Brief

The project is to develop a interactive webpage show casing concept art as a piece promotional information for a upcoming video game narrative. The Website will be of a map of the existing galaxy in which the project is set, divided into territories for major playable factions. On clicking on a territory concept art for that faction will play in a slide show consisting of environments such as central planets, staging areas and battlegrounds. Followed by faction specific space ships reflecting each factions aesthetic. The number of ships is related to class and will also feature detailed load out variation. Each faction will feature the following.

• Fighter
• Bomber
• Corvette
• Frigate
• Cruiser
• Battlecruiser
• Dreadnought/Flagship

The Narrative:

300-700 years in the future Humanity has colonized most of the known galaxy. In the beginning to colonized world strategically valuable yet hostile genetic engineering and cybernetics were used to essentially breed colonists and workers for these worlds to provide of the now resource deprived Sol system as the pinnacle of a galactic empire. As time past these peoples founded their own nations and identified under new races as genetic offshoots of the human race, with their new identities came the strive for independence. from Earth as these factions developed their own arsenals they were able to break free although many were and still subjugated under the rule of the Sol Confederacy (Earth/Sol system empire). Presently the major factions present are the Sol Confederacy, The Shakti Principality, The Athenian hierarchy, The Ixion Federation , The Zodiac Court and the Aquila Dominion.

Design Document Plan

Design Document:

Intro

• Title
• Contents
• Introduction and Brief with one sentence summary 

Intial Reserach (Documentry and reserach reference)

• Chinese War of States 
• How to get into space. FTL, NASA theories, Relativity etc
• Colonizing other world. Goldilocks zones, terrarforming, Von Neuman theory, Colonies, Orbital Habitats
• Spaceships, Practicality, NASA concepts, Future for interstellar travel
• Future Warfare technology "rods from god" Soviet experimental weapons, Polish Stealth Tank, Modern Warfare, metal storm 
• Genetic Engineering Present and Future and project application
• Cybernetics Present and Future and project application

Concept Art Research/Technical Skills

• Art Basics, Colour Theory, Composition, materials
• Basics of Concept Art practice Silhouettes Iterations and Final Concept with personal examples
• Related Artists with analysis and Studies related to artists and style
• Speed painting technical skills
• Anotamy
• Vehicle design studies (Modern Air, Navy and Armor)

The Project (refer to previous reserach)

• Setting/narrative
• Timeline and History lore
• Faction profiles with origins and existing lore profile, initial example art (enviroments, planets, landscapes etc), colour schemes, aesthetic identity (moodboards)
• Central Character for each faction?
• Vehicle Design (ships) related back to factions
• Galaxy Map and website mockup

Artist reference

Chris Foss:

Jim Burns:

Ralph Mcquarrie

John Harris:

Syd Mead:

Yoji Shinkawa:

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/is-polands-stealthy-pl-01-the-tank-of-the-future-1554395391

Poland Future Tank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Plq-D1gEk

Inventing Game of Life - Numberphile

http://www.cracked.com/article_16477_5-famous-sci-fi-weapons-that-theyre-actually-building.html

Cracked: Famous sci-fi weapons that they're actually building. Orbital Kinetic Rods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izsPPbLDIvM

Making Warframe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXeZQzfQsM

United Nations - Battlestar Galactica