BEAT-EM-UP! | legendatwork05

legendatwork05

I'm really excited about this challenge and it's starting at the perfect time for me since work has been slow lately.

I'm going to create an eerie, nightmarish scene. Most of my inspiration is going to be pulled from my favorite artist, Zdzisław Beksiński.

Challenges:
- Getting re-acquainted with UDK (It's been awhile)
- Creating tons of organic objects and shapes in ZBrush
- Using lighting and shadows to convey an eerie mood.
- Completing the challenge and being satisfied with my results!
- Non-photorealistic art-style

Moodboard/Reference is done for now. I'll add more to it as the challenge continues.




Next up: Designing the scene!

Good luck everyone!

legendatwork05

First attempt at a concept, not completely happy with it, but here it is. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

gsokol

Cool looking reference/concept.

I think you may run in to trouble filling your scene. All of the concepts you are using don't have anything "busy" in them, which also shows in your concept so far. The layout looks very interesting, but it looks like it should be bare, which would make for a rather boring beat'em up level.

Try thinking of things that you would see along the way walking down this path.

legendatwork05

@gsokol Thanks for the input, after looking at the concept again with fresh eyes, I definitely agree with you. I started brainstorming some ideas to try and fill up the scene more and add to the overall feeling without getting too far away from the original idea.

Possible things to add to the scene:

Foreground/Avatar depth:

- Make the path so that it's covered with bones/fossils. (I see the enemies in this type of level as types of skeletons coming out of the ground.)
- Broken buildings/pillars.
- Some dead/poisonous plants that are growing over the paths and structures. (possibly emitting deadly gases)


Background elements:
- A of couple large buildings in the distance.
- Tree stumps, dead/fallen trees.
- Large rock/thorn structures.

Going to try to some more detailed concepts of specific areas soon, but I'm going to be gone most of the weekend.

Any other suggestions or ideas are much appreciated.

Cheers!

Nysuatro

Interesting. I am curious for more.

Permanent

nice! I really love the different structures you have, and I love your concept. Excited for more

TootingChicken

Brilliant concept stuff (the artist you've chosen is new to me). Will defo keep an eye on this one!

legendatwork05

Hey guys, thanks for the comments!

Going out of town for the weekend so probably my last update until Monday.

Here is a close-up concept of the first bridge. I'm already seeing that I'm going to have design the foreground elements differently so that they don't cover up the player so much, but it get's the general idea across. Comments/Critiques are welcome.

BlackulaDZ

I love beksinskis' artwork, this is gonna be cool.

roosterMAP

looks nice and fleshy! make sure you introduce some elements to break up the red color pallet!

Tetsukaa

Nice!
and a perfect theme track would be.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKgprHd_yY[/ame]

raul

i like the feeling of this level! Very eerie and mysterious! The colors are great as well!

Mike Yevin

I have to say, until I came across this thread I had never heard of Beksinski, but he is now one of my new favorites. I hope you can bring across his surrealism into your work, ill be watching this

hawken

Your concept is looking great - however it looks more like a platformer (shadow of the beast) than a side-scrolling beat-em-up like AvP Arcade, for example. (you need more multi-plane movement areas)
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YGaM-suM1Q[/ame]

legendatwork05

Hey guys, thanks for the comments! Sorry for the lack updates this weekend, I was out of town. I'll hopefully have a few more concepts done in the next couple of days.

@hawken - I agree with the comment on more multi-plane elements. I'll think on this tonight and see what I can come up with.

Cheers!