Community Routes continued...

As you probably appreciate my area model did indeed grow exponentially as I recognised the route that my virtual camera would need to travel in order to carry on creating this series of animations from it. I began to regard my model as having some sort of historical context as I had created it as accurately as my methods allowed and during the course of modelling changes were inevitably happening to my real world subject, new buildings, one way systems which of course I had to reflect. however I found myself "out on a limb" in creating it and failed to gain any real interest for the idea from the organisations portrayed as they are all community charities existing through funding that was always restrictive. I carried on regardless, of course, consumed with creative passion.

Links to organisations shown in these animations are Unity in Community and Greenwood Housing, North Hull Community Centre.

Christophers Dream

"Christopher's Dream" 2001 was created from a jumbled collection of computer models that I had created some time previously. The helicopter was my first real computer model, a Wessex Lynx modelled in around 1999. I felt very "accomplished" as I had worked out the setup for the independent rotations that needed to travel with and match the movement of the helicopter body. I also remember how at the time the demands on computer memory drove me to be in a continuous upgrading mode with my hardware in order for me to create this animation, which was my first attempt to "tell a story".