my not so secrete garden

okk so moving on from my character project, part of the same module is the task of creating a corner scene, mainly forcusing on lighting and the use of paint effects, essentially as a way of saving time.

to begin with then, influences... I recently purchased the wonder that is crysis 2 and was pretty in love with the environments featured. the main theme being an over run city which in my opinion they really hit the nail on the head. throughout the game I think you probably spend at least a third of game play running through the city jumping across roof tops and so on which was my initail inspiration, a rooftop garden! I wanted to make it a little more over grown and derelict as if it has been a while since the gardener had been about. so reference #2 was one that I covered as a history project in secondary school, the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl. I found this useful as the whole city was abandoned after the disaster leaving shrubbery to take over and cover a once occupied landscape. The other man source I looked into was old English country houses, more over grown ones than most but I was mainly focus on Victoria/Georgian styled green houses, for that again overgrown, chipped paint, rusting look. so i think after doing a bit of research that kind of rounds up the influences so erhhh.. on with the creation stage!

so I'll post up as I go I think and just keep you updated with short annotations :)