Home Sweet Homeless
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Im officially starting my senior project. I spent last quarter concepting it all out.
The basic concept of this scene is that there are 4 homeless veterans who live in this alley. Despite the fact that they are homeless with very limited resources, they are concerned about their own quality of life and attempt to live comfortably. So they used the random trash they found in the city and built a makeshift living area out of it.
I'm not much of a 2D artist, but heres my basic representation of the scene I want to build.
I do intend to stray from the concept some. Heres the beginnings of the modelling.
And heres the wireframe, the unreal guy is in there for scale...
Critiques welcome! Ill hopefully be posting pretty frequently.
The basic concept of this scene is that there are 4 homeless veterans who live in this alley. Despite the fact that they are homeless with very limited resources, they are concerned about their own quality of life and attempt to live comfortably. So they used the random trash they found in the city and built a makeshift living area out of it.
I'm not much of a 2D artist, but heres my basic representation of the scene I want to build.
I do intend to stray from the concept some. Heres the beginnings of the modelling.
And heres the wireframe, the unreal guy is in there for scale...
Critiques welcome! Ill hopefully be posting pretty frequently.
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Hurry up and get to texturing already.
awesome topic
dude, go on conceptart.org and check out some of coro's work, he is all about painting homeless people. and i might have some pics buried im my computer that could help as well, i will try and find them for you
awesome topic
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why go all the way to conceptart.org when he can just get the pics i have of you my friend.
the big work you're going to have to do now is to show this as a real living space and not just a collection of hobo-related props, which is where the concept is at now. it should look a lot grubbier, since living out in the elements all the time (even in a warm climate, as the sign would indicate they're living in) is hard and of course they're getting all their stuff secondhand or discarded.
another big point is that it's a mighty generous alleyway they've got to themselves there. if they're going to have such a big space to themselves, it needs to be more closed off/forgotten, possibly between condemned buildings or in an industrial quarter, since in a residential area, building proprietors would be making use of the space.
making it a larger space is sensible from a game design perspective, since players always need plenty of room to move around; but for "realism" things should be more... crenelated, more nooks and crannies type arrangements. things should be half hidden away, propped up and built into/from existing structures as possible. right now it looks more like somebody playing at building a homeless set up, not homeless people actually trying to live there.
if you haven't already, think about the specific natures, personalities, and even health/medical needs of the men living here (is one disabled in some way and needs special access for a wheelchair or crutches?) and then mentally work through a day in the life for them, a week in the life, a month in the life. what happens when it rains? do they all need their own spaces? are they secretive or suspicious of each other? where are the hoard piles? where do they keep their plastic bags full of things? "real" proper homeless people often end up looking like deranged urban campers.
anyway, it's a good project with a lot of potential. don't get whole hog into modeling out stuff without taking time to consider things well.
gauss nailed it-
I understand your going for a more cleaned up civilized hobo scenario, but I think its going to need other parts of the the puzzle in order for that to make sense. I.E. characters-
maybe try making a more usual hobo/tramp scene, dirty it up, and THEN try pulling elements into your fiction from there.
and dennis leary
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to me this looks like some of the parts in HL2
Edge Trim/details.
a brick that doesn't tile so obviously would go a long ways.
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yeah this stuck out to me really quickly when looking at this as well. You will be able to break it up a little with dirt, graffiti but you should work on the texture a bit more on that.