Concept, 3D Modeling, Digital Painting, Rendering: Heitor Dias

Softwares: Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk 3DS Max, Unreal Engine 4

Project realized as part of the 1st year of Game Art Design course at De Montfort University

The Medieval House Project consists on the creation of a medieval house - In my case, a Doctor's House - for a first person adventure game featuring exploration and simple RPG elements in an attractively stylised and rural, fantasy medieval European world and highlightining a light-hearted and positive mood. The world, characters and buildings are to a normal human scale and proportions with some slight exaggeration and simplification of form and surface. The buildings also have to fit a pre existent foundation, have less than 5000 tris and can only use 5 difuse color texture maps.

 

Audience:
The core target audience is tweens and early teens. These are expected to focus on the exploration and challenge elements. The crafting and harvesting systems and strong conversation/alliance building game elements are expected to give a strong secondary audience of adults who enjoy light RPGs.

Delivery Platforms:
Initial delivery is going to be PC with potential migration to tablets later on. This planned migration means the art style and delivery is designed to work well on less powerful platforms. As a result there is a focus on strong silhouettes using light polygon counts and surfaces that are simple with the richness and interest coming from hand painted diffuse colour maps.

 

Bright, positive atmosphere / pre-industrial and rural world / chunky and organic shapes / hand painted, simplified and stylised detail / warm colours / shading and lighting uses colour tones and hues

 

After feedback of strong features: