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3D Exploration Game : Mood and Texture Boards


Moody Boards

I created a series of images to help conceptual the look and feel I want to capture from the text. Each image is inspired by some element of the text either a line or two or the greater setting of future London.
The above image is inspired by ground-level London and the aesthetics of the streets and the below is the inspiration for the skyline and the horizon.

This image is the 'overwhelming architecture' and 'aisle of Titanic buildings' from the text. I wanted to capture the emotion of looking up at towing buildings that loom over you in cities with skyscrapers.
I was trying to create 'Gigantic globes of cool white light' hanging overhead. Combined with some of the other parts of the text it made me think of these street lights and stalactites.
This image is 'a tracery of translucent material shut out the sky'. I tried to think of what London would have as a roof if it were to have one and this style of victoria glass and steel construction is very evocative of London. I think having large portions of the sky obscured though this kind of foggy glass and steel web really encapsulates the feelings the I had when reading the text initially.

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