#tea project

[raccoon-the-nocturnal-sage]

This page is was an attempt in creating the main view of the setting. It was also a chance to create the texture for the props and background in general. I was pleased with the colour and texture. I just need to research a bit more into the art style to familiarize with it.  

[raccoon-the-nocturnal-sage]

My next task was to research and replicate the style for the Tea Project. We are going for a Fantasia theme and we are looking in the areas where team originate China and India. After a while I can say I prefer the lively movement of the Chinese art then the Bold lines in Indian art. 

[raccoon-the-nocturnal-sage]

These sketches were for the Tea Project, most of the the ideas were generic. Such as monster representing different teas. The top photo were sketches influence by the one of my team mates original character designs. 

[hermitsandwitches]

Brewing tea on Youtube

[meshy-mesh]

Finally something of my own, Momoka in formal dress. That outfit challenge is actually really good for practice! May finish this one, I really like how the dress looks. n_n

[aliceravezzani]

Check out total project on: https://www.behance.net/gallery/21624589/Tea-Infographic

[upendu]

[TechPeaks] Week #13

We have a great big news! I will move soon to Silicon Valley!! Thanks to the BEST program, we will have the opportunity to have a foot in the Valley and a foot in Italy. This is at the same time a huge chance and also a challenge. We will have to manage a team and run our business remotely, with two opposite time zones but we will for sure handle this!

Back to our duties, last week we spent few hours on our TEA project activities. TEA stands for Trentino Ecosystem Accelerator. Thanks to this program we have the possibility to give our expertise back to this territory. We are working on two different project.

One is called Barycentro, a social bar in Trento, very active in planning social and cultural events like debates, exhibitions, meetings. The task was related to the handmade world. Francesco worked together with other TechPeakers to prepare a lecture explaining the different tools used in the e-commerce in order to help little handmade producers to better promote themselves on internet.

Instead I'm working with the guys from Kickresume for a new home brewery brand called Maso Alto. Our task is the creation of a new website and four labels for their new beer line. They also have a Bed and Breakfast where they actually produce their tasty beer.

Maso Alto BnB

On Saturday we assisted to the famous and super exciting Feste Vigiliane dedicated to the patron saint of Trento, San Vigilio. The city was unrecognizable, full of people and music all night long!

One last unexpected episode. On Sunday, few TechPeakers and us went to Levico Lake to enjoy the afternoon, but... during the "diving session" I had the bad idea to do a not-so-successful front flip from a 6-meters-tall platform.

And this was the result:

At least at the hospital we had the possibility to work..

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[nicolemawby]

The Japanese tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha, powdered green tea. In Japanese, it is called chanoyu (茶の湯) or sadō, chadō (茶道). The manner in which it is performed, or the art of its performance, is called otemae (お手前; お点前). Zen Buddhism was a primary influence in the development of the tea ceremony. Tea gatherings are classified as chakai (茶会) or chaji (茶事). A chakai is a relatively simple course of hospitality that includes confections, thin tea (薄茶 usucha), and perhaps a light meal. A chaji is a much more formal gathering, usually including a full-course kaiseki meal followed by confections, thick tea (濃茶 koicha), and thin tea. A chaji can last up to four hours. Chabana (茶花) is the simple style of flower arrangement used in tea ceremony. Chabana has its roots in ikebana, an older style of Japanese flower arranging, which itself has roots in Shinto and Buddhism. Chabana evolved from the “free-form” style of ikebana called nageire (投げ入れ), literally “throw (it) in”, which was used by early tea masters. Chabana is said, depending upon the source, to have been either developed or championed by Sen no Rikyū. He is said to have taught that chabana should give the viewer the same impression that those flowers naturally would give if they were [still] growing outdoors, in nature. Chabana arrangements are so simple that frequently no more than a single blossom is used; this blossom will invariably lean towards or face the guests.