I have started to create my own composition for the hot air balloon festival assignment. I added different elements to see what would happen to the composition and to make it a bit more interesting. for now, I decided to go with the extra element of having sea animals in the sky. The idea of sea animals moving around in a different place than the sea is something I enjoy seeing very much. This idea started from the music video of Coldplay, in this video they have multiple sea animals going through the sky. It starts off with a sea turtle going through a subway station, and after that you see big whales going through the sky. I love the video for all its abnormalities and differences in sizes, see below images of these animals shown in the Coldplay Up & Up music video.
There is still a lot that I have to change, like the color is not matching with all the elements and I also want to add particles to the sea animals as they swim through the sky. The hot air balloons I use are the once I made during the Maya classes, everybody had to make one of these hot air balloons. I still plan on remaking this hot air balloon so I can look up better references and sketch my own hot air balloon. so looking at this image now I still have a lot to do to make is more like the way I want it to look.
This is the first sketch (layout) of how I want my hot air balloon festival to look. So the template is made out of 3 different sea animals swimming with the 3 hot air balloons in the sky. I also added an extra element in the back, this is a building that is supposed to get destroyed by the orca in the background. this is where I want to use the particles for to create a connection between the orca and the building. It is a video that I found that already had the building breaking now I only need to make it so the timing is right and recoiler it to fit the rest. also, the building looks a bit lonely by itself so I feel the need to add extra buildings so it will look more like a city.