week 6 - Environment Design

Environment Design

In our assignment we are tasked to create three things, a character, a prop and also an environment in which the character would fit. The character i have chosen needed a dark and moody setting with some sort of lighting to show hes in a city so i came up with the idea of possibly placing my character in an alley with dim lighting to create a dark and gloomy mood. on the other hand i thought that i could create an environment where my character is shown to be important and powerful, this of course would be an office. 

I decided that i would create the alley environment as i thought this gave the character a more gloomy and interesting appeal. below is the final result that i have created using different textures, lighting effects and blurring certain brush strokes. I've also added the character into the environment to see what it would look like all together.

As you can see i created a one point perspective piece that shows an alley being lit by surrounding light from two windows. As this was a traditional alleyway i wanted to add some sort of grate on the floor which you can see to the left of the character. I also added in a dumpster on the right of the character to show that this was indeed an alley but also to create some scale to the character. 

I created this alley in photoshop and also Adobe illustrator, these two programs allowed me to create 3D looking boxes such as the dumpster but also to create the lighting effects seen from both of the widows on either side.