The Cost of Creation

This is a 3D model of a skeleton hand holding a chrysanthemum that I made for the Digital Media Arts Festival at UVU.

This piece is symbolic of life and death, and how life must feed on decay. The skeleton's hand holds up the flower, supporting it. It also holds it gently, as if cherishing the moment in which it gets to touch the beautiful thing. The hand is death, and the flower is life, and this model is meant to show that death and life are not so different. there is a cost to creation, and that is destruction

I created this using blender 3.0 and rendered using cycles. I started the modeling process with the hand. I found an anatomical drawing of hand bones, then imported it into blender. I modeled the individual pieces based on that drawing and then positioned them. I then modeled the pot, and dirt, as well as the flower. For the flower, I used a modifier to make it perfectly circular and symmetrical. Then I did the background, using a wave texture and bump modifier to simulate a sort of liquid. Finally, I did the lighting. I used a 3-point light system, with the key light being an off-white, yellow-like color, to give it a warm feel despite the dreary items.