Project
AFW Exploration No. 1
Year
2023
Category
Concept Art
Art Direction
Architecture
Environment Design
Synopsis
This piece of blue sky cityscape concept illustration is the beginning of our exploration of the eco-brutalist retro-futuristic world called A Fearless World.
Eco-brutalism
Architecture
Eco-brutalism as an architecture style and a movement is a combination of brutalism and greenery. Contextually, based on the history of the Soviet Era, brutalism represents power, extravagance, the post-modernist dream of utopia, and the potential of being oppressive. The prefix ‘eco’ refers to the fusion of the architecture to environmentally conscious designs - the organized flourishing of the plants.
This first piece of blue sky concept illustration is intended to explore the look and feel of A Fearless World IP. We explored the contrast of the greens versus the concrete, the scale of the individuals to the massive brutalist surroundings, how scale can be conveyed with window patterns, how many brutalist design languages can go together in harmony, and how the halation effect can be implemented into an image with a slight cyan tint.
Mischellaneous
Process
A series of architectural exporation models that we designed based on the visually documented Eastern European Soviet Era reference.
Excalibur Building
Created by James Nguyen
Credits
Creative Director - James Nguyen
Environment Concept Designer - James Nguyen