Unit 2 - Secret Lairs: The “Subterranean Emperor” Initial Ideas

Key words: The “Subterranean Emperor”

Initial ideas

Idea 1

Underworld mob boss, that acts like an emperor. Operating in the lowest part of a city, in its “underworld”. Commanding a huge “army” of criminal underlings.

The Set: Emperors main place of operation, a high end office with a massive window show casing the run down under city as a back drop.

The initial problem I can see with this idea is that it may be visually boring, the city scap would play a big role, along with the lighting of the room.

Idea 2

Evil Emperor, hell-bent on returning from the afterlife to seek revenge on the human race for imprisoning him in the underworld. The roman version of the afterlife comes to mind.

The Set: Massive throne room with the Throne being the center piece. The Hero Prop being his massive sword, or perhaps a magic book which he hopes to use to escape from the afterlife.

Idea 3

The human race has moved underground due to the surface being uninhabitable. The Emperor is a title or name used by a Robin Hood type character, who steals food and water and gives it to the poor.

The Set: Metal underground themed city, our hero resides in a secluded room near the deepest part of the underground world, next to the generators and air producing machines.

Cinematic Spaces Final Crit

Unit 1

Cinematic Spaces - Final Concept Pieces

Cinematic Spaces - Beach thumbnails

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Cinematic Spaces - More Thumbnails

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Thumbnails - Forest scene

The following thumbnails are from my forest scene, they show the processes i took to get from my initial sketch to my final piece.

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These last three thumbnails where an experiment in which I played around with the colours.

I like thumbnail 15 because it has more of jungle look, but i also think 14 & 16 work really well due to the darkness that is in the image.

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Cinematic Spaces - More Thumbnails

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Over im really not happy with the base of the large tree, because they just don't work visually for me. I also think the distance needs a little work as the scale is a little off in the background, but i feel like this is somethinmg that would change with more detail being added in. So i'll be going back to the line sketches and making changes.