Ash's Media Design: Materiality Exploration #241

I wanted to look at a large amount of textures close together to see how they look next to each other. I am particularly interested in the water type textures and the scratched metal type textures. I think they work well together. However I like the colour of the fire textures. In Patricia Piccini's work Swell she uses the water form to look at motion, which is where I got the idea to use water as a texture. I also think that without a horizon line and on an animated model the ability to pick that the texture is from an ocean will be taken away leaving an interesting texture for my object. The oranges and reds I like about fire came from her Vespa works however have lost their smoothness and sleek feel which I quite like. I decided to have a look at metallic textures because of the Bronze works Piccini did. Instead of looking at bronze or gold looking metals I was more interested in silvery metals, I looked at smooth ones but I decided that the scratched metals were more appealing as they had more of a story. However as much as i'd like to do scratched metal I might not be able to animate these textures so I might use a smooth metal instead.

Images from:

http://www.designyourway.net/diverse/water/Water_Texture_by_Wisdoms_Pe.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2050/2456614033_e1123aa56e.jpg

http://www.littleboxofideas.com/images/blog/resources/155_bokeh_textures/

bokeh_texture08.jpg

http://www.freefoto.com/images/33/15/33_15_10---Fire-Flame-Texture_web.jpg

http://wahibgallery.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/textures-metal-on-vision-gallery-9.jpg

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs16/f/2007/198/c/1/metal_texture_1_by_wojtar_stock.jpg

http://blueblots.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/brushed-metal.jpg

http://blog.inkd.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/WarehouseMetal.JPG

http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20100518/Ice-Texture-1543183.jpg

http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20090814/Natural-Ice-Texture-1296854.jpg