Human Hybridisation Project Presentation

8/6/2019 Human Hybridisation Project Presentation

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Human Hybrids


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I started off with the concept of human

evolution and the diversity of mammals

Originally I looked at

theories of future

evolution such as H.G.Wells The Time Machine


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What would happen to humankind over

generations with the effects of changing

environment, species extinction or symbiosis

with technology?


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What would happen if humans left Earth and

the effects of zero gravity, different

planetary environments or radiation


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This led me to the research in human DNA

mutation of the jaw muscle, allowing us to

develop larger brain cases.


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This muscle and bone mutation led me to think

about genetics and gene splicing of chicken

embryos to reincarnate dinosaurs.


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As mammals all descend from a common

ancestor, we share a lot of information with

other mammals. We all have the same skeletal

and muscular structure, just arranged and

scaled differently


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For my research I looked at both human and

animal bone and muscle structure, and the

transitional phases of human evolution from

apes. Such as in the Science Museum, Natural

History museum London and Museum of natural

History New York


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What if we could gene splice our DNA with

that of other mammals, adopting and tailoring

features that make them well adapted to their

environments

What makes mammals

well adapted & how

would human hybrids

adopt the bone and

muscle structure,

how would they move

and to what purpose

would they have

them for?


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This led me to think of the Olympic motto:

Citius, Altius, Fortius, translating as

faster, higher, stronger


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Higher Faster Stronger

Arms

Legs

Jaw/Skull

Gibbon/Bat

Throwing/

Climbing

MountainLion

Jumping

Cheetah/Horse

Running

Lion/Hyena/Rhino

Chewing

Giraffe

Dolphin

Swim/Punch

Bear/

Gorilla

Lifting


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Through further research I decided upon the

pronghorn antelope for faster, a gibbon for

higher and initially a bighorn sheep for

stronger.


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High VO2

Enlarged Rib

cage

Large Lungs

and Liver


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Ball and

socket

shoulderjoint

Long Arms


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*The bighorn sheep

would have been my

concept for stronger

thanks to its shockabsorbing skull

allowing it to walk

away from falling

from great heights.

However this

is more of a

survival

trait than

an athletic

trait


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The skeleton I altered and cleaned from a

base mesh, took parts into ZBrush and

textured, and made the whole thing a custom

CAT rig that could be altered, reused and

animated easily, I used Di-O-Matic's Hercules

for the muscle objects to have them react in

a subtle way to the motion, contracting and

relaxing. For the elephant hybrid I worked

also with CAT's muscle system due to the

native structure suiting a more trunk-like

appearance. For this I also used Bones Pro

and Metabones for more accurate skinning

deformations.


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For the show I am planning to have life sized

vinyl prints of the 3 characters and 3D

printed models displayed in protective

casing. Alongside this I will have a screen

with the animations of the actions,

turntables, walk/run cycles along with the

research process behind the concept of the

project and the technical theory behind it.


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Human Hybridisation Project Presentation