Tackling task two!

Our next task (that was actually set on the 05/10/2015 whoops) we were given the word Orrery!

*crickets chirp in my head*

I had actually never heard the term Orrery before ... So I had to look it up, thank the lord for Google!

"An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. It may also represent the relative sizes of these bodies; but since accurate scaling is often not practical due to the actual large ratio differences, a subdued approximation may be used instead. Though the Greeks had working planetaria, the first orrery that was a planetarium of the modern era was produced in 1704, and one was presented to Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery — whence came the name. They are typically driven by a clockwork mechanism with a globe representing the Sun at the centre, and with a planet at the end of each of the arms." - wikipedia.

Unlike the insect task brief, this one was not as brief, we were given a little more information

"Concept Art:

Design an Orrery. Submit: Iteration / development PDF Final Concept (300dpi) Model sheets (Inc. material analysis and photographic reference)"

I have to admit I done so well with the last task that I feel bad that I'm not so on the ball with this one. I'm going to be taking the same path as with the first task, but working to the requests listed above. Last task I went cultural and tried a style I'd not tried before, this time I'd like to do the same again. Here is a collection of images to start the creative process!

Whilst pondering my ideas I noted a few things with my classmate Maxine down in my notepad as we both felt we needed to help each other figure out what we were going to do ...

(Excuse the doodle, me and Maxine were trying to work out, what someone would look like with a chimney on her. #howtogetcreativejuicesflowing)

For me I want to either go down the Roman or Greek route, I'm leaning more toward Greek though, especially with the mythology surrounding these cultures, also its the era of Archimedes who was a great inventor and Astronomer, I showed these ideas to my tutor Mark and he liked the idea of creating an Orrery from this time period and suggested I look into how people from this time viewed space, and how many planets they were aware of at that time, so my Orrery could look very different and unique in comparison to other people.

I admitted to Mark that both me and Maxine were a bit overwhelmed by our work at this stage, it always feels massively scary to admit that you are a bit in over your head but it felt good to say it. Mark explained a few things about doing researching and stopping ourselves from getting bogged down, he suggested we do a little bit of research, then implement that and do some creative work, then learn from that creative work and apply that to the next stage of research. I have to admit I'm of the do loads of research and then apply that and create, might have to start unlearning that and get into a new mindset with my creative process.

I really like the idea of going back in time for this task, as with the last task its a culture I've never really focused on before and I've always been interested in myths and weird stuff so .... now to start mood boarding and creating!