POST 4: Additional Ideas For Scenery

The concept of the trees as far are good but the scenery of the rainforest, it may seem a bit too normal. I have tools available to me that makes fantasy possible. Although I do not want to do something too fanatical, I want to have major realism too.

I remembered a beautiful documentary I watched a while ago called Home. It has some amazing scenery photography. Here are a few:

 

 
 

 No one can deny these shots of mother nature are stunning. The frozen rivers are described as being like "the veins in the body, the branches of a tree, the vessels of the sap that the water gave to the Earth."

The hot springs are called prismatic springs. They contain life's primitive forms of all plant life, Cyanobacteria or "green-blue algae." So from these springs, life ascended. Because of Cyanobacteria all of it's descendants changed the Earth's atmosphere through photosynthesis. Because of this delicately balanced atmosphere life created, more life was able to flourish.

It's stunning that the rich colors of the prismatic springs resembles the richness of life they bought to Earth. In fact it is also beautiful how the brown-orange streams follow out from the spring like the frozen lakes, "like branches of a tree."

This has come as quite an inspiration for my project. My trees are no longer jungle trees, they are prismatic trees. Ooohhhh.. I thought, if the prismatic springs gave life to the plants/trees it would look good to have my trees growing out from it. I want to use the colors of the brown-orange streams as the tree's bark. As the trees ascend upward the bark becomes a darker brown. I am not sure how this will fit into my narrative but aesthetically I think it is good conceptual development.

Sebastian