Week 2, 3 & 4: Class Overview

Week 2

1. Further project discussion

- can infused culture

- embrace every single space

- hero asset, landmark

- find out what type of building/architecture needed

- sketching building

2. Exercise

Draw different solid in 1, 2 ,3 and 4 point perspective view

Week 3

1. Further discussion on project1 

2. Prepare design proposal for project1

- Year

- Era

- Theme

- Location

- Sketches

- Map

- 5 - 6 pages

- 16:9 landscape 

- output: game, animation, movie, xr/vr/mr

3. Exercise

- Apply perspective on sketches for proposal

Week 4

1. Introduce about Unreal Engine and Adobe Colour Wheel

2. Further discussion on project 1

- Style: semi-realistic, realistic, watercolour style

- Theme: Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Solarpunk 

- Genre: Horror, Comedy, Drama

- Time

- Culture

- Output

- Architecture

- Character

- Symbols & motifs

- Function

- Floorplan, navigation, interaction

3. Exercise

Exercise 1 perspective

- Apply perspective to world sketches(project 1)

- Using basic form to create a structure and surroundings

Exercise 2 Value

- Find an actual scenery photo, make it into black and white(greyscale)

- Draw it out

- Using brush to apply light and shadow

- Using different apacity to create light direction

- Create different shades of light and shadow, create depth using tonal value

4. Tutorial

- reduce flat and boring parts

- create depth, using different angle

- create a dangerous hell feeling

- don't use red and black

- decide what kind of gothic architecture

- village houses, on a flat surface or embedded in the surface

- figure ways to combine two different culture