WORLDS | 3D | What Lurks Beneath | CGPhantom

cgphantom 2017-06-27 20:39:59 UTC #1

Hello,

I'm new to cubebrush, but thought I'd give this competition a go. Looking forward to seeing everyone's work!

My idea for this challenge is a world like ours left flooded, marshy and dangerous after events that are lost to memory. Humanity lives on in tribal settlements wherever high ground can be found, and guarded.

So, my concept is a large tribe of somewhat primitive humans who have built their village inside the dish of a radio telescope. A large parabolic dish about 400m across, housing a layered 'city' of wood and clay structures. The dish is ideal for them as its high above the water... and what lurks in it. And can easily defend off rival tibes.

I've put together a few mood boards, just as a general guide really. I want to explore a little more before committing to a final visual direction.

I'm exploring scale in unreal atm. But i think a dish about 400m across should be more than big enough.

A couple videos exploring the sort of scale I would like to able to achieve:

Everything in the vids is just temp, as i try to figure out a few things.

I've been looking into this for a few days, but haven't posted as I was worried I would have the time to finish it. but i'm committing here to doing just that.

Thanks, and have fun all.

cgphantom 2017-07-02 17:07:47 UTC #2

Blocking out the framework now. Very few pieces atm, will be adding a fair few more to help conform better to the shape of the dish.

and getting a sense of scale/testing some stuff here. No work done creating any complicated arrangements yet. And still need some more pieces to improve mesh alignment/clipping.

Very messy atm, but helps to give me a sense of direction.

cheers!

Goat 2017-07-03 10:59:31 UTC #3

Looking great so far! Nice sense of scale too, I assume you'll be breaking up that symmetry a bit too later? I imagine it could look fantastic with some intricate, slumlike arrangements of the buildings, looking forward to seeing this finished

cgphantom 2017-07-03 20:35:10 UTC #4

Thanks Goat, and yeah that's the plan. I just slapped them in unreal to get an idea of scale and see how things fit. Eventually I'm going to have a fair few different building types that I can arrange very much like a slum as you mentioned.

Thanks for stopping by!

sugarpoly 2017-07-03 21:05:01 UTC #5

Reminds me of GoldenEye haha !

Have fun working on it, it's a nice idea you have here !