April 23rd Update

Apologies for the lack of update last week, things are pretty hectic right now, I got the concept done, I got the concept done, I just couldn’t get around to posting an update. But luckily that means two concepts this week:

First up is the landmark of the Factory sector, the Smoke stack, the idea behind this one is that its at least twice the height of every other factory in the area, the smoke being pumped out by it will do well to help the mood in other areas too anytime I want things to look overcast.

 

The second is the Truth club in the Upper district, its owned by Indigo and this influenced a lot of the colours of this building, its a pretty important set piece so I wanted to make sure it looked lavish.

Anyway that’s it for this week, the progress list is as follows:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:6/15
  • Exteriors:39/39

March 19th Update

Ok, first of the landmarks, this week its the Argrows Shopping center:

For the most part I’m happy with this design, its an important location, there are a few things I need to tweak, for example it needs to show it can transform into a bomb shelter for civilians, but the shape and colour scheme I’m pretty happy with, I chose to use a blue-purple colour to make it stand out from the other buildings and a Red for the Logo to show a warning of the conflict which will happen there, luckily Red is a pretty common colour for Logos so it shouldn’t look too forbidding.

A huge inspiration for the protruding segments were based off of the Scottish Parliament of all places:

I Love this building design, I plan on taking a few different elements from it for different buildings  in the future.

These segments however were a bit awkward, so I decided to experiment with a another method of planning my concept art. I made a rough shape in 3D first and drew over it:

The finally product turned out well, but I’m very  glad I practised a lot doing perspective in 2D first, it made things like the pillars much easier to draw correctly.

Anyway that’s it for this week, the progress list is as follows:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:1/15
  • Exteriors:39/39

 

February 19th Update

Nearly done with the background buildings, this week the third last, Mining structures:

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

The Mining Sector of the city isn’t particularly dense compared to the rest of the city so chances are I’ll only be using each of these once, Also since Mana, the resource they extract is so important to the story, I felt they had to be striking to an extent. Which is why I decided to make these structures similar to the Bucket Wheel excavators used in coal production.

Its not clear in the image, but I added small wheels to each pillar, the intent is that each excavator is placed on rails over a borehole as a near permanent extractor. I also wanted a common colour scheme for the more industrial buildings in the city, so I took the colours from the warehouse district.

Anyway that’s it for this week, keeping it short again, the progress list is as follows:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:0/15
  • Exteriors:37/39

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

December 24th Update

Merry Christmas everyone! We have a second set of Dojo’s these week:

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

I tried to adapt last week’s design into a more detailed building, but I feel its missing something the last one had, I suspect I should have given the Roof a second layer, like in the Ikenobo Dojo I referenced last week

Other than the roof situation I’m actually pretty happy with this one, I think it’ll fit well when I’m constructing the city proper

Other than that, I’ll be taking a much needed break over the Christmas, but I will do another “Year in review” posts on new years day, I find looking back on what I’ve done and reminding myself how much I’ve actually produced to be very motivating, it can get demoralising when I still see how much I have to do, but I’m over half way with all this concept art and I’m proud that I’ve been able to keep going through out the year.

Anyway, here is this week’s Update list:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:0/15
  • Exteriors:32/39

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

November 28th Update

A little late this week, but here is the second skyscraper for the Altherkin business district:

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

I’m steadily working up the detail in these buildings, the hollowing out of the top is something I’ve been trying to figure out for a while, I think for the most part I’ve gotten it correctly, but the shading might need work.

Other than that I need to point out that things are getting quite busy with college and Christmas, so there may be the occasional late post like this one, but come January things should start to even out again

Anyway, here is this week’s Update list:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:0/15
  • Exteriors:29/39

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

September 3rd Update

Slowly getting through these piece by piece, This week I started working on the factories of the city:

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

These were important buildings to draw because of the smoke stacks, I actually have trouble drawing cylinders, especially uniform ones like this, but with a combination of the previous drawing techniques I’d been using combined with some photoshop tweaking I think I have a fast way of drawing them.

I also based the colour schemes off of the Warehouses I’d done previously I liked the grey washed out colours that I feel look oppressive and cold, contrasting with the other warmer areas.

That’s it for this week, thanks for bearing with the progress of these buildings, they aren’t the most interesting to discuss and I hope I have more to say once I’m past them

Anyway, here is this week’s list:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:0/15
  • Exteriors:19/39

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

July 2nd Update

First of the human residential houses, and this was a fun one to design:

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

So one of the first things I wanted to show in the human residential area was that it was well off money wise, so I wanted to have a lot of different shapes, while still keeping the square designs of human architecture, paired with lots of bright cheerful colours, the houses should nearly look like holiday homes. which is why one of the main inspiration was Venetian style villas:

I was originally going to add in the stonework to the design, but I want to keep the human locations artificial looking, and I want to keep texturing as simple as I can in 3D, so I think I’ll go for a smooth concrete texture when I’m modelling them.

Anyway that’s it for this week, keeping it short this week, the progress list is as follows:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:0/15
  • Exteriors:10/39

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

June 25th Update

Last of the military Sector Buildings this week:

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

This was another building I took inspiration from my trip around Dublin, which I based on this building:

Following the same logic as last week’s concept in making the building defend-able so I added the shutters at the top of the windows, I wasn’t able to convey it with the angle I took, but I picture the glass at the top lowering into the main structure, which I think will be easier to show when I model it in 3D.
I decided to keep this design simpler that last week, mainly because I’ve been quiet busy with non-Fade related things, but hopefully I’ll be free to get more done in the next few weeks.

Anyway that’s it for this week,  the progress list is as follows:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:0/15
  • Exteriors: 9/39

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

June 19th Update

Apologies for the day late update! This particular concept took a while to complete, but I think it turned out well:

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

The city in Fade is built from the concept that war is a regular occurrence until recently, so many of the building will have some sort of defences, I haven’t shown this previously due to the Human business sector paying extra to hide the defences and The commercial sector being a newer area to be built up, however I may go back and change it later. The military sector however needs to have this feature of the culture be very clear, so the previous design had the Arrow slit Windows and this one has blast covers that lower onto the windows, which is an idea I got from this building in Dublin:

That being said the blast covers were extremely tedious to draw and while I don’t think its noticeable a lot of the perspective is off on a few, I don’t think I’ll be drawing a building this complicated for a while.

Anyway that’s it for this week,  the progress list is as follows:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:0/15
  • Exteriors: 8/39

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

June 11th Update

This week we start on a new set of buildings, the military Sector:

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

This is a more functional building that the previous ones, I went out and looked for some real life references to get ideas from, so I took a trip into Dublin city and stumbled across one of the entrances to Trinity College which really stood out to me

The thin windows reminded me of the Arrowslits in Castles, so I decided to implement the same thing into the building design, although I probably made them a little too wide, but I’ll have to see how they look when 3D modelled to be sure.

Anyway that’s it for this week,  the progress list is as follows:

• Character Concepts
  • Background extras:42/42
  • Main Characters: 13/13
  • Main character re-designs: 5/5
  • Secondary Character: 14/14
  • Secondary Character re-designs: 5/5
• Weapon Concepts
  • Main Characters: 12/12
  • Secondary Characters: 7/7
  • Weapon Redesigns: 4/4
• Scene Concepts
  • Interiors: 0/24
  • Landmarks:0/15
  • Exteriors: 7/39

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~