Hi everyone.

First things first, let me introduce myself! I’m Márcia, a portuguese student (currently in Lisbon School of Design in Oporto) aspiring to be a 3D character artist. Let me just say that I hope we can all have fun in this challenge, meet new artists, learn new techniques and different workflows, specially with these "behind the scenes" posts! I've been reading all of them since the submissions started and I'm really enjoying your creative processes! 

When I read the theme, my first plan was to create a rendered scene with my character and I actually started to blockout and model a few things but later I realized that I wasn’t focusing on the most important part of my idea, which was the character design. Eventually I decided to step back and really work on my character. But since I have all my models and blockouts, I thought you would like to see the process of developing my concept.

My very first idea was that everything is connected. When I say everything, I mean Every Thing. I envisioned a world where we have holograms representing this connection and, with the power and magic of 5G, this connection indicates lots of interesting and informative stuff instantly! For example, an animal’s hologram would include: name, species, age, owners, level of feeding and hidration, overall feelings, among other things. Objects like furniture would include % of occupation, technology would have life-span, malfunctions or the level of energy being aqcuired from the sun, for example. Plants inform us of their level of hidration, % of grow and how long untill the next harvest. Weather, air traffic, UV levels, pollution levels, all available to us instantly. Living in this world would mean that if we were to go for a walk, we could see how people were feeling, what they would be needing in the moment, and so much more! We would look around and really analyze how everything is in that very instant. How cool would that be?

Eventually I decided to sleep on it and let it brew a little. My brain started having all those crazy visions of this society and I started writing everything down. For me, a 5G world represents a world where everything is solar powered, homes are smart designed and built - 3D printed and self-sustainable. Houses are capsule shaped buildings that can float and moved to wherever each owner feels like since the energy that powers these systems is renewable. Plus, in this society, humans cultivate the effort of taking care of the planet, we have green spaces everywhere and extinct animal species are now being recreated through robot prototypes. Humanity is slowly rebalancing the planet and global warming is now almost erradicated from scientist’s predictions.

In case anyone is curious, here is my process for the capsule model:

1) Grap a sphere and make a blob.

2) Make the blob less blobby.

3) Use ZSpheres for the building structure.

4) ZRemesh or retopologize everything and make it look decent (use creasing and subdivisions and you're good to go). 

And that’s it for my first brainstorms for the 5G world. See you soon with more 5G cool content! I'm excited to introduce you guys to my very own Agent of Change. In the meantime, I’ll be watching all the new posts as usual 😊