More Concept Art and Media Tests

Here we have another concept in development, for the study. I wanted a very gloomy, depressing mood, to capture the idea of the player character choosing to live in melancholy isolation.

I also did some media tests in UDK recently, namely re-visiting god-rays (about time!) and trying out sky-domes. These were both surprisingly easy in UDK, god rays especially when compared to all the trouble I had trying to achieve the same effect in maya.

I took the time to get acquainted with the options for the light, and had a bit of a play around with changing the colour, increasing the intensity of the god rays, and the brightness of the illumination etc.

  

Obviously the above looks a little weird considering the sky texture used, but i certainly plan on having a warm glowing light like this in the garden at the beginning of my project.

Concept improvement

This will be a pretty short post to say that this is the final version of the bedroom concept I began over the holidays. It's gotten a lot darker which I think helps emphasise the light and colour. Another thing to note is that originally i did not intend to have the plaster walls and wooden floor so old and worn, but I had an idea to show the passage of time in the symbolic journey by having the later rooms become more worn out and not well maintained. The bell-tower and entrance concepts already fits this idea quite nicely, and I dont imagine the study concept will cause many problems in continuing this plan.

The deadline is approaching fast and I'm still unfortunately getting back into the swing of things quite slowly. I'm hoping to get the study concept finished by the start of next week, and hopefully have enough time to do some more media tests and sketching. On a positive note, I can feel myself gaining more confidence in my photoshop ability, one of my personal goals for this year.