April Jambor: Games Art 2024-2025

Please read my formative assessment blog post first Hello, hello! Due to the flu, I had to postpone my assessment by a week but I have been working hard trying to deliver this by the deadline despite the setback. In this blog post, I will talk about the process of creating a Witches Cottage interior based on a Tagar Culture artifact for my Building a Game World assessment. To begin with, I will walk you through my thought process. When I was first given this assignment, I really struggled with creating thumbnails for this assignment so I decided to research my chosen artifact: the animal shaped tripod pot of Tagar culture, originating from Russia, for inspiration. Going off of the idea that incorporating animals into artifacts was a common theme, I came up with the idea that a broom with an animal head would be a great way to subtly include it. In one of my thumbnails, I had drawn a broom with a snake head. I chose a snake as the animal fits perfectly into a shape of a broom. When I di...

Premise For my first project, I will be designing concept art for one of the main locations in a new RPG game. I have been given a list of prompts for the location and some ancient artifacts to influence the theme of the location. Using the given prompts, I attempted to create designs of internal and external structures. One of my main ideas was to use the Tagar style pot with the witches cottage as it reminds me of a witches pot. I am using Tagar culture as inspiration when creating my thumbnails. My plan is to use earthy colours and make these structures very nature based, covered in moss and vines.  Artifact Culture Research I found this very helpful PDF about Tagar style artifacts, this will help influence my designs. Daggers of different cultures. Dagger B is of Tagar Culture Thumbnails When creating my thumbnails, I wanted to follow the witches cottage prompt so I started out with sketches of what I want the general shape of the structure to look like. Since witches are often...