Environment Project

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Mockup/ layout model

This was created using a simple variation of simple shapes in maya as a plan for our environment

Once our group met up we managed to decide on our final idea being ruins on a small island. Here you can see the concepts I developed once we had our final idea.throughout the concepts you will notice a circular theme appearing this is because we are basing our project around king arthur and so we decided to carry over the knights of the round table theme

Concepts Sketches

Some concept sketches when the idea was still undefined.
These ideas revolved around a market place as it contained aspects of what everyone wanted and also gave me a specification to design to until we had set our final idea which we would be doing the following Monday when the group met up.

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Research: Books

While hunting for reference images on the web I decided I'd rather have something in front of me to work from then just a series of pictures on my laptop. so i picked up a book from £8 from Waterstones called Eyewitness: Castles, admittedly its a kids book but rather then just the buildings of that era it has images of tools, cutlery and gates used everyday all things that can make an environment look lived in. it also has images of statues and art from the era perfect for building concepts from.

Research: Other concept art

Being a fan of concept art a have many books for games and films.

Most relevant to this project would be my fable 2 art book

I think one of the things i choose this as one of my images to use in research was because of its use of scratchy lines yet this was one of the finalized concepts for the game, i think it also appealed to me as quite a lot of my concepts have a scratchy look about them. When looked at closely you can also see simplistic the detail is in the image yet is still gives the impression of detail by letting your brain filling the gap.

I also thought the to images at the bottom were relevant as the group wanted to animate the changing of seasons in our final project. i liked the way that you can show changing of season simply by changing the colour palette.

Obviously in my own concepts i wont try and copy the style but these are a few examples of similar concept art

This concept seemed more relevant to our theme as it shows the castle an entire town therefore setting the scene for other concepts to work evolve from.