{"id":496,"date":"2026-05-21T10:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/?p=496"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:42:50","slug":"art-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/2026\/05\/21\/art-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I started off by extrapolating Maria’s Scopophobia GDD<\/a>, mainly the Art bible<\/a> section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some cropped screenshots from the Art bible which especially inspired me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inspired my my use of both charcoal and watercolours to contrast one another<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inspired my decision to use charcoal and eventual texturing of the shelves & fridges in the Supermarket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The oversaturation and chaos of colours trying to grab your attention<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Concept art inspired by primary research and the GDD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From Maria’s GDD, I was inspired to make this reference\/mood board assembled mostly from Pinterest. I believe it conserves some of Maria’s vision on the game, while allowing me to express my own style onto it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I tried to coordinate with our character designer & artist Junhwan with maintaining a cohesive artstyle, but my approach left a lot to be desired, even if the end result of both our works doesn’t clash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The extent of our ‘communication’ in terms of art direction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t really share much of my analysis of Maria’s Art bible with Junhwan, merely sharing surface level decisions through Slack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I tried to use shape theory & a sense of scale to separate the safe space of the Home Apartment & the scopophobia inducing environment of the Supermarket. In terms of shape theory, I tried to add more rounded elements & a literal circle motif to the safe spaces, while adding more sharp edges in the scopophobic areas. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Concept art illustrating a contrasting environment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In terms of scale & proportion, I decided to make the safe spaces’ models rather realistically proportioned to induce a sense of familiarity and thus safety. Inversely for the scopophobic Supermarket, I decided that scaling everything to a larger size helped with inducing a sense of otherness, offput and thus unease. It helps makes the supermarket feel like a place you don\u2019t belong in, something which people with scopophobia feel in such a crowded place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Concept Art I drew to illustrate a sense of scale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The above also reflects on the use the watercolours & charcoal, where watercolours might be more rounded & soft, while charcoal may be more sharp & hard. I textured the Home Apartment with mostly water coloured textures to suggest safety while texturing the Supermarket with charcoal textures to suggest the feelings a phobia would bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Water Colour painted texture of Home Apartment furnishings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Charcoal painted texture of a Supermarket shelf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I had originally wanted to try and dedicate an eye-motif to my model\u2019s textures, however later due to time constraints, I seldom committed to that aside from objects like the checkout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prototype model of a Supermarket shelf, scrapped due to being overly detailed, complicated and distracting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I decided to keep my models low polygon and simple, reserving detail for more important objects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I started off by extrapolating Maria’s Scopophobia GDD, mainly the Art bible section. Here are some cropped screenshots from the Art bible which especially inspired me From Maria’s GDD, I was inspired to make this reference\/mood board assembled mostly from Pinterest. I believe it conserves some of Maria’s vision on the game, while allowing me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year2sem2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/yfw1e23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}