I wanted to spend the day getting some ideas fleshed out, as I know this week is going to be incredibly busy doing homework for both classes and a commission that I agreed to, which is due on Friday. I followed a couple of tutorials that I found online for creating low-poly environmental models such as rocks and trees:
These were actually amazing fun to do, and super easy following this youtuber’s guides. I really think that if we decide to do an outdoor environment, low-poly might be the way to go – they’re really simple and easy to create, but I also think they’re quite cute and impactful as an aesthetic. These were my attempts:
I think this low-poly aesthetic, coupled with a cool toned palette, could be a lot of fun. I had suggested even having some little fire flies floating, which could be a nice saturated orange or yellow just to create a little contrast with the trees.
I then started thinking about the model of the ghosts themselves – I didn’t model anything, however I did some sketches:
I thought it might be cool to have one feature that relates all of the ghosts – could the body/sheet be translucent, and then a bright and glowing core colour be shown towards the centre of the model? I thought this might be a cute aesthetic, it could also be a way for us to show some personality! The whole thing is giving me 40 Winks PS1 game vibes which I quite like the idea of, but it might be adding complication rather than keeping it simple, I am happy with whatever we do really! I just wanted to get some ideas out whilst they were in my head.
I also did a couple of little doodles of grave stones, and thought about how they might look cared for vs. uncared for. I am trying to get an idea of how we can simplify the graves – the grave slabs themselves will be easy enough to change as they’re essentially just block shapes – but I wanted to show flowers etc.
I very quickly looked up some flowers that grow/thrive/bloom in the night time as I thought it would be really sweet to have the ghosts growing and cultivating flowers that are ‘awake’ at the same time as they are?
I thought models like this would be fairly simple to do, but also that we could essentially copy and paste them but make them look a little different maybe with a different shaped headstone, or different coloured flowers.
Anyway, that is all my tired little brain could muster today! Hopefully my team find these ideas interesting and they’re things that we could possibly work with and come up with more ideas off the back of.