Eliott BlachaDeveloper and designer

Gigantic

A 3D concept art piece on alien life, contrast, unease and massive scale.

Year
2024
Context
School project, ICAN
Role
Concept artist
Built with
Blender
Link
Download the process (PDF, 1.5 MB)
A tiny lit figure at the foot of a vast red corridor that narrows toward a glowing core.

The brief

A second-year assignment: pick a combination of themes and take it from moodboard to sketches to a finished concept. I chose alien, contrast, worrying and massive.

Most of the class worked in 2D. I went to 3D, where scale and atmosphere were easier for me to control.

Moodboard of dark sci-fi references annotated with the words contrast, worrying, massive and alien.
The moodboard: contrast, unease, mass.

Process

Research came first: alien design, megastructures, anything that creates tension. The moodboard settled the direction, with hard contrasts, strange proportions and places that are beautiful and unsettling at once.

After the sketches I built the scene in Blender and spent most of the time on light, scale and atmosphere.

Pencil sketches of round alien structures and a figure standing in front of a giant door.
Early sketches.
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