Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Exercise 3 - Prison & Toontown images comparison

A prison is a  stern and menacing looking place, therefore the lines and angles of the buildings must not be too fanciful and attractive. These pillars and corners are straight and sharp with no fanciful forms at all. This form of buildings will allow people to see them as a powerful and scary looking place at first sight. 

WHEREAS

Toontown is a  place for the childlike enjoyment and relaxation. The design and construction of the buildings have to appeal to the children, therefore the pillars are made rounder and thicker than the ones in the prison images. The form of the buildings are also made cartoon-like by altering their form.

Instead of having straight form like a cuboid, they modified it by sort of squeezing them inwards. All the forms of the buildings are changed to fit the cartoon theme by making them rounder, fatter, squeezing them, adding more bulging shapes. Instead of sharp corner and edges, they are made round. Imaging Toontown with building forms like the prison, I'm sure nobody would ever visit there anymore.


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