ENVIRONMENT DESIGN - FLOODPLAIN ENTOMOLOGY LAB
I completed two final environment designs for the Lightbox Expo: Box of Mystery Challenge in 2020. It is inspired by the seasonal flood-meadows near my childhood home.
This first scene is the exterior view of the house and research station out amongst the reedbeds of a vast floodplain. The house is able to rise and fall with the water level across the year and is home to an entomologist. Its shape is based on a treehopper insect.
This first scene is the exterior view of the house and research station out amongst the reedbeds of a vast floodplain. The house is able to rise and fall with the water level across the year and is home to an entomologist. Its shape is based on a treehopper insect.
The house interior is quite narrow and chaotic. This second setting is the study room on the first floor tucked under the eaves at rear of the house. The beams are laden with large living insect pupae being studied which wriggle from time to time and at the far end, stairs curl down to the laboratory. Anyone passing through must make sure to give the grub on the floor a pat and a snack.
I chose to portray the early morning when our scientist goes up to check on the insects. Overnight, it seems that someone has undergone metamorphosis and wishes to be set free at the window.
I chose to portray the early morning when our scientist goes up to check on the insects. Overnight, it seems that someone has undergone metamorphosis and wishes to be set free at the window.
Full challenge thread is viewable on ArtStation.
Photographs in call-out sheets that are not my own are © their respective creators.
Photographs in call-out sheets that are not my own are © their respective creators.
© Dominique Vassie 2022
