UC 2009 'END GAME' | CHEESECAKE | 3D / 2D

Jason Young

Hey, we're all here now. Awesome.

Our project is codenamed escape from colony, until a final title is chosen. The basic story is that of a moon base in its final days. A distant black hole is slowly sucking the last remnants of the moon into oblivion. The primary means of escape is all but useless, and survivors attempt to flee in any way they can. I'm pretty sure escape pods would be pretty futile against a black hole destroying your home, but who knows.

Early concept sketch below:



More to follow this week in conceptland.

michaelspiral

A message!

michaelspiral

i am replying to this thread so that we all know i am here

randomnumber

Hey there. third member of the team here. looks like our glorious leader JMYoung needs to update the original post... Anyway, here's some of our early concept sketches we used to flesh out our theme. better, more detailed sketches and models to come!

randomnumber

I wonder if i can make posts yet...

Jason Young

Indeed you can. I posted basic info in the original post, which I'll continue updating as we progress.

randomnumber

Working on the 3d layout in 3smax right now. here's my current progress. Most all of these props are placeholder, waiting for my glorious team to model and texture them (as they look like poop atm.)

randomnumber

Working is a lot of work, so things are going slowly. found some time to sketch out this concept for the floating chunks of the planet being sucked into the black hole.



Now to conjure up some free time..!

ThomasVeil

Love it, the idea is really nice - one of the most unique I've seen so far. And it has potential for really nice FX. Keep at it!

Jason Young

We already talked a bit on Friday, but I'll post some thoughts here. I really like the concept of the chunk. Having the upper crust be graphite is a really nice contrast to the molten bits. The colors work nicely together, as well as the difference in texture... I imagine the graphite to be very sharp and edgy with the molten stuff more globby and soft. So yeah, very nice.

As for the blockout, I think we need to tweak the scale of everything. It all seems a little closed in. Which actually might be kind of cool, because it really brings the shitstorm to the viewer. That makes me think the foreground elements should be more affected, like things getting torn apart. Then again, I like the first composition where the end of the launch track feels farther away, and there are more foreground elements. Perhaps we could incorporate some of those mining dome thingies into the foreground to frame it better.

Jason Young

Here's a shuttle concept. I'm not married to the design, but idea-wise it runs on a maglev type track as seen in the scene concept. The bottom section would be attached to the track permanently, and at launch the shuttle would break-away after nearing the end of the track and reaching speed. Was playing around with retractable wings.

Style wise, we're looking to go with clean lines for the tech and buildings.

Humfleet

ok guys let see some more work....looking good so far...keep it up..