building alliances: week 4

Planning, Concept Sketches & Powerpoint Work

This blog includes:

- Concept Artworks

- Work for Powerpoint

- Planning 

This week in class, our group continued to work on our concept sketches and thumbnails for different assets, as well as organising things for our PowerPoint presentation we would be doing in class on the 31st.

Concept Art Work

This week I have been focusing on creating more concept sketches for different Nottingham Landmarks and recognisable things from the city. We wanted to include different landmarks and things within our game, possibly sunken underwater within the cave systems in our game. I created a few basic sketches of different landmarks, starting with the lions outside of and the main features in the council building within Market Square. 

I created a normal sketch up on the Lion Statues from different angles as well as a more cracked and rotted version to show decay after being underwater for a long time. I took reference from Old statues and even statues left underwater to try and understand what they could possibly look like. I think i would like to create some coloured concepts of these before next week.

I also created some sketches of different features of the Council building in Market Square. I thought that redrawing the entire building and placing it inside a cave would be very unrealistic, but selecting certain smaller features of the building could work well. For example, pillars, clocks or spires. I used reference images and did some concept studies of what these features looked like.

 

I also created some sketch concepts of one of the bridges in Arboretum. While not a landmark, I thought this would pose a s a good reverence to base some underwater ruins off of. I drew up a normal version resembling the bridge currently and also a more withered away older version of it too. I think i would like to continue to experiment with this and possibly do some colour variants.

Organising Roles and Info for Powerpoint

For our powerpoint, we decided to organize out each of the topics/slides we needed to cover among our team and we would each be in charge of a certain section. Since I am the Research Leader, i am in charge of making the slides for our Research portion of the powerpoint.

To gather all our research together, we will be using our discord channel to share all our work amongst each other and distribute things into each others slides (research, concept art etc.).

Planned Meetings and Events

We also decided as a group to begin the plan meetings together weekly via discord. As well as this, we also planned a group trip to the Nottingham Caves to pose as a form of research for our group next Tuesday.