Tibetan Buddhist Culture

A necessary trip to the Indian Embassy at Edinburgh ended in a day-trip around the tourist spot as well. So, we went to the National Museum of Scotland. I cam across a section that was devoted to Buddhist Tibetan Culture. Since, Sheng's film is based on a love story in a Tibetan Monastery, I turned this visit into research. I took some pictures of the Prayer wheels installed there.

 After going through the description, I understood the importance of the prayer-wheel in Buddhism and its true essence.

I have already made the prayer wheels. However, i would like to remodel them to look somewhat like this. I want my models to look as realistic as possible.

This might be helpful for the texturing of the prayer-wheel.

The different details and carvings around the Prayer-wheel station that are part of the Tibetan culture. 

There was also a place where we could make a prayer-flag. I made a Prayer Flag too. Below is a video that was at the museum describing every bit that goes in the making of a Prayer-wheel and also its importance in Buddhism.

Prayer-wheel

Sheng's Concept Art

Sheng wanted a second set of prayer wheels that were different from the ones that I had made earlier. So, based on her concept and reference images I modeled this new Prayer- wheel station.

 

Reference Image

Once for a whole day!

Sheng's personal project required a 3D Artist as she is more into 2D Animations. The title of the animation is Once for a whole day. It is based on a Tibetian Love Poem that Sheng wanted to visualise. The first thing that she required was a prayer wheel mostly found in Buddhist Monasteries. She sent me some reference images and I modeled according to them.

 Reference Image 1 

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Modeling