I have completely changed the trees and added a lot more to create more of an environment. Additionally, even though I am doing a cut from a scene, I think I needed more markets in the back and middle ground. This won’t be focused on but to create ambience and atmosphere I want to add them. I’m thinking to add a light fog during the rendering process to create a really unique and mystical look.

I have also added more assets, such as money bags, coins and bowls and more potion bottles. I will need to make these less blocky and more personal later on.

After a Feedback session, I have realised that my shapes were too blocky and masculine. Therefore I have rounded the market roofs just slightly for a temporary fix before finding better references to model after.

Some more screenshots of the initial blockout compared to some of the changes I have implemented:

Now here is a painter of my new and updated concept:

I added this digital drawing into Maya as an image plane to use for inspiration for my new blockout. This was using reference from gravity falls, especially from the trees

Here are some really quick sketches for if I do a more cinematic approach rather than a diorama:

As we start to create a more detailed block out, I wanted to add some more reference images (both realistic and stylistic):

I think Gravity falls is going to be a big inspiration to me in terms of colour palette and art style. I love house large the trees are and the ‘fluffiness’ of them. In addition to this, there is a certain magical element to this which I want to implement into my design.

Here are some designs for potion bottles, colour palettes, etc:

Here is a very quick painter to experiment with colours. Not sure about this and need to do more research on colour palettes:

we have begun to block out the very beginning of the models in order to create a paint over. At the moment I like the trees but the marketplace feels very stiff. It also seems quite bare so will need to work on fixing this. Im not sure if I want to do a traditional diorama, but at the moment this is the plan.