In this interview, Kostia Perry, a 3D Environment Student at Artside, discusses his passion for stylised art and his experiences at the school, offering inspiration to those interested in video game Concept Art and 3D Character and Environment Art.
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Observing existing horror-themed art
I started by collecting all the things that can inspire me. It can be fashion art, movies, game art, opera. anything. Don’t only refer to the world of game only. There are tons of great arts that can arouse your deep resonance and inspire you more than you think. I refer to Crimson Peak and some of James Wan’s movies a lot. When looking at the reference, think how do I feel, why this feeling comes.
All the skills I abstract from other good arts helped me. Another thing I’d like to share is that I started looking for reference 1 or 2 days before I started designing. In this way, my subconscious is thinking and arranging the information I looked in the day. In the other day, I will have some ideas.
I Wrote down all the keywords of the ideas, and draw some rough sketches to help myself to recall them later.
I have the honor to study from a Pixar Art director. He suggested to begin designing environment with the storyboard. I found some impressing plots in the novel and painted sketches. I painted the sketches to give myself an understanding of what environment I need.
It turned out to be a bedroom, and the outside of the mansion. Due to the storyboard, those places are of most importance in this project. When drawing those storyboards, I referred to many movie storyboard concepts. I learned from how they do the composition.
Drawing plane map
Then what we need is to have a plane map of the entire environment. This is very necessary for the environment design for it gives yourself a big picture. Doing such a floor plan forced me to think about some level design and gameplay things. I want this design to be a game environment instead of a good-looking illustration. I refer to old houses of England and France in the 18th and 19th centuries.
I learned some knowledge from the research. For example, servants have stairs and gates to use separating from their masters’. Their bedroom, eating and rest areas are often in the basement. All those researches made my design more convincing.
I use the coffin shape as a basic shape. In that way, this basic shape will affect my indoor arrangement. I need to balance between real-life research and exaggeration.
Building a 3D model
After having the plane map of each floor, I started to build a basic shape block with Maya. Considering my environment is complicated, the best way is to have a 3D model. 3D model can help avoiding the trouble of perspective problems. Another issue is the proportion. Everything in this environment should be in comfortable proportion to characters. Even in a very stylized environment, the proportion should be correct.
I use a cube as a person, compare it with all the furniture to make sure that my proportion is reasonable. Another use of 3D is that I use Mental Ray’s render result as the paint-over image. The rendered sun and sky lighting contributed a lot to the later polish.
Design details
We finally got to my favorite part–adding details. Thanks to all the former steps, we have a reasonable space and now we can start telling stories with details. Environment design is an extension of character design. That is to say, this house is to tell us the personality of the people living here. For example, there is a secret in the water of the pond.
I let the sculpture’s hand point at the water, implying the player that they can explore the water. For another example, there is a sculpture at the top of the house. A man is crouching under a lady’s cape. I want to use this as a metaphor implying Ligeia’s ghosts is controlling the man(player).
In the bedroom design, I put the bed is in the center of a ritual. I hope that players can experience some horrible nightmares after lying in the bed. And these nightmares will give players some clues to find secrets of the old house. Besides, the butterfly pattern is also a metaphor I used.
I also use some other elements such as spider web and rotten meat to increase the horror atmosphere. This also suggested some unusual sensations. I think the essence of Gothic horror is that it is not logical, but there is a potential story behind it.
In the design of the hall, I referred to the level design of the Uncharted. It allows players to toss back and forth in this square space. Inspired by that, I let three keys hidden in this messy hall.
Players will find all the three keys to start the elevator, and be taken to the basement. But at certain time of a day in the game, the elevator will lead the player to a more terrifying parallel world. (this concept comes from Silent Hill). This will make a horror game more fun to play.
