02: Story & References

Story description

I imagined a person living/working in the garage creating the sword, this person travels to different areas collecting resources and bringing them back to the house to aid in his journey to find his daughter. The main focus would be the sword, however as this would be an environment i wanted to have different little stories that a curious person would stop and look at and understand a little more of what is going on in the sense of what happened, and where he's going.

References - Mood board

I wanted to create a home garage that was being used as a workstation, so I gathered different images and put them in Puref. I searched for actual home garages, game references, and already made garage or working stations showcased in Artstation. The 3d versions helped me to get a better idea as they are more detailed than most of the images of real versions.

While looking at the 3d environments, I tried to analyze how they made it and asked myself multiple questions such as:

What areas they invested more time in?

What was their main focus?

How many props are unique and how many are being reused?

How does this compare to my idea?

How can I create some of the objects or textures?

These images not only let me get a feel of what an American home garage would look like, but they were also giving me reference for the content that they store in them. Which later on I could go back to and create props from.

Some of the references I looked at:

Hof M. (2020)

Friedman D. (November 2015)