Capstone Ideas

So I started thinking about what I want to do for my Capstone, and came up with a cool idea that is totally influenced by my two most anticipated games of the year, Bioshock Infinite and The Last of Us. What I came up with was basically a flooded, post-apocalyptic version of early 1900s Times Square. While I won't be painstakingly replicating Times Square, I want to maintain the surreal grandeur that it evokes, and utilize the plethora of advertisements it shows to have some fun with texturing billboards and the like. Today I modeled my own interpretation of the One Times Square Building, and a billboard that will eventually be for a magician.

One Times Square

Billboard

Eventually the sign will be halfway underwater, and the lights will flicker on and off : D

Here's a very rough shot of my idea in the editor.

Made a new building, will post some renders of it soon. Here, I was just comparing size and perspective.

Adding awnings and such, this building is supposed to be like a theater/market

The top half is billboards, it should be fun to texture

So I changed my ideas a bit while I was in Europe on vacation, and I decided to drop the whole flooded aspect in favor of a city that is still in its hayday. The idea is that Britain reclaimed the USA shortly after the Civil war and now occupies it with an iron fist. There is a whole new queen, just for the states, and this is a premier city that has a collision of both British and American architecture.

The first building I've made, it's unfinished but this will eventually be The Staggering Lion Pub

Started modeling the second building, a hotel, slowly this city will fill in.

Finished the modeling for it, it is a huge amount of triangles I think, I'll have to ask around whether I went overboard.

Here is a Maya Render of it, loved using the Text

I forgot to post this, but here is the finished Pub.

More fun with text, here's the local candy store

And what I believe to be the finalized hotel