Spaceqube 2080
Concept art
GDIM01
Anke Schweiger
Furkan bingoel
we write the year 2080 humanity is not living on the earth anymore after leaving the destroyed earth behind the human race had to continue living on the spaceqube eventhough it is not easy to live on an artificially created planet humanity is making it work but to keep the spaceqube alive and working the human race needs to explore the universe for new planets which they can outsource for energy or to potentially find a suitable planet to settle in one day
thus began the age of the peakers the peakers are 5 person groups who set out to explore the universe for new unknown planets these adventurer filled groups are the only hope for the survival of the human race unfortunately only 60 percent of all peakers return back home because in outer space the human race is not the only species and unfortunately one of the weaker ones
First I had to test out the different styles of pixel Art to decide which one i would use for my concept it did not take very long for me to realize that i prefered black outlines and solid colors a little problem i had to overcome was that my main character would wear a lot of black which made the outlines irrelevant for the most part
After deciding for a Style I tried to make some High End Version of my Character to test out if it was possible to even create high end pixel art after confirming this with a thumbnail kind of artwork i started to create my art and combine it with the story so now let us begin the journey of cyby
cyby is a veteran peaker with a lot of experience who returned back home with live threatening injuries his whole crew was in critical condition but only he survived that day which he does not remember anymore on that day he lost all of his memories and became a new person or to be more precise he became a cyborg named cyby
except for cybys brain his whole body was build up from scratch to hide the fact that he is indeed no human anymore but a cyborg he tries to cover up his body but unfortunatly he can not hide his cyborg face and his exhaust
cyby is able to feed his engine with any ressource to energize it the better the ressource the stronger he gets and the brighter he glows
these qualities make him the perfect peaker and the more important body parts to his engine usually glow brighter.
after finishing the turntables cyby got rasterized into 16x16 pixels to implement him into a pixelart game his motion artworks where made with the game animations in mind cybys design works in pitch black with some red accents because his clear identification features are one of a kind
There is no peaker who is more versatile then cyby with the ability to feed his engine with any ressource he can always determine the quality of the planets the stronger the planet is the stronger he gets and thus will almost always be on par with whatever species is residing on that planet
when cyby lost his human body the docs tried to remodel his heart so he would at least keep the two most important parts of his humanity his brain and his heart in the end his cyborg heart only resembles a human heart but does function more like a machine
The crews spaceship is as unique as the crew it is pretty small for a 5 person crew but has uncontested speed and a high firepower thanks to an engine like cybys just like cyby the spaceship gets stronger with the power of the ressource it gets powered with
as if the dangerous planets were not enough trouble for the peakers the traveling beared as much difficulty but upon reaching the new planet the crew realized that they found a suitableone to live in and that a previous species used to live on the planet and left some traces behind
After finishing the turnaround from cyby i started to work on his 3d super sculpey model the problem was that i had to create a 3d version of a 2d pixel art for this i had to use some uncommon methods the biggest difference was that i used a metal plate as a base instead of Aluminum foil
Another difference was that i had to apply the sculpey as flat and thin as possible to get that 2d look To Achieve this I rolled the Sculpey out like dough and coated the Metal Plate after that i carved my pixels into my model the final step was to apply my paint on the model
mechy is the mechanic of cybys crew she is not only responisble for the spaceship and the crews equipment but also functions as cybys doc
mechy is a very unique person who does not talk much but is always in the midst of trouble but due to her unparalleled skills she is a very important crew member and indispensable