I found it very hard using the 3ds max software at first and found my self repeating some of the steps because I had created what I wanted by wasn't quite sure on how I had achieved it so I alot of my time in the first three weeks I did not really producing anything for my final piece, but spent my time playing with the program and trying to famililarize myself with each different process. Have spent some weeks practising, I felt more confident in making things that I want to appear in my Lair. I created many different objects from glass bottles and flasks in the Lab, to more unusual machines in the Joker cave. The inspiration for my machines were from children's toys like spinning tops and sand timers, combined with electrical equipment and what future technology might look like, such as laser guns and teleportation machines.

I have set my filming of the lair as a high widescreen angle to give it a look of being watched through on one of batman flying, spying gadgets. I also added some batman music to my film created by Danny Elfman.

I really enjoyed making this project, at first I found the software very hard to understand, but interesting at the same time as I developed understanding of how it works. I gained confidence when practising with the software and I feel I managed to create a interesting interpretation of what the Joker's lair could look like if it actually existed.

The Joker Cave

The Lab

The prison

The Meetings Room.

for the layout of my lair I created four rooms that lead of each other, as I felt that the joker's lair was likely to be underground in the centre of Gotham city. As it was going to be set underground each room is rather small and has a chrostophobic feeling almost like a padded cell in an insane asyleme. The four rooms I created are a meetings room, to talk about getting batman and ruining Gotham city. A prison cell, for capturing and killing his prisoners in. A lab were he creates and works on his new plans, and his own version of the batcave.... the jokercave. This is were he keeps all his inventions and his supercomputer!!! I decided against having any living quarters in my lair as the joker probably doesn't eat or sleep, but probably takes some medication that he has created in his lab.

The joker has Throughout his comic book appearances been portrayed as a master criminal whose characterization has varied from that of a violent psychopath to a goofy trickster-thief. Whilst creating my lair for the joker I thought about what would the joker would need in his lair? and what would it look like? I took inspiration from the DC comic strips and also the batman films and cartoons. One of the most important parts of his character is he is a insane trickster who is symbolised by the the image of the joker card in a pack of playing cards. He has also been compared to a clown and in many films and cartoons his servant's wear clown masks or clothes. From these two main inspiration points I created my lair with bright playful colours and created some of my own imagery in photoshop and illustrator that depicted jokers and clowns. I used these images as wall coverings, secret doorways and posters as I felt that the joker would cover his own surroundings in images of himself as he feels that he is the only important person in the whole world. Creating these drawings gave the look of the lair a cartoon look, so i worked with it by using more bright clashing colours.

Villains Lair!!!

After researching into the idea of a villains/superhero's lair, I decided to create a villains lair rather than a superhero's as a found out that a villains lairs were more interesting as they showed their personality and in most cases their insanity for wanting to take over the world. I looked at various different villains lairs from Syndromes remote tropical island, in the Incredibles, with its 1950's look at the future of design, superman's enemy Lex Luthors Opulent Mansion to Dracula's Gothic Castle. In the end i decided to create the Joker's Lair. I choose BatMan's number one arch enemy because unlike many super villains, he's not crazy he's completely insane, so because of this factor it would give me as much freedom to design my lair in any way I felt would match his insanity.

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