Just some pixelart. · 7:15am Jan 6th, 2016

I finally finished this thing. I started on it back in June or July, I guess it was. Worked on it for a while, then put it on hold during the fall semester. I finally finished it tonight, after scaling down the final concept.

The idea was to do a pixelart cross section sort of image of a multi-use high rise in a city. There would be residential and commercial spaces. Originally the room in the center was going to be the primary focus. Much moreso than it is now. But I wanted to capture more of what was happening around it, so I expanded the area of the image to add in details from the other floors, as well as adding quirky details to the interstitial spaces (or quasi-interstitial, since residential spaces don't have these very often, and they are usually larger in the buildings that do have them, but still).

Here is a small version of it. Oh, it's slightly animated.

I'm not going to account for every last little nod or reference in it. Needless to say there are a few real life examples of fine industrial design in there. Many of the pieces are based on real items. Feel free to try and identify them.

As of now, the interstitial space is only accompanied by the eyes, the alien machine, and the ductwork. I had originally planned on more, but didn't want the image to become too busy. Same with the animation. I have a number of different things I wanted to do, but decided to keep it simple. The ideas that didn't make it in will be used in future projects, as I'm not done with this theme or concept by any means.

Click here for a larger version of the image.

I'm glad to have this project finished. The fact of it being incomplete had been nagging me in the corner of my mind for a while now.

It's a bit different in style than the patient rooms I've been working on. Those are softer, with less shading. This has more dithering, and more lines around the objects.

I'm going to be working with both styles, as well as a few others. I have some other pixelart in the works aside from the next patient room, and hopefully one of those will be done in the near future!