To my Digital Design class, there was a Proffesor working at the back of the room who saw it and went nuts. He asked more questions about the project than my classmates did. A couple of weeks later this Proffesor, Dennis Lisonbee, approached me about a short documentary he was working on with a BYU Proffesor about some ruins in Mexico. Garth Norman has made a life's study around Izapa Mexico. There is significant evidence that the Mayan Calendars were all refined and organised here. This place has special alignments, places where 3 or more monuments and mounds line up with various zeniths, equinoxes and seasonal events. I have spent much of my spare time over the last 4 months reproducing this place in detail, right down to the topography for use in a short documentary.
I know know more than I ever thought I would about Mayan/Olmec cultures. There is a potential that through this short documentary I could get more similar work. I really like this Digital Archeology thing. Following are a few of my renders from this project that I use with permission.
Stela 8, 9 and 10 on the front of mound 30
Stela 5, the "Tree of Life" Stela
Stela 5 detail, upper portion of the "Tree of Life"
Zenith Sunrise
Central Alignment (left) and Plaza B (right)
3 comments:
Very cool!
Nice job! I'd want to visit the place after seeing the documentary.
The professor I had for my Mayan Art and Culture class at BYU told us about a couple people who earned the MacArthur award and one of them was an artist who draws Stela by hand. You might have just accidentally gotten in on the next big thing in Mayan Archeology.
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