Unearthly Challenge | Super Happy Umbrella | Kingdom of the Mole
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Team: Super Happy Umbrella
Members:
Jackablade
Dmoz
BMB
We're looking at doing some kind of shanty town built from scrap under ground beside the train lines. An evil shanty town housing mole people. Evil mole people.
That's about as far as we've got so far. Poorly drawn concept art soon.
Members:
Jackablade
Dmoz
BMB
We're looking at doing some kind of shanty town built from scrap under ground beside the train lines. An evil shanty town housing mole people. Evil mole people.
That's about as far as we've got so far. Poorly drawn concept art soon.
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The original concept 79 is a shot of a train station from the perspective of a hole in a station wall (that was my interpretation, at least). I thought building what was on the inside of that hole might be interesting.
Basically, what we're looking at is that there's been a family group of homeless people who've turned to cannibalism living here and preying on the train passengers. The items found around the home are all materials found around the station or taken from victims. I'm hoping to get plenty of personality into this home area with the family's personal affects, along with an interesting contrast between the well lit and spacious station area and the cramped, dark and smokey side area.
A scribble I knocked together at the laundromat.
An early translation of said scribble into something vaguely usable by our concept artist BMB, shot from the other side of the hole in the wall.
There's still a fair bit of noodling about to do with concepts, but we should have something 3d up by Monday.
Crits, comments and suggestions are welcome.
The idea we're currently looking at is that this is an old train station that was condemned and then walled up to keep out the urban explorers (not that that ever seems to stop them). Jump forward to present day, the station has been refurbished with new platforms and such but some of the old rooms remain unused and blocked off. At some stage canibal mole people (or CHUDS, I guess) have drifted in through the train tunnels and now reside in an old decrepit departure lounge. They've knocked a hole in one of the blocked doors to allow access to the station and are now feeding on passengers who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their lair is festooned with items looted from the stations old and new and the passengers that they prey on.
We want to emphasise the fact that this is a home to these people with makeshift and scavengened furniture arranged in a fashion that would be comfortable for a family (albiet a family who kills and eats people on a regular basis), personal effects and decorations. Stuff you'd see in a regular family home or as close as they can get to it.
In order to accentuate this, one of the Mole People is a young child. At this stage this is just represented by a few looted toys and smaller bedding, but I think we'll want to push this more as we get further into the project.
I think that covers everything. The idea seems to evolve with each new concept, so it might be something different next time.
Say hi if you drop by the thread, guys. It'd nice to know that someone is looking.
EDIT: Can't do much about DMoz' progress shot. I imagine it'll reappear eventually.
Here is the latest concept, we've tweaked the entrance to show that it used to allow the end of a train carriage access to the room. Plus a couple more details to show it was a place where waiting happened.
And a gif! Gifs are fun.
The torture device is an interesting idea, but it doesn't really fit in with the overall concept. Think of the humans that are being consumed like cattle. Apart from anything else, stressing them out before death would result in tough meat.
We will have the room torn up a bit and full of junk and debris. We could have some collapsed roof/walls in the room to make things feel a bit more enclosed, perhaps.
More to come shortly.