Pirate's Lair: Layout Change

When moving into Maya, and after discussion with my tutors, I decided to lower the perspective of my scene and add some man-made elements to the cave. From my research, I chose to include a medieval torture device and a wooden jetty as a way to reach the hero prop.

Hero Prop: Designing and Modelling

For my research into medieval pirate's, I decided to design a Viking ship as my hero prop. The main feature of the boat will be the carved dragon on the front.

I took my thumbnail into photoshop and began blocking in colour and adding detail.

 Then I added texture, to create the illusion of scales.

Once I was happy with the face, I began to paint the rest of the boat. Again I added textures to the neck, body and sail.

This is my final concept art for my hero prop.

When it came to modelling my hero prop in Maya, I began by sketching different views of the dragon. To help me begin modelling, I drew the face with polygons, to give a guide.

Above is my finished hero prop. Although it isn't in my concept art or original designs, I decided to add detail to the back of the ship, to make it look like a dragon's tail.

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Thumbnails 7 and 8 are some of my initial ideas for the Great Kitchen. 9 + 10 for the Attic.

Thumbnail 11 - Experimenting on Photoshop, I painted this organ that may feature in my design for the Attic.

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Here are my first six thumbnails for the Room of Roots. 1 - 3 are some of my initial sketches, and 4 is my first using Photoshop. When creating these thumbnails I was trying to get a feel of what the room would look like and I decided I wanted to explore the possibility of a circular or odd shaped room, thumbnails 5 and 6 are examples of this. 

I feel that a room with rounded walls and multiple surfaces would enable me to achieve the labyrinth like environment described in the book.