☆ Dwarf and Elf Design ☆

finished my Elf  and the colours for my Dwarf

Very happy with how the Elf came out.

^^^

Dwarf wip

☆ Trees and Lamps ☆

Quick update on my progress on the Battle arena.

Started working on Trees, Lamps and practice on curves tools in general.



☆ Walking Simulator Mood Board ☆

Starting with a Mood Board around Trains to get a rough idea for the 3D Models that I'll have to create for my Walking Simulator (Winter Submission)

UPDATE: Map has been finished. Will upload the progress on map, one sheet and story board later next week.

The Title of the game will be 'Eternal Dream'



☆ Finished Crustaceans Designs ☆

Designing crustaceans worked out to be a very difficult task for me.

No matter what I tried out everything looked super similar.

So I completely scraped my first ideas (see picture below) and decided to start over again.

I took a lot of inspiration for my new designs from shrimps and hermit crabs.

Then added a colour layer

☆ Everything starts to take some rough shapes ☆

Progress on my Battle arena.

The Rock starts to take rough shape and the stones on top of the Plattform look rounder.

Going to start working on Trees/Lamps next Monday.

☆ paint, paint, paint ☆

In this classwork we learned the basics of painting process which we then put into practice

☆ Research practice - Middle Ages ☆

In European history, the Middle Ages lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance.
The Middle Ages is split into three different parts which are;

• Early Middle Ages (5th - 10th century)

When the roman empire got destroyed, people started migrating over to france\old german empire in search for a better life.

• High Middle Age (10th - 13th century)

Expansion of population (from roughly 30 million to 80), people started gathering into small communities towns or villages.
The reason for the expansion of population hasn't been completly explained so far - they assumed it had to do with the fact that there were hardly any wars or plagues around during this time period.

• Late Middle Age (13th - 15th century)

Black death (roughly 35 mil) died, which was roughly third of the population of Europe.
The black death also lead into a time period in which massive amounts of land were abandoned.
Kings/princes gaining more might and influence on thier people.

What's good to know:
politics

• King (highest position), princes obtain land from the king in exchange for a royal swore that contains that they have to follow thier king in war.
• Continued fight among the king about might and power
• Fight between kings and church over power/ influence on the people

social

• Royal Familys, Farmers and commoners are always seperate.
• Where you're born and in which family you get born in will determine what kind of life you have to live
• Royal Family is on top (they manage all the land and commoners), Farmers in the middle (they have to give thier harvest to the royal family and serve them) and on the bottom you have the commoners (they have to serve themselves and the royal familys)

Fashion during the middle ages

Black Death - the cause of Millions of Deaths

Sources:

http://www.pohlw.de/literatur/epochen/ma.htm
http://classroom.synonym.com/political-effect-did-black-death-middle-ages-5440.html
http://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/plague.htm