Task 3.2 – Make a Moodboard for Art Styles

Moodboard for ‘Styles for Environment’: https://pin.it/5pDbVnI

I made the moodboard by searching for digital forest paintings so that I could easily see if the style would suit a mushroom forest. I found a range of styles that ranged from cell-shading styles to more detailed styles that I thought could be feasible options for the game. I chose three styles in particular that vary from each other as examples to present at the next team meeting. Shown below are the three chosen images.

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The styles range from detailed to simplistic. The first is the most detailed style, which I thought might be too difficult to execute within our given time-frame but I thought I would posit it nonetheless in case the team had different opinions. I chose the first style because it is visually very interesting and aesthetically pleasing.

I chose the second style because it seemed to be a good balance between detailed and simplistic whilst showcasing a nice polished, smooth look that I thought would look nice in the game.

Lastly, I chose the third style because it uses cell-shading and lacks detail. It displays a very simple style that we could choose to use if we wanted a style we could execute quickly and easily. However, I mainly chose it so that there would a polar opposite to the first. I did not think a cell-shaded environment would best achieve the game’s goal to be aesthetically beautiful.