Pupillary | Environments
Port De Lacrima | Inspired by the shape of a teardrop in contact with dissipation, the port is a gate to another realm, nested in a valley of alienesque landforms, it serves as the key method of transport in this eccentric city.
Tearduct Viewport (tear + viaduct) is the city where The Pupil calls home, situated on the planet of Lapillipi. It is a city that takes culture and tradition very seriously.
“In a dying universe, an aloof master comes across a religious child who has been revered as a goddess by her people.”
“The master serves the universe, to ensure that it can die smoothly, whereas the child, who has become his pupil, is filled with boundless hope of restoring the world to its original state. Could the two characters, from drastically different backgrounds, coexist, or even more so, learn from each other?”
Pupillary is the IP project I had the liberty to create during my last semester in The One Academy. For this project, I was deeply moved and inspired by Rose-Lynn Fisher's microscopic photography series - "The Topography of Tears", which explored the beautiful crystalised structures of tears under the microscope. I thought to myself, "What if there were a universe within our tears?" after seeing the microscopic images, which resembled the branches that formed the cosmic web all around us. Hence, the world of Pupillary was born.
The art direction of Pupillary takes inspiration from the visuals of microscopic photos of tears, creating branching spirals and mesmerising shapes is a must in every design. The idea of small to big is also there, imagine things that we don't usually see with our naked eye, becoming huge motifs and environments.