Village Moodboards / Concept Art

pyromaniac3 commented 10 months ago

Important Notes:

Keep in mind the Dark Gothic theme!
The written doc has some great game examples for the mood, if you're looking for more inspiration!!
Remember to communicate your art through notes! A simple description on what your showing goes a long way! Ex. "A mossy cobblestone" under the concept

Your Task: [Choose One or Both :D]

Create a Moodboard for our villages vibes (using slides, docs, pinterest whateva floats your boat, just make sure it's shareable)
Draw out some sample buildings, floors, landscapes, and more oh my!

Deadline:

Friday, Jan 26th

References

More Pitch Art if you want to look at it Visual Pitch Written Pitch

If you have any questions ask in the Malisense discord server's QNA and make sure to label your question under art!!

Good luck! and have fun <3

TheJPerson commented 10 months ago

Concept for a Village NPC; Gives rewards for relics

Lore Concept: Lost all senses during the event that turned the old city into the Dungeons, but kept their humanity. Communicates through writing or a form of telepathy, and can sense when relics are nearby due to connection to the dungeons.

alittlewightfox commented 10 months ago

I've assigned myself to this task- Elia Zuerlein

TheJPerson commented 10 months ago

Village Church Concept

Notes: -Entrance to Dungeon potentially connected to Church? -Heavy connection with death and the senses -Possibly an NPC outside who gives you back lost items? -Village possibly uses starker, red-tinted colors to contrast the cool colors of the dungeon

pyromaniac3 commented 10 months ago

Here's a reference for what the village scene will be like as an example from darkest dungeon

essentially designs goal is to have a static image of our village, with different NPC's at each building to then be able to point and click to talk to. For future concept reference.

Picture like Deponia here with just NPC's sort of existing around in case someone doesn't know what I mean by point and click

MikeMci00 commented 10 months ago

https://github.com/GDACollab/Malisense/issues/27#issuecomment-1897821518

The use of red in the village to contrast the coldness of the dungeon is a nice contrast, though remember that the harshness of the lighting also needs to contrast, so a darker "cozier" red would allow it to contrast nicely instead of the neon bleeding red that has a similar value scale to the dungeon.
Hmm stained glass is a good thing for consideration with the religious vibes of some of the characters. Could be a cool way to contrast with the stark white window idea in the dungeon?

slburch commented 10 months ago

Hello :] Savvy Burch, assigning myself to environment stuff discord: z0ruas

alittlewightfox commented 10 months ago

Putting the idea here so there is a record of it, still workshopping it though. I thought it would be more interesting to have the crypt keeper be a fancy eccentric women as opposed to a man. I'll workshop a bit to give her more design links to the clergy.

As opposed to her appear old it can be hinted with her dialogue. I want to make her design white and feathery (maybe angel-like or bird-like) Just thought it would be a more fun take

ronan-tsoi commented 10 months ago

i like this concept actually, i agree about the clergy/necromancy thing there's obviously tweaking that needs to be done but it would be cool to make her a weird wacky woman

Carmencing commented 10 months ago

TheJPerson commented 10 months ago

My Crypt Keeper concept (inspired by other person's concept)

Some notes: -mourner motif (dark clothes, veil, etc) -most of face obscured; implies a sense of ethereality -spider lily clip on veil as a motif of death and revival (fits with red color pallet of the overworld and the theme of them resurrecting the PC when they die)

ronan-tsoi commented 10 months ago

FYI I don't think we're going to be able to finalize designs for specific NPCs until the end of S2 (especially since writing won't be finishing their concepts for them until S2 too), and in particular with the crypt keeper we should definitely keep in mind how we are going to approach designs for the other NPCs i.e. the clergy before adding any super specific details.

alittlewightfox commented 9 months ago

Mayor Concept

broken strings, nod to being a puppet for the church
cheeks and string placement are similar to that of a marionette
eyes peeking from bottom of hat, previously blind to stuff but is seeing more
I based this off the mayor google doc in the writing folder

TheJPerson commented 9 months ago

Rough village layout

slburch commented 9 months ago

Rough village layout

i like it! very nice composition and framing. we should totally build on this

ronan-tsoi commented 9 months ago

Rough village layout

This is really cool! we can definitely combine some of the ideas from this with the other village layout concept we have, I especially like the church looming in the distance. however it's important to keep in mind that we only have one screen for the village GUI and so everything that can be interacted with by the player needs to be a physical icon they can select (i.e. the mayor's house shouldn't be off screen unless there is something else present in the composition that represents him)

TheJPerson commented 9 months ago

Layout concept + rough design of Village Fool/Paranoid

Notes: -Lots of protective symbols in design -Probably gonna redesign (and more fully design), but expression is both fearful and accusatory when talking to PC -Standing beside fountain/statue in middle of village

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