We came up with an idea that we are going to make an diamond-like female statue, and place it on mountains. The statue can be a part of the mountain or it just lying on the ground.

We got this idea because we saw a sad news which happened in China, and it just came out recently but it is very shocking to us. It’s a mother of eight children who has been trafficked to an remote village, and she got locked up in there with a chain. I cannot believe that this happened in nowadays society. Then we thought we could create a female statue, and combine with some elements that indicates female.

Link to the news can be found here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60194080

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The Model

I did this female crystal statue in Maya. In the beginning, I had no idea how to make this kind of hard and flat surfaces. And then Nick told me that I could use Quad Draw Tool to draw the surfaces on a model.

First, Yuhang sculpted this female model in Zbrush. And I used this model to draw the surfaces. My first problem was that the surfaces I drew were too small and too dense, which increased the reflection and the model looked too messy in the render view. It’s always good to start from larger surfaces, and I can cut more surfaces later on. So I started all over again, this time I intended to draw larger surfaces. I tried to draw as irregular as possible. This tool is so easy to learn and so convenient. I can delete any edge or surface but it still keeps the faces together, so I don’t need to bridge or fill the hole.

Yuhang did some smoke effects to the bird cage. We abandoned the old idea which is to fill the cage with marine animals. The cage can be related to the mother in the news, it could be the symbol of no freedom.