Day After Tomorrow

I thought the theme from Day After Tomorrow is awesome, I was mainly inspired by the look of the outside, very foggy, cold and isolated.

Developing Idea

This is an Idea sketches of the outside building

Our other idea was about this crazy woman who escaped her way out from a mental hospital, for some reason 10years later she came back. Now she is standing outside looking at the place where she fought her way out. But I don't know, we are still thinking more about the story.

This could be a living room with holes on the roof top.

This is just a random drawing of what I would like our front door to look like, a few rubbles on the floor, the entrance door being blocked by a few things.

This is a sketch from a building I saw in Barcelona, I like the look of the building, not very old and not so new.

Gears of War - New theme

At the beginning of our project, everyone wanted to go for the look of 'Gears Of War' which i thought was really cool. The idea of having a person walking around in Third person view would be a good idea, this will show that our character can interact with the environment. For example, getting the character to walk around the environment, falling over the stairs, door opening, and wind coming from the outside.

We are not sure what to do yet, but we were thinking of taking the third person view from Gears of war, and have our character running around, breaking objects and falling over. Silent Hill and Gears of War is not much of the different in terms of the theme. I guess the differences between the two is that Gears of War theme is slightly more fresh, a few of the props are destroyed but its not as dark and claustrophobic as Silent Hill.

I think this game is fantastic, in terms of the appearance of the game. You can see rubbles and stones, fire and broken doors lying all over the place. The atmosphere of the game is very scary, creatures and your enemy popping from no where and it literally scare the living hell out of you!

Some of the scene also takes place in the living room, with sofas, chairs and dining table. I thought it will be a good idea to look at some stuff from gears of war as it contain allot of props we might want to use.

My Drawings

There is two doors in this room. The door in front of us is the door going in to the bedroom because it is an ensuit bathroom. (Then where is that entrance door I was talking about then?) Oh, you can't see it on here but it's on the right hand side, hiding.

There is two doors in the bathroom, this door is the entrance to the bathroom, as you can see I added some rough detail sketches on the walls to make the interior look old.

This is a front view of the bath tub, here you can see the window on the right hand side and in the front there is a sink and a toilet.

This is a rough sketch of the bathroom , here you can see the sink, toilet and the bath tub.

This drawing is not so details, here I was just draw out the whole room to see what I can add to it.
Here are a few of my rough drawings of toilet. Trying to reaarrange the props around and also to draw a run down toilet.

Layout

This is a close up map design of my toilet to show where things would be. I am still not to sure where things would go, but this helps me to think ahead just to draw this out.






After the ground floor I also draw out the First floor as well, because some of us will be modelling the top floor as well as the ground floor. The only reason why I detailed the bathroom, is because I am the person who will be modelling the toilet, so I know where things will go.

This is my first designed map (Ground floor) which shows different rooms in the house. First there is a hall way, stairs, kitchen, living room and a garage. I did not name any of this on to the map, because I was not sure where these would be on the map, so, I am leaving it to til later for the groups to decide with.

After Barcelona, the group decided that I should take care of the toilet room, the rest will decide which room they want to take, So, I decided to do a ground floor layout and my toilet room layout.

As we have already decided that all of us will be doing different part of this project, I will manage all drawings, sketching enviroment Ideas, storyboarding and character sheets.

Enviromental Research 2

Because we devided up, so each of us can model each room by our selves, i thought it might be a good idea to look in to the kitchen enviroment as well as the toilet.

Our group decided that we should do an abandone building ( this could be a house, hospital, Hotel, apartment or mental institution). So, here I look in to seperate rooms for each of us ( Stair case, Garage, Kitchen and a Bedroom). Again this also shows the detail from the inside, alot of rubbles and broken concrete everywhere.

Enviromental Research 1

I guess it is time for us to look in to the theme a bit more closely, to see where this idea going to take us. I took some time looking at these images from 'Hours of darkness' These are mixture images taken from the psychiatric Hospital.

The reason why I look in to this is because a psychiatric hospital is a place where people are being looked after. We don't know how long them people are there for, who knows the place became corrupted full of people who need to be taken care of, within them times the place stand still all alone, abandoned and demolish.

I really like how the building slowly beginning to age the painting on the wall over a long period of time. The windows appear to be untouch it has been left uncleaned. The ceiling begins to rot which allows the concrete from the top to fall.

http://www.hoursofdarkness.com/Modern_Ruins_Photography.htm

More picture!

I absolutely love these pictures that i've taken at Barcelona, they have amazing architecture showing the inside of an imcomplete structure. Seems like everything there were imcomplete, nothing seems to be done. But other than that, the structure and the interior design looks amazing.

Looking in to Atmosphere

I have played this game before and I think the atmosphere within this game play is the most important part of the scenery. The reason for me to look in to this is because I really like the decomposing look of the building inside the apartment, toilet and the kitchen. However, the texture has a knocked on effect of the player because it gives the player an insight feeling of terror. I thought the exterior and interior has showed alot about the game, especially the fog effect from the outside, the claustrophobic interior design makes a character feel uneasy and intense, and the pitch black on the outside.

I would definately conside this theme, but I guess there is more theme I have already looked at, which I will update later.

Our group decided that we should build an old abandon building which will show corruptions and decomposing on buildings. I think this research has helped me alot in terms of how the artist has used this sort of look which shows alot of atmosphere.

Influences

Here is this drinking thing we saw at the 'Hospital'

This is a close up of what this drinking 'Thing' looked like. Pretty cool =)

As we walked along the ramblas in Barcelona we saw this drinking area which looked like a toilet seat. I thought it looked funny and for some reason this image fit in to my idea pretty well.


As mentioned above that our group are aiming for that dark, scary looking enviroment, maybe I can use this drinking thing as a toilet with detailed textures, I also have a close up image of this thing. (Gross)

Trip to Barcelona

This photo was taken inside Picasso art Gallery where it shows Picasso permanent collection of his work at the early age. I really like this staircase because it does show allot of space from the bottom and going to the top it gets alot narrower. I think this reference will work well, because our group was aiming to go for that dark, scary look. This image can be change by changing the tonal and colours, which give the audiences a feeling of 'Staircase to Hell'. (lol)

Just got back from Barcelona two days ago, had to spend the weekend over there to do some research, hiking and taking some pictures for our digital environment project.

We went in to this building and in there they had this amazing architecture with colourful rooftops and statue surrounded by water. However, one thing we did not realise was we were in a hospital! Barcelona are famous for there very modern looking building, and we happen to stumble in to this building without realising it was a hospital.

The image above is a stairway to a reception, that is where people waited to be seen by a nurse/doctor. I took a photograph of this staircase because it reminded me of a haunted house.

Getting together as a group

We got in a big group 2 weeks ago to work together on this project (Digital Environment) which we will be working towards a short film. After a week of individual research we got together as a group to express our ideas and opinion involve in what will work and what will not work.Listening to each others idea was good, but we had a few problems on the ideas that were given to us and because we all were in to different things, we had to split.

Some of us were happy about the idea on environment of this game called 'Gears Of War'. Not necessary the same environment, but we have this idea on creating a very old looking building, which creates a dark, haunting and eerie feeling, just to give audience an inner feeling something bad might happen.