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

 

December 24th Update

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

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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~~

June 4th Update

Last of the Human Business skyscrapers this week:

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I kept things simple this week, I’m eager to move onto the next category of buildings, plus the 2nd year anniversary of the blog is in two days and I wanted to spend some time reviewing my progress from the year, but I’ll get into that in the next post.
The building itself is basically a single tower version of last week’s concept which I worry now makes the first Skyscraper I designed clash with these two, but I won’t know that until I make a scene out of them.

Anyway that’s it for this week, I’ll keep it short, for now the 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: 6/39

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~