Design shrine

Inspiration and sketch

In the game there is a mechanic where Misho’s energy is drained from taking too much fear, and we needed something that’s plenish his health back, so my team suggested that there should be some sort of building or temple where Misho can go and heal from the damage he inflicted. I decided on a shrine because its so suppose a sacred place, so what I did first was to make a mood board of Japanese temples. Most of the images that I collected from a mood board consists of buildings with red and black colour schemes, that was something I wanted to implement into the design of the shrines.

I started sketching at first just to get a rough idea of the shrine, and eventually what I came up with was two ideas was one have a round cylinder structure with an circles roof have a chimney at the top at the bottom it includes the writings that is going to appear in the game, Patrick our programmer created a language in the game, and I wanted to include that into the design. The second idea has a cubed and triangular rooftop on the side, on the side of the shrine you the language.

In the second idea there is a bath full of health properties, this is where is misho can jump in and replenish his health. For the sketch I used procreate and in procreate I used the technical pencil with a brush the size of 100 and the strength was 100%, and for the illustration I use the syrup tool and the brush library on procreate with a brush size of 24% and strength are 100% the colours. I used were read black grey and white brown beige and green, I showed my design to the rest of the team, which they liked it and now I got the confirmation I went on to creating the 3D design for the shrine.

3D model

So what I did first was to create a cylinder and got the top face of the cylinder elongated it, and at the top of the cylinder and I dipped it in, to make the chimney then after that I copy pasted the same circle from the same face and then, I went downwards and elongated it and spread it further to make the roof top and then after that I added a cylinder to make the circumference of the shrine.

Once I got the basic shape of the shrine I started creating the beams for the shrine, but what I did first was to create three cubes and elongated it to make it look like the gateway, and then went into a subdivision surface so I can cut more faces without doing the extra work, after that I went into the scope mood and started creating the wood I did first was use the clay strip with a radius of 24 with the strength of 0.90 so they would look like it was dipping. I used the same tool but use the + sign so that when out whenever I click on a surface the surface will rise this was to make the Bark more realistic. Once I made the bark I added two planes went into textures these two colours which were black and white blue for the separate planes, then I used another plane so elongated it so it would look like the sign on the side of the shrine.

For the second shrine I used a cube by pressing up arrow + A key and correct and copied and pasted another cube and put it on top of that, after that I went on the top face of the cube and moved it and elongated it had moved the new face towards the centre’s and would look like a triangle. I used four cylinders on each side of the end of the cubes so would look like four pillars holding the shrine together me that I used to cubes elongated that and got another cube and got the two sides of the cube and moved it away from each other, after I made the shape of the shrine I used two planes and pressed it on each other so would look like a sign and similarly to the other shrine I use another plane and elongated it to make the law language on the side of the shrine.

Retopology

when it comes to retopology was quite difficult because there were so many individual elements in their shrine design, so what I did was retopologies each part of the shrine so I started with the chimney by using a cylinder and cutting the faces wrapped around the original chimney to offset to 0.3, bees another cylinder and wrapped around the wall onto the shrine.

References

Thomas, K., 2021. 6 Shrine mood board ideas in 2021 | shinto, asian architecture, shrine. [online] Pinterest. Available at: <https://www.pinterest.co.uk/kaiathomas00/shrine-mood-board/> [Accessed 3 June 2021].