For the personification and humanization of 5G, I used as a base idea a cyberpunk mailman, with a bag full with emojis and messages, and is traveling the world at high speed.
I used white, black, blue and pink for him because they are colors very associated with the advertising of 5G.

After the background characters were painted, I started to color the planet and the space. I used several colors associated with the NOS 5g for the small icons spread across the continents (and I putted a big icon to highlight Portugal).
Since I wanted to highlight also the characters in the background, I put a warm glow around them.

I decided to start painting the background characters first. I wanted their colors to reflect the colors of the planet earth.

The line art of the project

After some scribbling about what I should do, I chose the topic of speed and connectivity 

Making good progress, Colours and most of the lighting is done, Next will be some detail work and colour corrects. I'm trying to clearly define a difference in back, middle and foreground by the amount of detail and the rendering of the lighting, with harder, more cellshaded characters, compared to the spacestation or the planet.

I am trying to find the balance between the Brazilian indigenous headdress and a futuristic prop

Agents of Change immediately gave me an impression of the metaverse, space, wireless, and the internet as I interpreted the theme "Agents of Change" as a form/presentation of connection and development.

Therefore, I look forward to creating work with energy, connection, and somewhat futuristic but not too far from the present. 

Hi, i'm João Moreira, a portuguese student from LSD Porto (Lisbon School of Design) and an aspiring 3D Environment Artist for video games. My journey into the 3D world started close to a year ago, and my objective here is to challenge myself and try to put my first proper project out there in order to recieve advice and criticism. And bear with me as i post most of my process at once, lets just say im not used to posting much of anything so this has been on the backburner for a long while.

Well, for starters the environment, with the theme of 5G the first thing that came to mind was "Technological Advancement" and how it benefits humanity. Therefore a bright sci-fiesc theme was a no brainer, so to work i go.

Very quicly a storm of ideas came rushing, until i finally settled on making a room depicting a manufacturing facility creating the technology of the future. And here i show a very basic blockout of said room, i know it aint pretty but believe me when i say that my sketches are way worse.

At this stage all the ideas are in, I added the drones some wildlife interacting with them and made a few compositional changes in the background.

From this point on its all abount rendering the picture to the highest standart i can :)

Btw i went with humming birds for a bit of wildlife represantation since they are really fasy and appear somewhat curious.

Tiago

I've made a few adjustments from the last composition, building on what I had already laid out (though I will have to re-paint a new base as the current version's layers are an organisational mess). The mountains in the distance are a little more easy on the eyes whilst still maintaining the graphic shapes. Currently they are suggested to be covered in pines, a type of tree that I enjoy to paint yet isn't what's common in the area I'm setting this scene in. I would like to incorporate more of the cliffs and biodiversity in flora of the Périgord Noir area.
As the scene is taking place in either late dusk or early dawn, the colour palette becomes limited to being influenced greatly by the sky colour and any artificial lights in the scene. I'm trying to stay true to this whilst also finding ways to bring in the suggestion of other colours, especially in the hives as currently they are quite cold and grey.
Between the foreground and the background, I've added a little more space to create breathing room. I'm walking the fine line between keeping it simple/readable and having enough content to effectively communicate the idea. 

Via a few little field trips around the area I asked some local bee keepers about the design of the hives and learned a lot about why the small stuctures look the way they do. There often needs to be a lower set entrance with a ramped floor to stop water from collecting and small staggered roofing to protect from the rain. I sketched out a few hive designs based on what I saw and heard, keeping the key features of artificial hive design in mind. I could go crazy with wacky out there scifi concepts but 1. I need to make sure that the audience can visually identify that they are bee hives without reading the description and 2. my personal taste lies more in hard-scifi with a hint of magical realism. 
An extra treat from my research was finding out bee hotels exist and are also adorable. Hives are for honey bees that live in a collective. The other genus' of bees are actually solitary and only require a small space soley for themselves. They still collect pollen and are an important part of the ecosystem. Clealy I must make a space for them in my sustainable world. Bee hotels can be varied in design and allow for a little more flare. I've placed a rough design in the scene and I like the base for what's there.

The Town in the background has been changed to reflect the local area more, incorporating small pockets of housing and commercial lanes winding along the verticality of the landscape. 
In the foreground I've added more lavender with the hope of being able to showcase the visual medley of aesthetics the plant can provide.

I was struggling with trying to accuratly layout the mushroom-like antenna so I jumped into blender and quickly modeled the main design and placed it into perpective. Turns out this saves a lot of time! The next phase is creating the iterations I need for the antenna design. I enjoy the current simple silhouette but know deep down that I haven't explored the potential possibilities. 
 

Helloooou again!

I'm now working on the design of the stage/drone/platform where the magic will happen. The idea is that it will be working with drone technology and function so it has to be light. In fact, since all the musicians will be holographic projections, the structure will just need to support it's own weight and just a small part of the equipment that a normal stage will need. So here are some ideas...

At last i finished the character's lighting work. Now the background goes next. I hope everything sets all together just fine. On a small note that i wont put on the final submission, i do realize that my illustration is far different from the other contestants, but im trusting that is a diferent look at the contest's theme. I've got nothing to fear.

I wanted the drone to be a simbol of speed, progress and connectivity as well as a compositional tool in my piece, I felt like if i didnt pay atention the drone could easily sway the whole picture to a more distopian kind of future so i tried to stay way from sharp and overall threatening shapes when designing it.

after some messing around in blender, and witth the help of the drawn concepts I settled on this friendly looking sphere :)

Tiago

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