New visual for
Narnia- I realised I'd done lots of concepts for plants but hadn’t done any of
rock formations or natural landscape designs, so I created this image. It shows
Aslan in the bottom right hand corner singing (as described in the book), but I
have added cogs to the scene as if they are forming from his words, and the
floating away to their destination.
I printed this image on the Uni printers and it came out really well, almost perfectly matching the on screen colours so I'm quite pleased. We have started laying out the book this week and this image will be in as a large fold out page for maximum impact.
One of the scenes
I am designing for is The Garden. This is where the tree from my previous blog
post is situated and where Digory plucks a magic apple for Aslan. The Gate has
a fairly basic description in the book, just as being Gold, with silver writing
on it and surrounded by a wall made of turf. This Concept visual is to
represent that gate.
This is a
rendering of the Tree in the Garden where Polly and Digory have to go and
collect a magic apple for Aslan. In the book the description of this tree is
quite basic so it left me quite a lot design space to play with. The book does
describe the other trees in the garden as being “not only green but also blue
and silver”, so I adapted this for the central tree and made it purple, green
and silver- this makes it stand out a bit more showing it to be more important.
This is our
invitation for the Expo- keeping with the Cog theme we tried to make it look
like an old Victorian ticket.
Bastion, in the
words of its creators Supergiant Games, is “an original action role-playing
game set in a lush imaginative world” (http://supergiantgames.com/?page_id=242)
I really like the
visual look of this game; it’s like a moving digital painting. I can see a
similar style of illustration in some of my own renderings. The use of colour
in the game is effective also to enhance the fantasy element. I like the use of
the isometric style view point- this would be a good way of drawing our map for
the Magicians Nephew- the simplified perspective makes it easier to draw and
easier to read.
I think it would
be a good Idea for myself and Hannah to incorporate some bolder character and
set combination illustrations as at the moment they two aspects are quite separate
in our designs, some beautifully visualised imagery of a character in an
environment might help us tie the two aspects together.
I particularly
like this image as it seems to bring elements from all the environments within
the game into a single representational image- at a glance it shows all the environments.
Id quite like to produce something like this but it will have to wait till the
end, as I still haven’t designed all the environments yet.
All images from http://supergiantgames.com/?page_id=242
Render number
two, this is slightly more what I envisioned in my head but I still don’t think
its right- yes it shows the look but it doesn’t quite feel like it’s giving
enough information. I might do some tree concepts to try and explain the Idea a
bit more; this would help give a wider picture of the whole design...I’m conscious
that I'm running out of time though so it may have to do.
I’ve finally
started designing the Wood between the Worlds... only slightly behind schedule.
I started by sketching the design out then running it through Photoshop. It
proved very difficult to render and I got quite frustrated with it, and almost
gave in to despair! But then I tried a different rendering style using a little
bit of photo collage to create a different look, resulting in this...
It’s not really
what I want but as an image I think it looks quite nice and dynamic so I’ve
kept it as some development work. Now I have to try and render it how I want it
to look...however that may be.
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