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Pstedrak | Dreamstime. (n.d.). *Nikau Palms Growing Along West Coast* [Photograph]. https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/nikau-palms-growing-along-west-coast-new-zealand-52025148.jpg

Brief:

A director is looking to hire a team of concept designers, lighting, and look development artists for his upcoming sci-fi fantasy film (based in the dense forest, rivers, and unexplored terrains in New Zealand), that will be in production in conjunction with a game’s franchise.

The West coast happens to be my favorite part of the country as it resembles a prehistoric version of New Zealand, with its warm climate and being coated with Nikau palms. When ever I vist I feel as if I have traveled back in time.

Anatokimotels. (2015). *Heaphy track* [Photograph]. https://anatokimotels.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/heaphy-2.jpg
I like the feeling that the fog brings with this photo, it limits visablity making it unknowen and bring suspence.

Conservationvolunteers. (n.d.). *Punakaiki Coastal Restoration Project* [Photograph]. conservationvolunteers.co.nz. https://conservationvolunteers.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/12/Punakaiki-730×410.jpg

*Interstellar French poster* [poster]. (n.d.). https://www.mauvais-genres.com/. https://www.mauvais-genres.com/19056/interstellar-french-movie-poster-15×21-2014-christopher-nolan-matthew-mcconaughey.jpg
I have always liked the idea of Interstallar.
with this poster it convays the idea of being alone on some desolate planet

My story resembles the Alien movie series were there is a singular apex predator creature, in which the main character must survive and avoid it.

Alien poster https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/134891235/alien1.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=1000&w=1000
I like the compostion in this poster and the feeling it brings of being hunted or being in harms way without even showing the Alien.

Alien Covenant poster
https://www.joblo.com/assets/images/oldsite/posters/images/full/alienposterUK.jpg
I like the lighting in this poster with the alien coming out of a well lit area and the protaginist hiding in the shadows.

Alien vs Predator poster
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Avpmovie.jpg
Although a majority of the Alien vs Predator posters are quite basic with same grey background they still convay the conflict between the two subjects mainly relying mainly of the compisition and the placement of the two charactors.

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My own photos used in some of my edits.

Story:

My storyline is pretty basic, it is a standard Sci-fi survival story in which a man is cut of from his crew and crash lands on a lucious planet that resembles NZ westcoast environment. The Man notices at any sighting of any birds or mammels they flea in a rush. He uses the birds to locate and avoid the monsterous Tuatara. The Tuatara is quick and silent, similar to the raptors of Jurrasic World it is cunning and highly inteligent. The Tuatara also recognises the human as an intelligent species and decides to use the man for a game of sorts.

This is the intial design for my creature that i roughly sketched up, I ended up just settling with a Tuatara to tie it back to the NZ environment, to not confuse the viewer.

With this design I wanted the light from the man to reveal the Tuatara, also to keep the 2 subjects centered. It doesnt make sense in the fact that the Tuatara wouldnt be at that hight, if I was to place it in a cave it would work.

With this concept I wanted to resemble two of the Alien posters above keeping slight tension and showing that the man is the prey. I like this format as it keeps it simple but also convays a brief idea on what the film is about.

For this concept I wanted to use a rock to conceal the Tuatara from the Man and also again use the torch to reval the Tuatara.
I really like the idea and the layout of this concept but I dont I have enough time to model a Tuatara as that is the only I can think of getting good lighting.

and for this final sketch I wanted it to resemble the T-rex scenes from Jurrasic World and Park.
If I was to continue with developing this story I might use this Tuatara as a larger slower breed.

This is a rough recreation of one of my sketches.
I like the layout of it although It looks as if the Tuatara is still regular size and isnt as threatning.

This is a quick photobash that I made in class, the base image’s staturation is so bright that I just decided to ditch this concept.
I am gutted that I cant really use it as the bridge plus the palms brings that jurrasic vibe.

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This is one of my final images, I used the base image as the Terrain is quite flat and level.
The main thing I struggled and took a while to work on was the lighting of added assets aswell as blending edges. I really like how the reflection of the Tuatara turned out.

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With this poster I wanted have it resemble a shot from the film, where the man confronts the Tuatara. I wanted it to build up the Tension of what is going to happen next hopefully inticing potential viewers.
I decided to add the bars to the poster to clean up deadspace aswell to give some area to add text title name etc.
I am quite thrilled with the font that I have found, it resembles a classic film font.

This Is the helmet I quickly made in blender.
the only texture that I used in this model was for the main body.
If I spent more time on it I would have added interor detail as well as some LED lighting then I could cast some light onto the face, aswell I could have played around with the casting of the torch on the helmet.

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rendered, looking back at the final render I wish I had made the cut out for the visor a bit smoother as it looks quite cartoony, also maybe increase the roughnes of the carbon texture.

With this poster I couldnt find a text layout or font that I liked.
With this poster I wanted to bring the same feeling of the Alien posters with the whole hunter and the hunted.
I used a combination of Blender and Photoshop.

Reflection:

In hindsight things I think I did well was to stick to the brief keeping the NZ environment aswell as including the Tuatara, I did also stick to the sci-fi theme although if was to redo it I would put more work into developing the character and its design e.g costume design.

I also need to incorperate lighting more, if I had more time I would have made a Tuatara model and played around with the lighting like some of my concept sketches. I have also started playing around with the scans from Quixel they would have been fun to bring into it.

Font: https://www.dafont.com/night-of-the-deads.font

Image links: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Tuatara_%285205719005%29.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/T53vkEveVspTKS4qos_uSuaJj1KnGOmO1P0xXWNdR0lhbmli7iGLg7VQKirePY1y9N_aupCWAY4B5BPUFSvG6VrcC7iPKoz0oft6TByZpqsyeWmzbBrB https://sadhanayoganz.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/matiu-tuatara.jpg https://www.doc.govt.nz/contentassets/d1169f808c7e41099923000f25b34f80/tuatara-hauturu-565.jpg https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/01/14/22/05/soldier-4766433_1280.jpg