SpaceTime 2023: Third Place

SpaceTime 2022: Third Place
Title: 
The Gears of Time
Artist (Student Name): 
Nina Jeffries-El
Instructor: 
Ms. Miyoung Min
School: 
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ
Artist’s Statement: 
Inspired by the 50 year Anniversary Theme of SIGGRAPH I wanted to focus on the time aspect of this anniversary. I decided to focus on this by showing the mechanical aspects behind a clock, and how the gears put together the entire mechanism. I highlighted a large clock in the center to be the “moon” of this gear constellation. Because the name of the competition is the SpaceTime Competition, I decided to set my gears in a “space like” background and create a connected constellation.
Technical Statement: 
For my illustration I used illustrator and photoshop to create the different gears. I created my initial sketch in photoshop, and transitioned to illustrator to flesh out my ideas. I mainly used the pen tool to create the different shapes that made up the main clock, and used the brush tool for some of the background details. In illustrator I used different shapes to create the stars in the constellation and changed the colors.