Holographic Fashion - VFX Short Film (Concept Art)

These concept sheets that I have included below are a part of the short film Holographic Fashion. These sketches have been used as the holograms within the first shot of the short film that I am interacting with.

I just want to talk a little about how I created these concept sketches.

Dress Concept Sheet 1, Anzel Rossouw, 2013

On the left of the screen I have included Dress Concept sheet 1, as well as Dress Concept sheet 2. In these two concept sheets, I want to illustrate how the dress designs look without the hologram effects. I wanted to show the initial sketches as they are, on white paper. These concept sketches were created using Adobe Photoshop just like my previous concept art.

As these concept sketches were meant to bring across an idea as to what kind of fashion would be followed within the future, I wanted to create weird and wacky clothes; a fashion that is futuristic. As the short film is about a fashion designer I wanted the designs to be elegant and almost a little bit formal.

Dress Concept Sheet 2, Anzel Rossouw, 2013

At first I started looking at unusual fashion, like those that would be modelled on catwalks; so designers items. Even the fashion that would be worn by our unusual music artists like Lady Gaga.

These designs gave me a great direction to head towards, but it still didn't feel like it was enough, it wasn't quite bringing across the futuristic effect that I wanted to emphasise. So I started looking at abstract art. I gathered some seriously great shapes and put that together with the most interesting fashion designs that I could find. I even used the reference that I have gathered for my environment of the futuristic furniture, within the dress/clothes designs.

Hologram Dress Concept Sheet 1, Anzel Rossouw, 2013

On the right of the screen I have included the two concept sheets Hologram Dress Concept Sheet 1, as well as Hologram Dress Concept Sheet 2. These concept sheets are used to illustrate how the dress designs shown above, would potentially look like with the hologram effects added to them.

These concept sketches shows the colour direction, to see which colour to use for the dress design holograms as well as the intensity of the glow that we were aiming for in the finished film.

Hologram Dress Concept Sheet 2, Anzel Rossouw, 2013

I created the glow effects using the Gaussian Blur filter with a duplicate of the concept sketch layer, within Adobe Photoshop. that way the initial layer that has not been blurred is creating that sharp outlines and the blurred layer acts as the glow of the outlines.

Hologram Concept Sheet, Anzel Rossouw, 2013

The concept sketches that I have included on the left, are all the sketches that I have created in order to illustrate to hologram controls that is used within the first shot of the film like the dress designs above.