Magical Academia – Ideas and Designs

The World

The Magical Academia world has taken inspiration from animal crossing and harry potter. It’s a world of magic, with an academy that people can attend to learn how to control and manipulate magic. We discussed the academy being in a tree, kind of like a treehouse as if it was built around the tree. I think the general design of the world and theme that our group decided on was medieval fantasy so that we could have small fantasy towns with crooked buildings and glowing lanterns/lights. As it is a fantasy and magical world, it is filled with things like old abandoned ruins, glowing mushrooms, large forests full of fairies, caverns and underwater areas. (The underwater areas were because we couldn’t quite let go of the underwater world idea yet.) We would also like to have floating islands and areas, as it reinforces the magical theme as well as presents some unique landscape design potential.

We decided to have some anthropomorphic characters in the world so that some of the group members who aren’t as comfortable with human and their anatomy and prefer to draw animals or anthropomorphic people, could still work freely in the world. It also fits in well with the world idea itself, as most fantasy-based stories have different races, and one of the inspirations, animal crossing, is full of animal characters. There are also humanoid characters, for people who prefer to draw humans, elves and other similar types can also be comfortable with the world.

Ideas, Moodboards and References

Caity had created an interesting board centred around this world idea so that we could all add relevant images and find references and inspiration. This is the Pinterest board!

I also created some mood boards to get some inspiration and further develop my ideas for the world. This was for the general mood and aesthetic of the world in my mind

This asset kit in unreal engine provided some good ideas and inspiration for the world’s buildings as well as having the cartoonish kind of style.

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