Unit: Game Asset Diorama
Students will explore the concept of a diorama as a storytelling device in game design. They will research, sketch, model, and assemble a low poly 3D scene using industry-standard tools. The final deliverable is a PDF portfolio documenting their entire creative and technical process.
Learning Goals
- Understand diorama theory as environmental storytelling
- Develop low poly asset design skills
- Apply the full Creative 3D Design Pipeline: research → concept development/ sketch → 3D model blockout → scene
- Document and reflect on creative and technical decisions
- Present a PDF portfolio of the process
Review the referenced images provided below ( the first six images are key examples ). Choose any elements—structures, objects, or environments—that inspire you. You may select multiple elements or focus on just one. Use pencil and paper to sketch each selected element separately. Focus on shape, proportion, and simplified detail.
Combine your individual sketches into a diorama composition. Think about layout, and how elements interact.
Incorporate Elevation or Isometric Drawings.
Elevation sketches: Show front, side, or top views to communicate structure, scale, and proportions.
Isometric sketches: Present a 3D perspective to explore depth and spatial relationships.
Combine your individual sketches into a diorama composition. Think about layout, and how elements interact.
Incorporate Elevation or Isometric Drawings.
Elevation sketches: Show front, side, or top views to communicate structure, scale, and proportions.
Isometric sketches: Present a 3D perspective to explore depth and spatial relationships.
Drawing Fundamentals Activity: Game Art
First steps: Build Fundamental Drawing/Communications Skills
Practice creating parallel lines, ovals, squares, simple geometric shapes, then progress to sketching cylinders, spheres, cubes and cones.
Application of Skill Sets: Generating simple parallel and diagonal lines, creating boxes that eventually can become furniture objects. Creating simple oval shapes that can evolve to become cylinders, cylinders to vessels, candles, and or potion bottles; developing a tool belt that yields so many possibilities, options are generated, by incorporating simple primitive shapes as the underlying structure of our concept art and designs.
First steps: Build Fundamental Drawing/Communications Skills
Practice creating parallel lines, ovals, squares, simple geometric shapes, then progress to sketching cylinders, spheres, cubes and cones.
Application of Skill Sets: Generating simple parallel and diagonal lines, creating boxes that eventually can become furniture objects. Creating simple oval shapes that can evolve to become cylinders, cylinders to vessels, candles, and or potion bottles; developing a tool belt that yields so many possibilities, options are generated, by incorporating simple primitive shapes as the underlying structure of our concept art and designs.
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Research & Analysis
Select a Theme from your references images, analyze what makes the visuals interesting to you, in terms of form and possible points to design your own assets from; this is a very important stage to build the entire direction of the assignment from- let's do this!
Time Allotted: 2 Periods of Class Time
Select a Theme from your references images, analyze what makes the visuals interesting to you, in terms of form and possible points to design your own assets from; this is a very important stage to build the entire direction of the assignment from- let's do this!
Time Allotted: 2 Periods of Class Time
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Concepts and Form Generation Techniques
Most of our game assets are made using simple shapes like cubes, spheres, and cylinders. Once you get the hang of it, it’s super fun and opens up endless creative possibilities!"
Most of our game assets are made using simple shapes like cubes, spheres, and cylinders. Once you get the hang of it, it’s super fun and opens up endless creative possibilities!"
Build your 3D Space
At this stage for now, you only need 2 walls and floor/ground to start the process. Students tend to add a door, window/s, pillars, beams and a few more additional items.
At this stage for now, you only need 2 walls and floor/ground to start the process. Students tend to add a door, window/s, pillars, beams and a few more additional items.
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Lesson 01- Floor, Walls, Fireplace, and a Broom Stick
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Modelling a a very simple Barrel
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Modelling a Candle
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Blender Modelling Cauldron
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Simple Potion Bottle
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Blender Gothic Window FAST
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