The Siege: King’s Tent War-Room

After I have already used the exterior design of the king’s tent for some visuals of the siege camp itself, it is time to show the interior of that field audience hall. Designing this environment, I started as usual with a couple of quick warm up paint sketches, lots of research and non visual background development, thinking about a fantasy culture that has developed this mobile palace as demonstration of power and wealth for generations.
With the design sketches done it was time to put some tangible proportions and spacial correctness into the King’s audience tent, which could double as a war-room. Therefore I took the sketches into blender and blocked out the tent and the furniture, dropped in some basic materials and lights, then had a lot of fun to fool around with the camera to find my desired shot.
A couple of test renders and sketchy previews and I was good to go.
...And finally the finished piece, pure lines and some extracts for detail’s sake.
That is the thing I love about the line drawings: You can just go in and really figure things out.
Nevertheless I want to come back to this environment when I have time and paint it out - probably in a different lighting scenario.
This environment has been part of a design process demo for students at FZD and more designs are always in the making ;).

Final piece

Final piece

Initial paint sketches

Initial paint sketches

Mindmap and ideation

Mindmap and ideation

Design variations tent exterior 01

Design variations tent exterior 01

Design variations tent exterior 02

Design variations tent exterior 02

Design variations tent exterior 03

Design variations tent exterior 03

Interior sketches

Interior sketches

Protortional sketches

Protortional sketches

3D build

3D build

3D interior set dressing

3D interior set dressing

Shot finding and lighting 01

Shot finding and lighting 01

Shot finding and lighting 02

Shot finding and lighting 02

Quick sketch over screenshot

Quick sketch over screenshot

Final render

Final render

Line drawing

Line drawing

Extract from finished piece 1

Extract from finished piece 1

Extract from finished piece 2

Extract from finished piece 2

Extract from finished piece 3

Extract from finished piece 3

Extract from finished piece 4

Extract from finished piece 4

Extract from finished piece 5

Extract from finished piece 5

Extract from finished piece 6

Extract from finished piece 6