DMA ART103 Solo Project proposal (For Steve)

So for my solo Final Project, I have decided to collaborate with a scale hobbyist friend of mine, Tom Marra. Essentially the project will work in the style of a commission; Tom has commissioned me to create a scale diorama for him as a personal addition to his collection, and since he believes in my talent as a sculptor he would like to collect one of my works as well.

SO the essential project will be a sci-fi diorama that Tom and I will design, and I will use my skills to try to create the product as close to the design as possible. Tom will be the chief designer, and I will be the producer. Our initial thoughts are to create a diorama of a mechanic that is performing maintenance repairs on its "Power-Suit," which are heavily inspired by real maintenance repairs done on fighter jets. For example:

This genre in scale modeling of "repair bay dioramas" is quite popular, yet extremely hard to successfully achieve, as it utilizes still life qualities and extensive modifications to achieve a believable and high quality look.

I will primarily document this project through pictures of the building process, as well as to show sketches of initial designs that will direct the path of the creation process. Due to Tom's professional career as a Google Web Developer, contact will primarily be in form of email and webcam chats, as he is a very busy person. But I respect his aspiration to become a better scale modeler, as it is a shared goal and I hope to impress him with my talents.

The final form of the project will marshall into a physical product for display. Tom and I have plans to enter the completed product into a scale modeling competition coming early December, so I can also showcase Digital photographs of the completed product in the competition setting.