This project came around in about a month over a winter break. Rather than having a through concept, it was pieced together bit by bit through experimentation rather than with a specific goal in mind. I consider this my first successful project in 3D, and I feel that this project wears its inspiration on it's sleeve. Namely, I was immensely influenced at the time by the collaborative project, Awaken Akira by XiaoLin Zeng and Ash Thorp. I studied that project over and over as a bar for the quality I wanted to hit. In hindsight, I didn't have nearly enough experience to translate all that observation into something coherent, and I think that if I were to make this project again I'd draw from a wider basin of reference.

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