Starting to pencil in some rough ideas for the apple tree for the Firebird ballet design. I was referencing natural apple trees but have decided to go for something more stylized visually. Also because of the construction, if I was to build any set piece this would be on a single plane rather than branches shooting off from the core (truck) at 360 degrees in every direction that would just take far too much performance area up on stage.
Using the Fibonacci Spiral as a key direction to develop the movement of the design
Another pencil render of the proposed tree edited in Photoshop to meat the design out a bit more and add colour
I really wanted to add some more theatrical production to the designs. One of the good things from a design point with Firebird is that it's a mix of ballet and silent theatre. Here I'm playing with the idea of having like mime performance artists who would be fused (not literally) with parts of the set prop construction. They would be blended into the design with costume and body paint to represent what they are interacting with so here it would be wooden tree bark, their limbs fusing into the tree truck and perhaps adding some form of sensual movements in the back ground as a further back drop to the ballet performance itself.
Painting a Fibonacci Spiral to use in Photoshop to work on a scenic back drop.
One of the more finalized ideas for the opening scene of the ballet production. The Firebird dancing around the Tsar Apple tree in the Royal garden.
Nice work !
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