The Desert

The Desert

The third scene of the game takes place in a surreal desert environment with lots of strange sculptures. I'm mainly inspired by Beksinski and Mars for this scene. 

I start the process by concepting the sculptures in ZBrush.

These were all very quick, each concept taking maybe 15 minutes and going through a lot of iterations in the process. I find it easier to concept organic forms in ZBrush because my brain seems to process 3D information faster than it does in 2D. So I am able to produce better ideas quickly in 3D because I don't have to think about how to transfer the ideas into 2D form.

Next I also concepted out a quick texture in Substance Painter.

I took this piece and mocked up a scene in Blender, then painted over the render to create this mood painting and demonstrate how the sculptures are going to look in the scene.