This week’s topic is an introduction to the module of build a world. During the webinar, we were split into groups and instructed to come up with 100 ideas for a world. We used Miro to brainstorm. I highly enjoyed this exercise as I had the opportunity to acquaint and collaborate with some of my classmates which I know will be a huge part of this course. Out of all of our ideas we chose to narrow the world down into a post apocalyptic world, filled with radiation and rapidly mutating environments and animals. This wild environment is then juxtaposed by cities which are a mix of traditional buildings, culture and dress and more advanced tech, almost cyberpunk like.

My group and I used a collaborative drawing tool called Magma Studio to roughly visualise our ideas. We had thoughts of floating marine animals who glow from bioluminescence and land animals too.

When conceptualising this creature I had in mind of it being a feline predator. I looked at a lions body and elongated the neck. I also exaggerated the ears to look more pointy and dangerous and since Its environment is a lush jungle, I gave it a petal-like mane and tail for camouflage. During the day it is more washed out colour-wise, but during the night its stripes show up and the mane glows a ferocious red.

This is an ultraviolet variant for it.

I wanted a more creepy creature, and what else spells out creepy if not a flying mutated squid. I gave it the name Gazer for its false eye feature, when in danger it faces its back to you and tries to hypnotise you with the eyes before either attacking or fleeing.

 

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