Seed of South Center (2015)
South Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
Commercial, Retail, Plaza
The Seed, or Seed of South Center, is an elevated shopping center in South Macon Georgia. For those of you native to this area, it's where South Plaza currently is, you know, where Roses Discount is located. The shopping center is more advanced compared to the ones currently in the area. I wanted to design something abnormal and foreign to the area, I know, because I spent my early childhood in the district. In Atlanta, I've seen weird to weird shopping centers, and I wanted to take a souvenir back to town. The building, with the orange material coded on it, is the main entrance. Inside is the stairs (or escalator) and elevator that takes you to the shopping center. The shopping center is barely accessible from the outside, except via the major anchor and minor anchors on the opposite end. About the natural aspect of this, I placed tree's also inside the shopping center. I still wanted to give it that environmental view. Despite the fact that it's lifted off ground, it also feels like your on ground level due to the grass and trees being visible. It would be more confusing to leave the parking deck, go up the stairs, and see grass and trees.
The stairs in this picture above take you to the shopping center. The stairs/elevator kiosk are placed twice throughout the shopping center. There is also the escalators near the stairs inside. Notice, I did use an excessive amount of orange.
Sephora is on the minor anchors. It's the only real brand I placed. The major anchor and other minor anchor are just random locations. CCL, the minor anchor next to it, is just made-up. Sephora is also a French-based retail company.
I was hoping to place a book store and coffee joint in the Books & More center. This is also a good view of the roundabout that I placed in the center. You've also seen the cladding. The gold-orange cladding is just the new look for the plaza. To your very right, One of the elevation kiosk, you saw earlier, is visible.
I was careless of the anchor in this project, so I just randomly named the anchor, Anchor Store, the most boring title to call an anchor unless it's just a tenant, almost like calling an abnormal show, Regular Show from Cartoon Network. This is the internal shopping center entrance.
This is a CGI Thea Rendering of the main entrance. I have the parking lot shaded out so it would look like it's closed up. You can see through it, still.
This is just a Birds Eye view of the Shopping Center. The road below is Pio Nono Avenue and intersection to the parking lot currently exist.
These are just the sides of the Shopping Center. The East and the west. You can see the gray material that I have placed in the middle of each side of the mall, just to give it a complex look.
Here is an Availability map. As you can see, this is just a map of where and what's available. Sephora is the only logo on. My goal is focused on just the shopping center, not to place brands. So, I really don't care about what moves in. The anchor might be okay to house the current anchor of the shopping center located in the area, right now, Roses Discount, but it's just there to be there.
Just an ariel glimpse of what the shopping center looks like. It looks the internal part of the shopping center is on the ground, but someone will realize the parking deck is below and they have to go up stairs, elevator, or climb up, just to be in the shopping center.
Seed of South Center is just down the avenue from the Publix and Einsteins Bagel Bros, I designed earlier, to tie the connection, Dairy Queen Building #1 would be located just a few buildings down. Revitalization is what I'm going for.
Media Center (2015)
Setting:South Carolina
Unofficial Disney Story
Character Design, Background Design, Fantasy
Meet Valirah, A 20 year old know-it-all who believes in imagination. She works at a library, or media center, and spends most of her time writing fantasy and mythology. She also studies overseas myths, biblical stories, along with scanning poems her mother wrote as well. The picture above is a more rendered out picture of Valirah done in Photoshop. I fell into the idea of pretending to do a Disney Princess. If Valirah were really a Disney Princess, She'd become the second non-legitimate princess (Mulan being the first) and she'd become the first biracial princess. She doesn't have friends growing up so she imagines and daydreams all the time. She also lacks interest in what most females would be in the media, she's not a fashion type, and she envy's when other girls talk about attractive men. But mostly, she writes in her book and it replies back to Valirah in write text. The media center is like her home.
This is a face expression image of Valirah. Normally, when you design characters, you have to show different expressions and different sides of the character, which I have done below. To be more detailed into the character, like the buildings, I did the Front, Side, and 3/4.
These are just drawings of Valirah's actions and her poses. You can see that she's intelligent, envious, and also depressed sometimes when she dreams of having that crown.
About the princess subject, What makes Valirah special to me is that she dreams of it, and she's not even someone who is physical or action, but she's just an average nerd who works at a library. This is contemporary to other Disney Princesses.
This is Emmett Underbanks, but he goes by Teal. He's a child-looking 21 year old college student who is also a know-it-all. He likes non-fiction and loves video games. He also grew up with the green hand-me-down dictionary.
Valirah falls for Teal, and yeah, look at the picture above and you can see the strange relationship these two have. But, In the body of the story, the two will experience imagination coming to life by stating this one quote.
"If life can't
do....Then I will say...."
All they have to do for example is say with absolutely NO doubt "If life can't turn the White House gold, Then I will say it's gold." The president is going to get a LOT of visitors. Having a house that's completely gold. Anyone can say the quote, but only those with faith can actually make it true. Valirah and Teal have a lot of fun with this.
I've done five background pictures.
Picture 1 is the outside view along the shore. The large building on the right (you can see the large windows easily) is the library Valirah works at. This image above, I did on Adobe Photoshop. Below are just images of the inside. There are no books nor any desk etc in these pictures. I wanted to only focus more on the building in general. I wanted to give it a very polished look, I might've made it too polished. On Maya Autodesk, I designed the inside and took four rendered pictures of it. In the shelves, of course, are where the books should be, and on the balcony is where desk should be along with Apple Macs and PC's on them.
This is the first building render that I have done with Maya Autodesk. This is also the third interior that I have done (People Eating Salt and Sony Store being the first two)
Picture 2
Picture 3
Picture 4
Picture 5
So, Basically, I am pretending as though I have designed this movie called 'Media Center' which is about Valirah spending her time at the Media Center, and once she meets Teal, The two have an unease way of getting along. When a strange figure on shore tells Valirah this quote "If life can't do....", She starts to used it and it works. She then proves it to Teal. He believes her immediately and participates in her imagination thrills such as seeing mermaids with the head of the Statue of Liberty swimming out of the ocean, Raining Skittles candy during Civil War, and the biggest mistake the two must fix.....Making all of the Books fly out of the Media Center. Once that happens, the quote stops working.
Just Imagine...
Why not? I do it on this Blogger page.
Dairy Queen-Grill & Chill (2015)
1. South Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
2. East Dunwoody, Georgia, U.S.A.
3. West Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
Commercial, Eatery
So, This is more complex than my recent projects. I have fallen into the interest of matching art. When it comes to buildings that look alike, It sounds very awesome, so I decided to try out this idea. Dairy Queen is my first choice, because I decided to start low. So, I designed three approximate similar buildings of the ice cream parlor in the state of Georgia. There are differences, but I want to have the image look-alike. Store 1 is in South Macon in the location where I designed Publix and Einsteins earlier, Store 2 is in East Dunwoody above Atlanta, Store 3 is in West Macon on the lot where a Dairy Queen currently is. I've done Thea Renderings of all three of them, and also floor plans, sides, and the site location. The style, in general, is Gothic with this castle appearance. I used brick, fire stone, and also different colors of cladding, not to mention, the colors(either plastic or metal). I have named this style of Dairy Queen, The Gloomy Church Style.
This building also has a cursive logo on the red band in the arch. The logo, along with the 'live a little' catchphrase, was by graphic designer, Edrea Lita. To visit and see, click here.
The picture above is DQ Store 1 in South Macon.
The picture above is DQ Store 2 in East Dunwoody.
The picture above is DQ Store 3 in West Macon.
Just in case you can't tell the differences, I placed the sides on all three of the stores. Right, Left, Front, and Rear. It's like Hocus Pocus except with exterior design. The floor plans, below, also vary depending on the store. Be sure to remember which is which!
The picture above shows the sites of each store. These are just to show the location. You can also see the current official logo by Lita's logo.
