ENVIRONMENT DESIGN - Project 1

20/10/2023 - 1/12/2023 || Week 8 - Week 14
Foo Hui Xin || 0351665
Environment Design || Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Project 1- Exterior & Landscape Design

*thumbnail by Yvaan Feusi (Aiven)

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1 || Lectures

(All lectures in ENV DESIGN - Exercises)

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2 || Instruction

My world building prompt for environment design is:

Enchanted Forest | Peaceful setting | Medieval era | Fantasy genre | Celestial Motif

This is heavily inspired by Ellinia, an area in Maplestory

Fig 1.1, Ellinia

Fig 1.2, Moodboard

Moodboard consists of floating buildings and elven buildings. The elven buildings usually have the tips of their roofs pointy, so I want to include that aspect into my hero asset. I also want to make my hero asset feel 'magical'.

My Pinterest board also consists of inspirations that contributed to this project and the following ones after this.

Fig 1.3, Pinterest board pt1

Fig 1.3, Pinterest board pt2

Fig 1.3, Pinterest board pt3

Fig 1.3, Pinterest board pt4

Fig 1.3, Pinterest board pt5

Fig 2, Map 

The supporting building was drawn off referencing to another value painting in exercises.

Fig 3, Apothecary 

The hero asset building was drawn and refined following off the exercise/ world building value painting for the hero asset.

Fig 4.1, reference 

Fig 4.2, Hero asset

The first draft of hero asset is then changed into the one below.

Fig 4.3, 

I wanted a bigger asset because of the function of this building. The function of the building is to be a cathedral. I used the original tower as supporting buildings for the main. I thought of using the building Aincrad from the animation Sword Art Online as an inspiration.

Fig 4.4, Aincrad

Fig 4.5, Cleaning up lineart

For the colour palette, I wanted to translate a very fantasy and magical feel. 

Fig 5.1, Colour palette 1

Fig 5.2, Colour palette 2

Fig 5.3, Colour palette 3

Fig 6, Added value & applied different colour palette

Fig 7, Supporting towers refined lineart, added values & colour palette

Fig 8, Magic circle thingy

Since the buildings are round, it's a bit hard to get the perspective right, so I turned to blender to block out the building. Even though it's a 'block out' it took me way too long with many trial and errors because its a round building.

Fig 9, 1st failed attempt

For the second attempt, I first used the boolean modifier for the doors and windows in the walls, but then I found it to be not effective so I used the array modifier for a plane with cuts in it for the windows and doors.

Fig 10, 2nd attempt

Fig 10.1 

Fig 10.2 

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3 || Submission