Back4blood: COTW Expansion 2 Prison Concepts and Cross Sections
Collection of cross sections and various concepts I've done for Back4blood's Children of the Worm. This section mainly focused on the development of the prison in Act 5.
Huge shoutout to the art direction of Mike Brainard and architect extraordinaire Roger Lundeen for helping push the direction of these maps. This was a huge collaborative effort and thanks to everyone on the team for translating my work into something more incredible in the game.
Early in development, I started approaching the interiors through cross sections.
These were focused on helping the team with the vision of the 3D space.
During the development of the project, we began to discuss on utilizing lighting and set dressing to differentiate the prison levels. Main floor was cultist.
2nd Floor were more industrial.
3rd floor, abandoned.
basement, ridden hellscape
This was applied throughout the level
The idea here, was potentially previous prisoners would become crazy and start writing on the walls.
Poor guy here, being left to fend for himself.
Alongside the cross sections, these callouts helped explain the materials for the structure.
Sometimes, a drawover is all that's needed.
More blood and guts, these murals were a lot of fun to develop.
Definitely nerded out here, in referencing hieroglyphics the idea of how these glyphs were placed.
Breakdown of those glyphs
How it was implemented.
Throughout the develpoment process, we also tackled how the cultist built structures and what materials they used in contrast to the Cleaners.
Breakdown of the haphazardly placements of these scaffoldings.
These cultists had a thing for the theatrical. Our amazing lighting artist and good friend Scott Warren, would joke around that these cultists were all ex movie industry employees with their knowledge of lighting.
At this point, I think a dungeon crawler B4B might be pretty cool...
Early ideas for the reinforced walls. These windows were explorations on how the ogre would break the different sections.
