Massey/Weta Master of Design Blog - Chris Sutton - 2021

 May 12 - 18 May: Weta Presentation Feedback - Things to change, adapt and improve  Overview On May 11, Jack, Mona and I gave our first presentation about our respective projects. All the presentations went fairly well and we all got very good feedback on our ideas and projects. Now the aim is to review the feedback we were given, continue with the research and start implementing the feedback and research into a concept art process.  Most of the feedback I received encouraged me to push the work a bit farther, past the stereotypical Victorian steampunk aesthetic and try make something new. Feedback  How can you make steampunk new? It has been done before, so why would an audience want to watch it rather than an old IP? What is the hook? Break down steampunk? What makes it a genre? How can you use that? How can you change that? Give and take: societal values - How can they change and flux? How do they develop? Why might someone hold a set of values to begin with?...

 April 28 - May 11: Writing the Arohaehae (Presentation) 3 Project Pillars Giant creatures (Fuamh) Environmentalism/ Anti-consumerism  Steampunk/Dieselpunk  Steampunk References James Lopez Hullabaloo:  https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesLopezAnimationInc/videos http://www.hullabaloo-movie.com/ The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Retrieved from: https://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Xp12RPAYgrIC&oi=fnd&pg=PT10&dq=Steampunk&ots=FSOfymswu1&sig=Tw7JJBfR4hAd7I1pAgBdnCjYlqg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Steampunk&f=false Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology, Retrieved from: https://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=uVxw7lHJWaEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=Steampunk+as+history&ots=__MhZ_yb5d&sig=7ZzG3hO0zfnvHDTV6JvZ63N8Htg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Steampunk%20as%20history&f=false Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian And A Futurist Journey T...