Motivation
The concept for the image went through various iterations (which can be seen below), although always keeping the theme of connection between beings. In the first concept, many ladybugs would gather arrround a Mandelbulb fractal, as if entranced by it, and connected by it. The image, however, did not work visually. We kept the theme of connection, but we reduced the number of ladybugs. Instead of showing a connection between them, we show them in different places, with one drifting though a lake.
Early concept, rendered with the Cycles engine in Blender 3D.
Why ladybugs?
As seen below in the "Inspiration" section, ladybugs can be very very pretty.
And one more thing
All 3D models were modeled by the group. Some third party images were used for some textures. The list of sources can be found in the project, in assets/sources.txt.
