2013: Worldbuilding seminar.

Now we get to the good stuff. The first half year at the HKU was fairly light on actual art assignments, and while I kept myself busy with several sketches, that is not material I deem good enough to share on this blog. Instead, I will skip to the first truly interesting thing I did. The month January is always reserved for seminars taught by 4th year students, and I choose worldbuilding because that offered a chance to do both art and design.

We were tasked with creating a planet with it it's own culture, ecosystem, religion, etc. I decided to try something different and base it on a gasplanet, where several kinds of creatures would thrive. The most important part of this ecosystem were floating micro-creatures that grouped together and formed giant organisms that were, essentially, islands. The animals that lived on this world were divided into several types: Flying, able to land, and ground locked.

It was a very fun seminar that allowed me to go wild with my imagination, trying to balance all the various factors out to keep it both fantastical but also believable within it's own rulesets, and I am still pleased with the results.