Final Fantasy (2001)

I watched “Final Fantasy”.
The original idea is from a quite popular video game.
It was one of “box office bomb”, but personally I thought it was not bad work.
The CG quality is quite high, and the story is not so bad.
3D animation CG technology is now very popular, but it might have be generalized to pay money for CG animation works yet 7 years ago.

The story is interesting, but not easy to understand, and the ending is not happy. They might have been factors of the failure.
The director, Hironobu Sakaguchi, has a characteristic opinion about death, and it influences strongly this work.
I understood the massage of this film as the following:
Death of people who you love is a kind of losing, but it is not everything. It has other aspects and sometimes we need understand it as a positive thing.

How to develop my idea

I lost the way to develop my idea, and I talked with my tutor about my project.
He advised me to always ask myself about my project. The main questions he gave me are the following:

1. Existing Architecture – what gives you pleasure
2. Who do you want to design for
3. What for you is sacred

This method is very useful for making my idea and my problem clearer. He and I repeated this process a few times, and I reached a conclusion that my project should be a health center for a busy city. Next step is going to be researching about health center.

Our 2nd prject started.

At the end of January, our first project finished.
My evaluation was worse than I had expected.
We handed in just only final book for the evaluation, and my book was worse than my project itself, and I guess that is why I couldn’t get a good score.

I fulfilled with my work, but I feel I should improve my way.
Then since last week, our second project started.

I thought I tried to make a church or a more general “sacred” space, but the reactions of my tutors were not good, because it might be too difficult and too general.

I went back to start point and began to look for what my favorites are.
While I looked through my favorite buildings, I suddenly came up with an idea that honeycomb structures might be beautiful, so I checked how to make them and started making honeycomb models.