PS: Next - Art Direction/Style (image intensive)

Kumoblade · 2009-11-22, 03:26 AM

While I enjoy PlanetSide's incredible graphics for its day, Looking back, I realize that I think its a bit too bubbly so to speak; Too curvy, vibrant and bright with no change in its Atmosphere.

Despite the violence, it doesn't feel like there's a war going on at all, really. Each battle feels more like a friendly game of Paintball than Hardened Trained Killers out to blow each others to bits. The Stylization is incredibly clean and smooth with a Static, bright world.

I'm hoping the next installment of PlanetSide will be more dark and edgy. A world that shows the faces of war and the consequences and the suffering. One that sets the mood for the game. Do we want to go in there Sipping Champagne whilst shooting flamboyantly and queerly at each other, congratulating the victor for a bloody good show? Or do we want to Fight like Our Lives Depended on it?

I hope the developers of PlanetSide: Next pull references from several movies/games that have set a bar on what the future might look like and what War is like.

Visually, I hope PlanetSide: Next combines several Science Fiction titles as well as other titles for stylization. Minority Report, A.I, Firefly, Mad Max, Fallout Series, Renaissance, The Derelict planet of Soldier, Mirror's Edge, Escape from NY, Aeon Flux, The Matrix, I Robot, Sin City, The Watchmen, Immortal, The Gene Generation, Death Race, Equilibrium etc... Below are some pictures that inspire me in my hope for a vibrant yet gritty world where we can wage War on each other.

http://pinktentacle.com/2008/08/toky...he-apocalypse/

http://www.designophy.com/uploadedim...spread_big.jpg For full size image

http://www.designophy.com/uploadedim.../flyby_big.jpg for full size

Ehhhh I think thats enough pictures, but I hope you get the idea. I wanted to portray the many faces of War and who it effects. I hope Planetside: Next has a deep, rich and detailed world that shows the many aspects of War.

On a Side Note, has anyone else noticed that Bai Ling really looks like Faith from Mirrors Edge? =P