Here is a redesign of Engywook from Neverending story. The backstory of this character is that he has created a crystal-powered windmill machine that will fly him over to his crystal telescope to look at the Oracle passage where Atreyu needs to pass. Just an alternate method inspired by the pulley system his wife has to…
There seems to be a lot about the details ( C-shaped connector.. so he looses the shoulder pas in battle or does his shoulder "carry" a a secret).. but about what for example his skin ? Is it more soft or somekind of hard and "crusty" (later in the callout it's only... grey.. so i guess "soft").. his hand seems to be only…
Hi everyone, this is my first time properly joining the comp here! Well, after embarrassed myself by posting on the comp thread instead of making the wip here. I'll do it right this time XD so, the story I have in my head was. " After a long night of the fight against invaders who wish to steal the rose crystal from his…
All good points, The reason i decided that the blacksmith could have built his workshop on top of the crystals was the fact the crystal items in games tend to be high level items, meaning that this crystals would be of high value. There are many references to people in real world scenarios stumble upon diamonds and build…
I feel like I'm going to be the only one commenting on this. Ideally since we're so close to the deadline for the contest it would be best if you try to make decisions for direction on your own. As concept artists it's part of the job to internalize these sort of things without reaching out to ask others. It's up to our…
If your whole scene is combination of crystal, grit and metal, it better look like GOOD crystal, grit and metal: I think we're succeeding! The metal material was constructed entirely out of procedural maps in Substance designer, along with several color masks and layer overlays. The crystal material was a bit more…
Hey the theme I'm going for is somewhat based on Vicktor from LOL. I wanted to recreate a base/ inventions that Vicktor would create. Went for steampunk sorta feel. The story I went for is Vicktor discovers these crystals, which he harvests the power from to help his inventions. Everything he creates gather power from…
Little background story (keeping it short I hope) I worked as Level Designer at Epic Game on UT2004, than went to school for a while, after that was done, I eventually got to Crystal Dynamics working on TR for 2 years. My Beautiful wife Sharlene Lin got a job down at a vfx company in LA/Santa Monica, lived separate for a…
Hey guys, thanks for the comments! After looking them over, we realized that we needed to make the throne stand out more. You guys were right that the crystals were taking the focus away from it. We came up with a new quick concept where we made a dual staircase leading to the throne as opposed to the long winding path…
Update on my scene. Testing out some crystal materials, fiddling around with different type of mesh approaches and material approaches. Can use every bit of feedback on these crystals, all comments/critiques are more then welcome. As feedback I got that the Hexagon type shapes are going to distract the player, giving it an…