For this week, I started working on tower concepts for my theme of ‘Fairytale’. I was assigned the task of creating three artistically different Fairytale themes towers that I would need to create models for in due time to implement into our game. Using my Pinterest board I created prior to starting the design element, I sketched up three different concept ideas for the tower.
One of my concepts are based around pastel colours, (pink, blue, purple, yellow) depicting my own take on a fairy treehouse with a large birch tree as the main base and a smaller tree on top with glowing leaves, which represents some kind of mystical energy-packed battery for the tower.
The next concept revolves around the theme of dark magic, which is a widely used theme in the Fairytale genre. For this design, I referenced an image on my Pinterest tower moodboard (a tall tower with a purple glow) and altered the design for simplicity when it comes to modelling the concept into 3D, and took inspiration for the aesthetic from textures and exterior on Halo 3 towers. In order to decide the colour palette, I colour-dropped a screencap straight from The Pagemaster which included both colours from the Fantasy book itself and the darker backdrop (which added ambience to the scene) and created several colour palettes focused solely around that singular image. When it came to colouring in the concept, I only used the colours from the palettes I had created, making sure to choose from the different swatches I had collected. Next to the tower is the colour palette I chose to use for this tower.
For my final tower concept, I revolved the design around floating objects and separated levels, which fits into the fantasy theme due to the lack of gravitational pull in the earthly scene. I decided that, for simplicity, I would create the tower shape with simple shapes (cubes mostly due to having to stick to the style that was decided amongst our group. I have not yet decided on a colour palette and have only come up with the design, but will look into the best palettes for it next week and colour it accordingly.
I feel as though the designs I have come up with are accurate when it comes to depicting the ‘Fairytale’ genre and although they could be a lot better if I had more experience in illustrating structural creations, I am more than satisfied with the outcome.
Games Design Y2 