11-24-2021, 03:26 PM
Pretty cool! I like the story a lot. it's intriguing.
I feel like you did some good silhouettes, but what about iterations of other elements? You've kind of nailed it down too soon, and spent time making a pretty image with a background before you've really explored it fully.
I really think there's a lot more you can do with this design. pretend this is going to get put into a game as a significant part of the plot. Workshop everything, the material, the shape, the scale of it, scarab motif on it. Research real ancient pieces from Egypt or elsewhere and see if you can push it further based on what has actually been done in that place and time. The design on the front seems kinda like the first thing you came up with. It would be much more interesting if it were less generic. Could the design be sculpted into the metal instead of painted on? If it's an important object i would imagine it would be more intricate. Handles, decoration, maybe even ancient text like a spell embossed into it.
Just a quick example of the kind of visual research you can do. I found this picture of an ancient vessel. I really like the ring handles, and the stand that it has. It communicates better that it would go over a flame. If you kept the same shape you have and added those two elements that would make it way cooler, and that's just one cursory google search. Ideally, if this was a really important element, you'd crack open a book and find out whatever you can about Egyptian craft, and what kinds of things they might have used for chemistry, or what types of things they would have in tombs. That's the kind of thing that makes a game go from just acceptable to fricken awesome. Attention to detail. It creates a whole world that feels real.
Your fundies need to be strong enough that you can easily explore anything that you want to, to be able to manipulate the form at will, carve into it, add things to it easily. Like could you sculpt the scarab decoration as a relief onto the front of that cauldron? If an art director asked you to do that it would be more than reasonable. That's kind of what I meant before in the previous comment about form. You focus a lot on surface texture, using texture brushes and photoshop effects and stuff. That's kind of icing on the icing. I'd rather see something that lacks finish, but strongly conveys the form of the object and how the light is interacting with it. Get a ref for the material you are trying to replicate.
So to sum up, I think the design could be more referenced, and the form communicated stronger in the render.
I feel like you did some good silhouettes, but what about iterations of other elements? You've kind of nailed it down too soon, and spent time making a pretty image with a background before you've really explored it fully.
I really think there's a lot more you can do with this design. pretend this is going to get put into a game as a significant part of the plot. Workshop everything, the material, the shape, the scale of it, scarab motif on it. Research real ancient pieces from Egypt or elsewhere and see if you can push it further based on what has actually been done in that place and time. The design on the front seems kinda like the first thing you came up with. It would be much more interesting if it were less generic. Could the design be sculpted into the metal instead of painted on? If it's an important object i would imagine it would be more intricate. Handles, decoration, maybe even ancient text like a spell embossed into it.
Just a quick example of the kind of visual research you can do. I found this picture of an ancient vessel. I really like the ring handles, and the stand that it has. It communicates better that it would go over a flame. If you kept the same shape you have and added those two elements that would make it way cooler, and that's just one cursory google search. Ideally, if this was a really important element, you'd crack open a book and find out whatever you can about Egyptian craft, and what kinds of things they might have used for chemistry, or what types of things they would have in tombs. That's the kind of thing that makes a game go from just acceptable to fricken awesome. Attention to detail. It creates a whole world that feels real.
Your fundies need to be strong enough that you can easily explore anything that you want to, to be able to manipulate the form at will, carve into it, add things to it easily. Like could you sculpt the scarab decoration as a relief onto the front of that cauldron? If an art director asked you to do that it would be more than reasonable. That's kind of what I meant before in the previous comment about form. You focus a lot on surface texture, using texture brushes and photoshop effects and stuff. That's kind of icing on the icing. I'd rather see something that lacks finish, but strongly conveys the form of the object and how the light is interacting with it. Get a ref for the material you are trying to replicate.
So to sum up, I think the design could be more referenced, and the form communicated stronger in the render.