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.
I like the feeling that the fog brings with this photo, it limits visablity making it unknowen and bring suspence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If I was to continue with developing this story I might use this Tuatara as a larger slower breed.
I like the layout of it although It looks as if the Tuatara is still regular size and isnt as threatning.
I am gutted that I cant really use it as the bridge plus the palms brings that jurrasic vibe.
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.
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.
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.
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.jpghttps://www.doc.govt.nz/contentassets/d1169f808c7e41099923000f25b34f80/tuatara-hauturu-565.jpghttps://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/01/14/22/05/soldier-4766433_1280.jpg
