THRONE ROOM – Lost Relic – SLOT & erelar

SLOT

Hi there!

We are a team of two artists. erelar will do concept work and I’ll do 3D stuff.

Our main idea is to fuse two opposite styles for this challenge. A throne room of almost basic/prehistoric stone shapes pierced by remains of superior alien technology, as if our ancestors built this long lost edifice upon much greater alien relic.

A reference sheet to back this up a bit.



We’re still experimenting with ideas. Here are a few variants for the throne.



Good luck to everyone!

Software we'll be using:

Photoshop
3DS Max
ZBrush
xNormal
Substance Painter/Designer
Unreal Engine 4

Lawrence Preston

great throne concepts. Love the idea and references as well.

_Kratos_

Looking forward to the see the model...the shapes are really interesting!

SLOT

OK, a little update from our team: we're still experimenting with throne ideas, for now we've chosen 2 of them and decided to work them out. Erelar has made a very nice concept and I'm eagerly starting my work.

erelar

Hi, everyone)) I thought that i must say something in this topic X)

A few other concepts with 2nd throne idea. Now we can choose our way.

nyloc

i'm really liking the shapes you're coming up with! simple yet they make a statement

erelar

nyloc wrote: »

simple yet they make a statement

The viewer can lose overly detailed object in the scene.

nyloc

erelar wrote: »

The viewer can lose overly detailed object in the scene.

absolutely! looking forward to seeing more wip

SLOT

Doodling the forms.

SLOT

I want to say a few words about our creative process.

We think that the key element (KE) of the environment - the throne has to be described and thought over first, the rest of the environment will be built accordingly to the KE. Therefore, the overall composition will gradually flow from the KE and will be intact with it. We think that it is rather easy here to lose the KE in the scale and complexity of the environment, so we are not bothering ourselves with the rest of the environment for now.

Spoon

The line doodles/thumbs are super awesome! Great design so far !

SLOT

a small update, we've decided to stick to this concept here, so here's basic shape of our throne.

Mysteryotto

I really like the concepts you have put up and the design for the model seems to be going smoothly. It has a unique, but familiar feel to it; I'm getting some fifth element vibes from it.

lopezmolano

Great idea and beautiful concepts!

EpicBeardMan

This throne design is really interesting. I like the organic and hard shapes combined together. Makes really nice overal shapes and a great potential for further detail. Awesome.
Cheers!

erelar

Big thanks for your support, we'll do our best!

SLOT

Hey, an update from our team, here is a couple of environmental concepts of our throne vision.





workin on them right now.

lasoob

ooh I would love seeing this in a video game! Looks so nice

SLOT

Hey there! It's been a long time since our last update, we're in a little crunch right now, but will do our best to catch up in the upcoming weeks.

Here's a litl update - basic blockout in UE.

Orb

the design of the throne is great. It might be a camera angle illusion but I almost wonder if the last two pillars next to the throne are not too much, I feel it could have more space around it, like a doubled circle around the throne circle. these two pillars are kind of shrinking the throne visually?

SLOT

Ok, I've took the whole next week off just to work on this project here. Meanwhile here's a little update. Highpoly column made in ZBrush.

SLOT

Some Substance Painting coming up, here's the low poly with baked normals.

SLOT

Hey there,

Long time no see, but we are still here and we are still at it! I know it has been a while since our last update but we are just that type of people who do not like to show the work half done.

We are at the stage of finale tweaking and adding minor details.

WarrenM

I know it has been a while since our last update but we are just that type of people who do not like to show the work half done.

That's sort of the purpose of a WIP thread tho.

SLOT

WarrenM wrote: »

That's sort of the purpose of a WIP thread tho.

You're absolutely right, but at the of a day we look at our work and say: we just add this litl thingy here and show it! - and it repeats the next day.:(

SLOT

light tweaks

SLOT

SLOT

shattered one column

SLOT

some snow

SLOT

I'll update on the minor details bout the submitted work tomorrow!