Last four weeks of work till the submission date, and I'm making good time with the painted assets, which I'll arrange separately for the pdf submission aswell as within the composited avi. Something like the page below.
For the initial shot where it begins as lines drawing themselves into ruins, then colour brushes itself over, I've come up with some quick thumbnails; with a focus on space and light. Personally, I've been really trying to keep things loose with visible brushstrokes and blocks of colour. Its quite challenging for me to stop before I overpaint it so this has been a good experience in itself.
The previous blogpost is sparse with information because I was in a hurry and needed work online to show easily; the first few gifs preview the line drawing idea that I mentioned above. Then there are some early city concepts, and a further developed but still loose idea, some early set pieces and a short video clip of everything in 3D space.
a quick mockup of how I want the upper city and tower to scale to the very detailed lower city. Though the tallest tower should be much more slender in the painted version- closer to the video example below.
Lower city clip previewing an early camera movement and wave animation with 80% of the lower city assets completed.
A silhouette asset of the meteor strike that destroys the city- resulting in the ruined version you see at the start of the clip.
