

 

Here are some of the pictures I showed at the first meeting, when the idea of a post apocalyptic was brought up and shot down again. I thought  New Orleans might be a good place to look for pictures of destruction. the way I'd envisioned it first, we'd have one quite impressive ruined building, next to some less impressive ones.