These are my concept thumbnails for the city of Ersilia!
I liked the idea of this city, the way the relationships are all visible to everybody and the idea of the string tangling together and everything becoming intertwined. When looking for images of what kind of houses I wanted to see in one version of the city, I found treehouses connected by ropes and bridges in the sky. This is an idea I really liked because it was not what I first imagined. The more I designed, the more I was pleased with my sketches of the city! I tried to experiment with angles some more, colours and different ways to show similar ideas as described. I am particularly happy with design 6 and 9, the way they are different from each other while capturing a similar idea. Although I don't like design 10, I felt I should play around with the darkness of the city and layering up the string.
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| ERSILIA- INFLUENCE MAP |
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| 10 CONCEPT THUMBNAILS FOR ERSILIA |
2 Comments
Hi Ren,
ReplyDeleteTry to think about and underpin the workings of the city, so how would the people of Ersilia get food, water and electricity?, how would the city work if it was up high up with those treehouses and all those strings?
As you are doing your thumbnails it's really helpful to be asking yourself these questions as you are designing and translate them into the upcoming thumbnails, your thumbnails are mainly used to problem solve and get those ideas out. I actually quite like your method for thumbnail 10 - layering up the strings like that could make some interesting compositions - maybe you could try to find the cities buildings in the string? :)
Hey Graeme, I agree- these are good questions to ask to push my designs further :) I'll try to think more about these things when designing my next thumbnails for Isaura!
DeleteThank you for the feedback :)