When dealing with something fantasy based the accuracy to
the real world can be circumvented due to the wondrous new setting that the
events occur in. Therefore even though our animation is designed with the
events of Pearl Harbour in mind any geographical or architectural discrepancy
can be over ruled by the notion of artistic license.
This is most felt when it comes to the overall setting,
islands in the sky, but also when it comes to the building layout. Although I
had reference images to work to I didn’t stick rigidly to where the buildings
were and by not creating a unique building for every single place on the island
some buildings repeat when the reference image would display a new building.
Elsewhere it is felt with the wind turbines, previously justified due to the
likelihood of strong winds, which can be included even though traditionally
Ford Island would have had no such thing, but owing to the fantasy setting the
liberty of adding such an extra is quite acceptable.
Further example of this was the conundrum previously thought
up about the harbours, I felt they required some justification to allow them to
exist in the air alongside the island. Even though the island doesn’t
explicitly have this it is alright due to it being naturally forming within the
constructed world, the harbours being made by the people do need something else
to allow them to float. The solution to this was to introduce the original
engine I designed for inspiration at the beginning of the project. I attached
chains to them and held them out from the harbour pieces, setting the propeller
to turn on a looped animation means they sit and hover forever holding aloft
the harbours.
Perhaps a sign of a good project, but the thoughts of how
the people would deal with disaster did begin to cross my mind. How if a chain
ever broke they would need very swift repairs as without them the harbour would
plummet along with the people at work in its factories. Even the details of how
they were constructed and the volume of scaffolding required to perform such a
feat of engineering briefly went through my mind.
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