Insectoids! xD

Insectoids, 2 week Uni assignment!

I really enjoy working on character design which makes this exciting for me xD.

First I created a mood board about insects...
Yea... xD
It helped me figure out the approach I can take with human like insect forms.

Insects parts of the body are fundamentally  different in the way their bodies join together.
This means that to make the Insectoid character
I need to look how to change the human body connects.

For the first part of the design I want to find a form I would like to work to the end.

Here everything is rough... I just want to get the proportions of the character down and create an
interesting silhouette.

Each sketch took about 30 seconds... pretty much doodling xD...

Kinda run out of space on the previous canvas xD so I moved on to the next one...

On the first one I already had some good Ideas with context... but I still wanted to explore more.
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Out of the initial Ideas I picked out 3 that I liked the most :D

I blocked in their shape so I can just work around it to create a gray-scale painting..

I will pick out 1 of them and add colour to it as well as orthographic views of front side and back.
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I decided to develop the one on the left as my final character design.
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Concept Art - Runic Valley

Inspired by Feng Zhu style of painting.

Still far from being good...

First I drew a Line art to make sure the composition of the painting is correct and that I like the overall feel of the scene.

I then painted over the line drawing fixing the perspective. and adding more details that were not on the line drawing.

I also added a village between the fore ground and background to improve the scale comparison between the objects.

Final Piece: After the initial painting I just went and detailed out the whole scene focusing on the values of the piece.

Storyboard Game Level

Life Drawing 12/11 INNNKK!!!!

Ink Yea I actually enjoyed that Life DRawing session xD
INK MORE PLS xD

1 Point Perspective

I'm used to basic perspective grids, I look allot through Scott Robertson's book How to Draw book.

I decided to expand the task by exploring what kind of one perspective I want to make..


I decided to go with the village over canyon as its one of the easier pieces to do one point perspective on as the canyon can go beyond the horizon.

I added colour to help establish where the rocks point to.

My Game Level

This is the first part of the level for my "Game"
Plan:

-Main character starts of in the accommodation.
- When he leaves the accommodation after 5 sec alarm triggers which locks down the area.
- Main character doesn't want to just stand still and wait for explanation so he decides to look for a way around the lock down
- Finds the hatch
-Walks down the ladder
-Jumps over obstacles
- Picks up a Wrench
-Proceeds towards end of the level
-Hears a conversation through a ventilation shaft
-Proceeds to the exit.






More Detailed Map of the level:

 


Video of the Level:
(the objects placed are just representations of objects that would go in to those positions )


Small differences from the initial plan regarding the layout and size of certain objects
and rooms. As I wanted the house of the character to feel really cramped/small , to signify
that he lives in the poor part of the station.

Halloween ! Monster !

The theme for this weeks design is Monster,
as Halloween is near.

<<<<<<  MONSTERS!

I didn't know where to start with the monster.
One of the things that I had in mind was that
it should be humanoid.

So it begun...
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I really liked the feel of the Wraith like female
monster, so I decided to develop it further by
joining the two female sketches into a final
outcome.

After the optional session with Jack Eaves I decided to work more over my final
presentation of the Wraith and remove most of the line art. The final result: