Beautiful Crime
“Beautiful Crime” is a modeling project centered around bringing music to a physical form. Based on Elinor Fuchs “EF’s Visit to a Small Planet,” this project focused on building a world and setting outside of an individual perspective and instead from a grander world view.
Song Selection
Each step I left behind
Each road you know is mine
Walking on a line ten stories high
Say you'll still be by my side
If I could take your hand, oh
If you could understand
That I can barely breathe, the air is thin
I fear the fall and where we'll land
We fight every night for something
When the sun sets we're both the same
Half in the shadows
Half burned in the flames
We can't look back for nothing
Take what you need, say your goodbyes
I gave you everything
And it's a beautiful crime
Each breath I left behind
Each breath you take is mine
Walking on a line ten stories high
Fear a fall, you're asking why
Beautiful Crime by Tamer
Leaving the things we lost, oh
Leaving the ones we've crossed
I have to make an end so we begin
To save my soul at any cost
We fight every night for something
When the sun sets we're both the same
Half in the shadows
Half burned in flames
We can't look back for nothing
Take what you need, say your goodbyes
I gave you everything
This darkness is the light
This darkness is the light
We fight every night for something
When the sun sets we're both the same
Half in the shadows
Half burned in flames
We can't look back for nothing
Take what you need, say your goodbyes
I gave you everything
And it's a beautiful crime
2 min Thumbnail Ideations
Initial concepts based on the song lyrics and visual research.
10 Minute Paper Drafts
Each design pulls different elements from the initial sketches.
Scale Components
Designed on Vectorworks and colored through Photoshop.
Backdrop and drop curtain intentionally blurred to create an extreme depth effect.
Required image backdrop credits to G. Liulian for their piece “Overlooking”