Saturday, 18 May 2013

Hexels

Hexels is a new art program that allows you to create artwork within various grids. For example, there is a pixel grid that allows you to create pixel art. While I was experimenting with the program, I found the trixel grid which gave me ideas of what I wanted my environment to look like.
The trixel grid is made up of triangles and allowed me to create an isometric view of my environment really easily.
I didn't realise how easy it was to create my environment which possibly gives me some time to add more stuff.
Here is the environment I made.

I wanted to experiment with colour so I tried give several of room themes. Dracula's room is made up of various shades of red as he is known for those colours. The colours also suggest an otherworldly power emanating from the room. 

The corridors and the rooms connecting to it are normal shades of brown. These areas are supposed to feel somewhat friendly and normal to keep Harker from freaking out about Dracula. He would spend most of his time in these rooms so they would have to feel normal. These areas also contrast with the other rooms so those areas would seem stranger.

I liked the idea that the rooms that belong to his victims or the areas he had to feed where a blueish colour. These rooms would gradually become a darker blue as the victims start to get worse. Harker's room is a blueish colour as Dracula has already fed on him

To illustrate this idea better I would have shown this through the chapters where Lucy becomes a victim and she gradually degrades into a vampire.
During the early stages of her turning, she only feels strange and depressed so the room would be blueish that would suggest she was depressed. However as she turns more the blue would become more black and sickly. The colour would act as a mark of where Dracula has been. Anywhere he goes and everything he does is tainted. This is the reason why, after the 'normal' area in the environment, the rooms become a darker and sickly blue.

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