Enviroment Design: Anoch Sun Speed Painting

Enviroment Design: The Painted Man’s Hideout

The Painted Man has lived in a hidden ruin just off the main road to the main city of Fort Miln for years. This is an ideal enviroment to model as the books describes clearly fully detailed about the room he lives in and the outside area. The downside would be I would have to model the outside to fit in a demon somewhere. The other room would be his main living area, not including the basement but rather jsut a closed trapdoor, this could explain the absence of the other 4 companions, or likewise I could model any of the following, Leesha, Rojer, Gared or Wonda. In this case I think Rojer would be interresting to model due to his Jonggeleur background and colourful clothing. This enviroment fits well into a wood demon as it is think in the forest, however in the world the chances of seeing a demon near the painted man’s home is rare as he fights them nightly.

Below is part of the book describing the majorty of the detail. I miseed a few pages out as they are character development and not actually describing the surroundings.

Enviroment Design: Anoch Sun

One of the two enviroments I decided on fitting into the book with my demon is Anoch Sun. This is a ruin in the Krasian desert, lost in time but the only known ruin to contain the battle-wards of old. Arlen finds these ruins and quickly explores to find a coffin and the spear of Kaji, a spear of the last Deliverer. This enviroment would be fitting as it would contain small corridoors leading through a collapsed wall (which Arlen breaks himself) and the main burial room etched with wards and carvings of old battles in which the humans are depicted to be winning against the demons. Problems I can forsee is the lighting of the enviroment. I was going to fit my character, the demon, outside of the wards attempting to get in and repeatedly being repulsed by the defensive wards. You play as Arlen and have to stay the night. This isn’t 100% true to the story as Arlen leaves straight away to get back to his warded camp and I am also a bit concerned about designing a sand demon as I beleive they will look less interresting without sand falling off them which requires alot of scripting.

The paragraphs below show the part in the first book where Arlen first explores Anoch Sun.

Wood Demon: Final/Turnaround

This is the final demon, I created this by blocking out the demons shape to a more finished silhouette and then applying some texture images. On top of that I then spent a few hours painting on top and with some parts I drew completely myself. I decided to use the longer skinnier head as it is much more scary than the others and that is the look I am going for. I added a few blood splats although I might remove them from the models textures as they seem to hide the wood detail. This demon is around 7-10 foot tall. Here is some information I gathered from the book.

Wood Demons are large Demons with almost impenetrable armour and unnatural strength to power their thick claws.

They have a long standing rivalry with Fire Demons due to their Firespit being able to threaten and kill them.

In their forest they are nearly invisible, because their armor has the same colour and form as trees.

They can go through trees or swing like monkeys from limb to limb.