Ellie Stone: Games Art 2024-25

  This is the stylised workbench diorama which we had to do in 1.5k to 3.5k polys.  I found doing the rope and plant the hardest to do and keeping it under 3.5k with the plant I ended up using planes for the leaves so it would use up less polys. I added the rocks in as cubes I would then go on to adding more detail to everything in zbrush after. For the rope I used the curve tool on a live mesh this was the thing that took the most time for me getting it around the posts the way it was in the picture.  I would also then go on to adding the stone details into the wall and wood details into the table and chair. 

  These are all the mood boards I used as inspiration for the idea of the game's story. Most being a dark colour scheme, I mixed this with the colour of the clothing to emphasise the brighter clothes.  This shows the clothing I wanted my main characters to wear. I would like to make the protagonist wear darker colours in contrast to the other characters having lighter colours. When I was looking at the Chakkri, I also discovered it is very similar to Cambodian wedding attire, though there are some smaller differences. There is some debate over this, specifically with the Cambodian Barbie, as some people say the dress is from Thai traditional dress, and others say it's Cambodian. This is most likely due to the shared history, religion, and traditional purpose.  Cambodian Barbie (Barbie, 2003 image), found on Barbie wiki  https://barbie.fandom.com/wiki/Princess_of_Cambodia_Barbie_Doll The influence of the Thai Ayutthaya Kingdom on the Khmer Empire was also one of the r...

  This is the final sketch for how I wanted my UI layout to look. I liked the idea of using the arrow shape for the buttons. I initially wanted to do that for the 2 bigger boxes in the middle but I didn't like how that looked in the end so I changed it to look like this. This was my initial idea of how I wanted the layout to be. I didn't like how the glow and some other parts looked. I also felt it should be darker. I went with the red and blue colours as they were the colours shown the most in the mood board given.  After making some changes to how I had it originally, I also decided to add the race track as I felt the text didn't need to be that big. I made the background darker to make everything else stand out more. Then I also added rough edges around the shapes. I also drew the icons for each button so it would match the design better.