Anastasia Jacobsen

Project Description

SOLUS is a two week collaborative Bachelor and Master student project created during my 2th semester at The Royal Danish Academy. This project was a design solution in relation to the global worldbuilding project, Planet Junk, which was led by production designer Alex McDowell.
Objective was to work with worldbuilding, in particular on a narrative plan, that was then supposed to be converted into a 3D-environment.
My role was World Building , Concept Artist and 3D Artist. Additional work included level design and decal textures.
Exam material (EXM) is visual changes or additional content I made for my Art Direction exam for SOLUS. These are not included in the game, but will be marked EMX in red.

Credits

Anastasia Jacobsen :

World Building / Concept Artist /3D Artist

Niek Meffert:

Art Director

Ida Lilja:

Concept Artist / Character Design

Rosa Friholm:

Environment 3D Artist

Lucia Mauri: Texture Artist

Lighting & Tech: Matt Rasmussen

Game Premise:

SOLUS is a 2.5D exploration adventure game in which you play as young nomade, who travels the vast landscape of the desolate desert. Together with your trusted mule, you stumble upon a city buried in dunes of sand. You enter one of the buildings that to explore and take shelter from the baking heat and hopefully find food, water, or maybe even junk in the debt of a former hotel.

Play SOLUS here - Link to demo

My Work:

World Building / Narrative

The slides above where used to pitch my worldbuilding idea for SOLUS - (Sorry for the misspellings but i can't correct my miro board :,( )

Characters Designs (EMX)

Software used: Krita

For my exam I redesigned the characters to be more realistic both in style and design.

Concept Art

Software used: Krita

These are environmental concept art i did for the environment. Note some are EMX.

3D Assets

Software used: Blender

Decal Textures

Software used: Krita

The Graffiti Textures i created to decorate the inside of the building. They were used for visuals, environmental storytelling and guides for the player.