Concept Designs - Tabletop Miniatures

"I don't dislike to be alone"

Ingmar Bergman

What would you do, if you had plenty of spare time and wouldn’t have to worry too much about economic issues? Well, most of the people would like to travel the world and spend time with their friends (which is not such a bad idea), but I would love to create my own, miniature cities and other fantasy sceneries like those from tabletop RPG games. Okay, maybe I would also travel here and there...

True, I don’t have time for creating physical models, painting them and building fantasy lands of them, but lately, I had (again!) an opportunity to work on concept designs for a company producing such 3D models. Their Kickstarter campaign has just ended and, considering how successful it was, I can guess, that there are quite a lot people interested in spending hours and days on building their miniature worlds and probably even fight battles there. The only difference is, that they actually HAVE time for that 😊

To the point! My task was to design ships, a little bizarre harbor city buildings, and various scenery objects for “lost tribes”. Below you can see, among others, a boathouse, a navigator’s guild, a port tavern, a governor’s mansion, a wizard’s tower, a shaman’s hut and tribal tree houses.

 I hope that all the backers will have fun with these sceneries!

Miniature Houses

Studying architecture certainly has its advantages: weight loss, adaptation to a small amount of sleep, acquiring some skills in designing architectural objects etc. Today I'll focus on the third aspect: designing architectural objects.

Recently I'm designing Winterdale - a fantasy, medieval land (which means in practice that I'm preparing concepts of various miniature buildings for Printable Scenery ). 

Designs you can see below are a base for 3D modeling guys. They, in turn, are making models ready for printing on 3D printers. Honestly, I sympathize with them. I felt a little bit guilty when I was adding all the tiny, fancy details on paper. But the ultimate goal  is to give maximum fun while painting the models and to please the eye after that, right?

They are created for tabletop RPG games...or for decorating shelves. Personally I really like to watch tabletop miniatures, even if I don't have too many opportunities to play. 

That's all for now, but expect more :)

Computer Game - Buildings Designs

"Can fifteen years of imaginary training really be put to use? Apparently, it can."

"Oldboy", the movie

 

Long, long time ago(which means in November last year) I got a proposition of working on building designs for a computer role play game in a fantasy style. Perfectly for me! Floor plans, cross sections, thinking on proper construction systems - that's something directly related with my education. On the other hand the subject - buildings for diverse humanoids from various civilizations - was perfectly matched with my interests.

Projects were (and still are being) developed for a spanish studio Tenth Dimension and their game "Isoland". Maybe you'll hear about it one day :D.

Dawno, dawno temu (tzn. w listopadzie zeszłego roku) dostałam propozycję pracy nad projektowaniem budynków do komputerowej gry RPG w stylu fantasy. Idealnie dla mnie! Rzuty kondygnacji, przekroje, opracowywanie odpowiednich układów konstrukcyjnych  - to coś bezpośrednio związanego z moim wykształceniem. Z kolei tematyka , a więc budynki dla rozmaitych człekopodobnych stworzeń z różnych cywilizacji, trafiła idealnie w mój obszar zainteresowań.

Projekty zostały zrobione (i wciąż są opracowywane) dla hiszpańskiego studia Tenth Dimension, do gry "Isoland". Może kiedyś o niej usłyszycie :D.

1. House designs for a race called Queronts which lives in volcanic areas. It's a strong though not very sophisticated race with some dose of magic skills. Houses are made of material which is easily accessible there, namely basalt blocks which can be connected with acid-resistant steel (volcanic vapours can be quite corrodent). Small openings, simple form and even more simply construction. More "advanced" houses are covered with magic runes.

1. Projekt domów dla rasy Querontów zamieszkującej tereny wulkaniczne. To silna i dość mało zaawansowana technicznie rasa z pewnymi zdolnościami magicznymi. Domy zbudowane są z materiału łatwo dostępnego na tych terenach - bazaltowych bloków ew. połączonych kwasoodporną stalą (opary wulkaniczne są nieco żrące). Małe otwory w ścianach, niewyszukana forma i prosta konstrukcja. Bardziej "zaawansowane" domostwa są pokryte magicznymi runami.

2. Military building for the same race. Large, rough stone blocks and openwork steel elements. The building itself consist of stone cubes surrounding hexagonal training court. The whole complex of buildings is sheltered with a high palisade and a moat filled with liquid lava. The gatehouse also makes it difficult to break through (hopefully).

2. Budynek wojskowy dla tej samej rasy. Duże, nieobrobione bloki kamienne oraz ażurowe stalowe elementy.  Sam budynek składa się z kamiennych kubików otaczających sześciokątny plac do ćwiczeń. Cały kompleks osłonięty jest wysoką palisadą oraz fosą z płynną lawą. Przez budynek bramny też nie łatwo się przedrzeć (miejmy nadzieję).

3. The main building on the mining platform - I've got serious problems with devising shorter name - any ideas? According to plan the building was meant to develop during the game: the more workers - the higher habitable tower, the more resources- the more magazines and treatment tools.  Narrow stairs, which create a slit in a simple form of the main building, lead to a portal on the roof.

3. Główny budynek na platformie wydobywczej - mam poważne problemy z nadaniem mu skróconej nazwy - jakieś pomysły? Założenie było takie, żeby budynek mógł się rozrastać w trakcie gry:  im więcej robotników, tym wyższa wieża mieszkalna, im więcej surowców tym więcej magazynów i urządzeń do ich obróbki. Na dachu budynku znajduje się portal, do którego prowadzą wąskie schody stanowiące szczelinę w prostej bryle budynku.

4. Various tools for  processing resources. Devising of how it all should work took me quite a lof of time but thankfully there is an Internet!

4. Rozmaite urządzenia do obróbki surowców. Całkiem sporo czasu zajęło mi obmyślenie, jak to wszystko ma działać, ale na szczęście Internet bywa niesamowicie pomocny!

As far as I know 3D models haven't been done yet and I'd really love to see them... I'm affraid that it'll take a lot of time before the game will be finished (as it usually happens in case of games) but luckily I can present  you my sketches right now.

Z tego co wiem, modele 3D jeszcze nie powstały, a bardzo chciałabym je zobaczyć... Obawiam się, że dużo czasu upłynie, zanim gra ujrzy światło dzienne (jak to zwykle z grami komputerowymi bywa), ale szczęśliwie mogę dzielić się z Wami moimi szkicami w miarę na bieżąco.