The Art of Octavia

Invisible Cities: Final Crit Presentation

Octavia: Lower Exterior Shot

Octavia: Interior Shot

Octavia: Exterior Shot

Exterior Shot Progress

Developing Octavia: Lower Exterior Thumbnails and Colour Comps

Developing Octavia: Interior Thumbnails and Colour Comps

Developing Octavia: Mountains

Influence Map for the mountains.

Plants on the mountains. The wood from these is used to make the wooden heart in the temple.

Developing Octavia: Statues in the Temple

Quick designs for the statues in Octavia's temple, which shall be the subject of my interior shot. The idea was that people in Octavia worship the mountains, believing themselves to be dependent on them for survival. The statues stand over an alter in the temple, with the heart suspended between them.

Developing Octavia: Exterior Thumbnails and Colour Comps

Developing Octavia: Houses and Other Buildings

Some more rough ideas for buildings and structures in Octavia, this time looking at various designs for homes and other buildings. Each building has a firm, wooden base with wooden poles and beams built onto it to create the shape of the building, before a material like sack cloth is fitted over the poles, making a tent-like structure. I still like the idea of the inhabitants of Octavia sewing designs into the cloth, like decorative graffiti on a wall, and I will look more into this idea later.

Developing Octavia: People

A few quick ideas for what the people of Octavia might look like. They might not feature in my project, but it was something on my mind that I wanted to draw out quickly. I like the idea of access to materials for clothes being limited, so large amounts of one material is made or acquired through trade, and distributed to people to do with as they wish. As a result, many people end up wearing the same colours, just worn in different ways.

Developing Octavia

 Thinking about larger buildings and structures that would exist in Octavia. Here are some rough designs for a palace, gardens, a temple and a school.

Digital Painting: Colour Compositions

I used my collages of Argia to create these colour compositions. I like how different colours give each one a different mood and feel.

Digital Painting: Collages

Using my building thumbnails for Argia, I created these collages which show a rough idea of what the city could look like if I was to develop it.

Online Greenlight Review: Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities: Thekla, Zenobia and Zirma

My last set of thumbnails before choosing a city to develop. Throughout these, I have found the polygonal lasso tool extremely useful for creating sharp shapes for buildings and structures such as the ones in Thekla. For Zirma, I wanted to show the chaos and madness within the city, that really stood out for me when reading the description. 

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Digital Painting: Experiments

 Playing with colours for Octavia. Original thumbnails can be found here.