Independent Practice Week2:My Self-Brief

Filling out the rationale and handing it off to be looked over, i received my response during the tutorial that my idea to do a concept art project is a good direction to focus on. Knowing what i will produce i started to discuss my idea of creating a space pirate ship crash landing in a cave. The idea had come to mind after watching the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film which revolved around the concept of the 'Fountain of Youth', the location of the scene made me think of how the scenes setting could have a space ship and carrying on the pirate theme, the space pirate ship was created.

As you can see from the images on the left i took a liking to the setting that Pirates of the Caribbean took for the 'Fountain of Youth', a dim, wet cave, surrounded by rock formations curving around to focus on the mid point of the cave, the 'Fountain of Youth' and the suttle amounts of greenery and roots/vines covering the entrances of the cave.

Here is my game synopsis: 'You are the main character, a lonely body ready to leave what the world has to offer him, trying to distance himself from the world by going on holiday but unknown to him he would come across an adventure that would exceed his expectations. You are wandering around parts of the jungle that are very dangerous when you notice an open cave that had somehow engulfed something which resembles a ship, you enter the ship through an opening in the side.

Once you enter the ship you start to feel the ship beginning to shake and the sound of an engine starting up as you soon realise that your in space. Not knowing what to do you start to make your way through the ship whilst the remaining crew looms in the shadows and the hibernation pods.'

The overall setting of the concept is a jungle backdrop where a cave is the crash site for a space pirate ship and the main character has found the ship and set off the motion sensors to reboot the space pirate ship and be taken off into space with the crew still in hibernation pods. I will be focusing on developing my overall idea through the conceptual stage showing interior and exterior of the ship, the crash site and possibly character designs but the main focus is the actual ship. Researching into ship designs and encompassing that design into more of a technology base spacecraft and certain forms of information that will contribute with a better development of my ideas.

The brief is to design a space pirate ship based upon the synopsis given and to have an outcome of conceptual designs showcasing the crash site, interior and exterior of the space ship. The end product should depict the synopsis well and demonstrate a space pirate ship across to the audience and to get across many details of the concept of the space pirate ship where the audience would be able to find differences between areas of the concept art and to understand what the concept art is showing. Going down the route of doing a space pirate ship came to mind from Pirates of the Caribbean but doing an actual space ship rather than a standard ship was again based off the results of my previous self-brief project as i felt that doing a design from a standard ship would hinder my development and went back to creating a design which has no major similarities to an actual space ship.
At the end of the project i expect to have pieces of concept art demonstrating designs, ideas and the whole concept of my project. Developing my artistic skills to better express my ideas is my goal towards the end of the project and once my skill set has become that of a professional nature i believe i can take the projects outcome towards my next project to create a 3D representation.

Update:
-I had not really gone into much detail of the whereabouts and time that my story is placed but after thorough research i feel that basing my story within the time frame of the 1500s would fit well with the spaceship basing their design off of the Carrack as the Carrack was seen as 'the' ship to base future ships off of as it was strong, allowed large amounts of cargo and people and the structure of the sails allowed additional speed. As for the whereabouts i found an unexplored region of Earth's Amazon Rainforest primarily the Amazon Baain of South America and the reason i chose this is due to the crew that encompass the spaceship are an advanced race from a planet called shinde which have been studying the human race and have furthered their knowledge based off of human kind and from their obsession of Earth much of their advanced technology is based off of Earth's objects of the time. The reason the Amazon Basin was chosen is due to it being unexplored within the time period my main character comes across this ship from a distance because the area where the ship had crashed was unexplored many others that had come across the ship from a distance didn't want to risk the journey to the ship but the main character was the exception.