The art of the Lands of Where Leonardo Romano
Super thanks to my mum and my aunt, who read me a lot of books when I was little, and to my family, my friends and my teachers.
The Art of
A Character based Story-Driven Video Game Concept
Leonardo Romano
The art of Tales of the Good Wizard Visual development MFA Thesis project Academy of art San Francisco Leonardo Romano - December 2016 Leonardoromano.com
Index
Story and early concepts 9 The world of “The Lands of Where” 27 Look & Gameplay 33 The Eggbirds Village 43 The Hero and the Sidekick 65 The story moments 83 The Old Wizard Lab 91 The Adventure 111 Lucio’s Castle 151 Rubecola Motors 177 Logo & UI 195
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Story & Early Concepts
STORY & EARLY CONCEPTS
Introduction Where all came from
I’ve personally always been interested in the creations of world and settings for my imaginary adventures. Since my childhood I’ve loved to draw and surround myself with the fantastic creatures and forest that populated the books and the legends typical of my home town and surroundings, the tuscany. Elfs, troll and dragons are a recurrent presence in my works and with the tales of the Landsof Where I wanted to create an organic world where my characters and all the weird creatures that came up in my mind could aventure inside. Tales of the Good Wizard are a series of stories set in the Land of Where, a fantastic world where a medieval fantasy fashion look meets magic and and advanced sustainable technology. The main protagonist and hero of this body of stories is Ulysse the eggbird, a cute creature that find difficulties finding a place in his society and start his personal jouney to find his own talent and eventually became a wizard. Soon he will meet good friends and mentor but he will have to show his value defeating the evil lucio the horse who has became very powerful after stealing the book of knowledge from the Old wizard of the frasconera forest.
STORY
This is the first chapter and the prologue of the real series of tales of the good wizard, infact this first story is about how Ulysse became a wizard, the following depict the adventure and learning trial and errors of Ulysse along the lands of where.
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Ignotum amare, Felt tip pen & Photoshop, 2014
STORY & EARLY CONCEPT
The story Theme, Discovery what does it take to discover YOUR inner treasureS.
STORY
The theme of the story is the pursuit of talent and its derived from my personal life experiences. Its a common tought to believe that talent is something we born with and in a very little part thats true cause genetic and body predisposition can help us a lot in achieving certain results. But to me thats only a 1% of the story. What I strongly believe is that The environment where we grow and the experiences that we encount day after day forge our visions and tastes and its a this point that Curiosity and external encouragement are crucial to the development of a skill. Practicing the skill is what make us talented in a particular field and this explain why talent is something we achieve with study, dedication, passion and consistence and not just something we born with. The ability of connect and relate things is something that we born with (neural system) and I believe intellingence can be triggered if there is determination in doing it. This story is about finding your own training gym.
The pursuit of talent is a Chimera. Ulysse is a little eggbird who can’t fly anymore cause he lost his propeller. He is very curious and interest in a lot of things but he cant figure out what he likes the most. He loves to learn new stuff and practice different things but there is always somebody else better than him. Having a talent means to have an interest and a curiosity for something and devote time and dedication to it. There are no really shortcuts if there is no passion. .Ulysse will realize that only with passion, curiosity and dedication he will be able to became a wizard, and he will be ready to start adventuring in the land of where to learn more things. The evil Lucio the Horse on the opposite side, won't put effort in the process that learning magic requires and as a result he won't be able to control his power and Ulysse will defeat him proving the supremacy of good learning against arrogance and ignorance.
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THE PURSUIT OF TALENT Ulysse & Syro, Digital, 2014
STORY & EARLY CONCEPTS
EXPLORATION
Early sketches, drawings and explorations
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EXPLORATION
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2. Early Villain Concepts, Ink, graphite & coloured pencils 2014 1-3-5. Ink & graphite explorational sketches, 2014 4. Early Concept, watercolor 2014 6. Early Concept, Coloured pencil & Ink, 2014 3.
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EXPLORATION
STORY & EARLY CONCEPTS
Ulysse and Syro, 2016
Ulysse and Syro, 2015
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Early Characters lIne up, digital, 2014
STORY&EARLY CONCEPT
The Story
STORY
Ulysse is an eggbird. All the eggbirds in the eggbird village got a propeller in their head so that they can fly. The eggibirds are very easy going creatures, they all work as honey catchers during the day and eat zippa and chill during the night. Eggbird life goes smooth and without big dramas. Ulysse is very curious and get generally very excited about things, a bit too much for his fellow eggbirds, who have always to deal with the mess he ends up creating.
Ulysse sketch, graphite, 2016
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uring a warm and quiet night like many others in the Lands of Where, the eggbirds are eating zippa all together like always around snack time at the Eggbird village. Meanwhile the little eggbird Ulysse and his friends are playing in the woods nearby. Ulysse as the youngest of the crew is challenged to fly over the top of the tallest trees. Ulysse as an inexperienced flying eggbird struggle but succeeds and excited flies higher and higher till he reaches the clouds. Exactly when is about to enjoy the moment a strange mysterious and magical lighting bolt strike upon his head and make his propeller fly away. Without propulsion He falls down and hits and destroys the main eggbird oven were the daily Zippa is made. Its the biggest tragedy in long times and The eggbirds,gathered in council and tired of Ulysse causing problems, exhile him from the village. Ulysse is confused but one thing know for sure, its time to do something that no eggbird has done before, exploring the Lands of Where and find some luck and figuring out what he really want to do in life. The day after he leaves the village decided to start a new adventurous life. Its time to lunch and ulysse is fishing by the river whistling. Ulysse is a pretty good whistler and the sound of his voice has attracted a little snake that was wandering nearby. The snake is called Syro and they became immediately friends. They spoke about their lives and Syro want to bring Ulysse to Camerone the old wizard, a wise guy who surely knows something about the recents mysterious storm. As soon as they arrive to the laboratory, they are about to knock the doorwhen it opens "I was waiting you guys" said the Old wizard while letting them enter inside. The old wizard is an old messy scientist-alchemist-magician who saw what happen to ulysse during one of his stargazing session with his big telescope. He is not sure about where the magical thunder came from but he feels that may have something to do with Lucio the horse borrowing one of his magical book and not giving it back, but this was just Camerone hypothesis. One thing Camerone is sure about is the fact that ulysse has lost his propeller is not a coincidence, he may have
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the right predisposition to learn wizardry, and so tells everything to Ulysse. Ulysse is very excited, finally a path to follow, finally he is not lost anymore! Ulysse want to became a wizard and can't wait no more but the learning path is a long and slow journey which has to be taken step by step, GOING ON THE RIGHT STEPS. But in order to learn magic Ulysse needs to study the book of knowledge which was borrowed to Lucio the horse who never gave it back. Lucio lives in a castle with his crew of servants and the way to his mansion is unclear and difficult. Ulysse, with the help of Syro, the errand snake, will have to go to Lucio's and take the book back. They start the journey throught the forest and they get lost, tell each other stories eating in front of the fire, procrastinate, get into troubles till they arrive to lucio, who lives in a big castle. After a long journey through the Lands of Where they finally start seeing at the horizon the silhouette of what seems to looks like the Castle of the Evil Lucio. They have encountered numerous creatures and met various interesting characters along the way, they have seens new places and visited stranger villages, eaten weird food and slept under the stars. The amount of stories and experieces they gained is enourmous, they faces different trials and fought with the worst monsters and now they are ready to approach Lucio even if they havent casted any magic yet. Lucio is a selfish, narcissist horse very proud of himself who wants to learn magic just for being the most powerful horse in the county but he doesn't really care about the magical learning process and he doesn't apply at all. As soon as our heroes approach the castle they notice that all around nature is getting weird, just like somebody did very strange magic around, but they don't understand what can be happened, but looks like somebody is casting some random spell around. They annoucend themselves that they are sent by the old wizard, Lucio knows they want the book back, he's actually using the book to do magic but without learning them so its causing a lot of mess around, including the trouble of ulysse and his village. As soon as he see them he catch Syro so he can make the super hyper power potion and cast a spell on ulysse to make him disappear in the prison in the dungeons. You have to know now that lucio didn't know how to read a book and he kept reading the book upside down, casting spell inwardly. Ulysse so, instead of disappearing in the prison ends
up teleported at the top of the highest tower of the castle, where in the potion room, Lucio is trying to finalize his potion using the last ingredient needed, Snake tongue! Meanwhile Ulysse, on top of the tower, is scared of heights without his propeller and overhear Lucio telling to Syro that he will kill him soon. Ulysse is angry and bravely jump down the roof breaking through a window into the potion room where Lucio is about to cook Syro. Lucio is pissed off and is about to attack back but with a rapid move ulysse gets the book of knowledge which is hold in the book holder, up side down. Ulysse holds the book trying to reading it and casting spell to defeat Lucio. He tries to trap him "CAGE APPEAR!" he says but as opposite a pair of wings appear on Lucio, who is pretty happy about since he can fly now. The situation is hot and Ulysse think about make lucio very very little like a fly and cast another spell, GET SMALLER! but of course, again, lucio the horse became an enourmous flying monster that breaks the castle itself. Lucio is very happy now cause he doesn't need the potion of power and the book of knowledge anymore, thanks to ulysse is now super powerful! and he is about to stomp over ulysse and syro with is giant foot when Ulysse, scared,faint. Not now! not now! says syro trying to wake up him hiding among the ruins. In that moment that Ulysse gets a vision of the old wizard who remind his of the good learning path that he has to take, and the good way of doing thing. Ulysse suddenly wake up and turn the book that he was holding upside down again decided to transform Lucio back in a horse. But ulysse is not an expert wizard yet, and instead of transforming him into a horse, transform lucio into a donkey. Lucio is really really angry and embarrassed and escape swearing revenge. All the spell he casted get breaks and everything became normal again, everything but the Ulysse's propeller. They came back to the Old wizard and for Ulysse its time now to learn wizardry but magically Ulysse's coat start glowing and a magical star appears, he has already started to learn! He learned how to approach things in the right way and is now ready to became a wizard. The following day he came back to the eggibird village and after repairing the oven with a spell learnt the night before he ate a piece of zippa and smiled, thinking about all the adventures he will experience soon with his fellow buddy Syro.
STORY&EARLY CONCEPT
PROLOGUE THE FIRST FANZINE OF TALES OF THE GOOD WIZARD
STORY
In october 2015, during the San Francisco Academy of art 24h comic contest the prologue of the full story of tales of the good wizard was developed. The ideas were still pretty rough and Ulysse was not destroying the Zippa oven. There wasn’t really a good reason to leave his village and a good story start was missing, but the main ideas were already there.
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CHARACTERS
STORY&EARLY CONCEPT
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Characters line up, digital, 2016
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The World of the Lands of Where
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The Lands of Where
THE WORLD OF THE LANDS OF WHERE
The map SUBTITLE A FANTASY WORLD
Early concept map,2014
THE WORLD
In this almost unknown and huge Nowadays we still don’t exactly where the Lands of Where are located, and thats probably where the name, Lands of Where, came from, but this are only hypothesis and the age of the lands of where is exstimated to be billion of turtle years old. The vast majority of the Lands of Where is still unknown and covered by mysterious fog that prevent any possible exploration. The fog is one of the main problem of the Lands of Where and scientists and magicians from all over the cities work daily solving this weird natural phenomenon.
Map Sketches, graphite, 2014
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Map of the Land of Where, digital, 2016
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Look & Gameplay
LOOK & GAMEPLAY
The art style INSPIRATION AND REFERENCES
Cellular Automata natural patterns
The land of Where is a strange place, and as a respectful strange place there you will find a large variety of strange shapes and materials. To convey this feelings to the game the art was directed towards a bold lowpoly style with the use of very graphic textures and cell shading rendering. The priority is set to ephatize colors and shapes. Psychedelic art and the 80’s movement menphis style are clear reference for the use of colors and patterns.
Victor Moscoso, Matrix Club San Francisco, 1967
Other sources of inspiration for the creation of pattern were Japanese patterns, the greyscott algorithm and nature observation. Very interesting shapes came from the observation of the our world on a smaller scale. The shapes we can see with a microscope are an infite source of inspiration to create a magical world.
STYLE
Captain Beef Heart and his magic band, Wes Wilson
Pig Kidney Epithelial Coloured Cells
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In this page, Menphis Style Interior design and furniture examples
LOOK & GAMEPLAY
STYLE
notes
Retins Exploration, Digital, 2015
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Look Exploration, Digital, 2016
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Adventuring in the Lands of Where is always a curious and funky experience. The wide variety of explorable biomes and creatures with which the player can interact will always create interesting game dynamics.
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Gameplay Exploration, Digital, 2015
LOOK&GAMEPLAY
The game play SUBTITLE HOW THE GAMW WORKS
The Tales of the Good Wizard is an action-adventure game with role-playing and puzzle elements set in a large open-world environment.The player controls the protagonist Ulysse and Syro the sidekick from a switchable third-person/first person perspective, in a threedimensional world. The procedural generation of the environment alternates to story driven moments that will help driving the player trough the story. This way every player will experience a slightly different world in an unique experience. The game can be seen as a series of concentrical circles where the player starts from the center and try to reach the outer border. Passing this boundaries will activate videos and checkpoints that will tell the story to the player. Once the player reach the outer level and finish the first part of the game that is story based will unlock passage in to be able to freely explore the vast lands of where.
STRUCTURE
This second part of the game is characterized by the presence of non-player character and quests along the world. In Tales of the Good Wizard the player will be able to make choice and depending on those the event and the story will vary. The player have control on the alignment of the player (good/evil) but only with a good attitude he will be able to accomplish all the quest of the game and finish it.
Physics is very important in the game, the player are able to interact with all the object in the world, which is completely destroyable . A lot of quests and puzzle will involve physics so that a real interaction with the environment is required. The presence of a real physics system allows the player to take advantage of the natural , steep planes, hot air stream, snow,ice and water like in real life. There are element of survival stealth gameplay as well as crafting and trading. The Character as a wizard will learn new spells during the game. With a 3d modeler tool spell the player is able to change the world around him, Bending , torquing, cutting. Other example of magical spell that modify how the player can interact with the enviroment are: teleporting spell, flying spell, elemental spell to interact with othewise dangerous elements. The player can use and create vehicles. In Tales of the Good Wizard the physics engine plays a crucial role in integrating the game mechanics and the art style. The big open world of the land of Where is not just explorable but its completely interactive due to his object system. Everything in the game is achievable and magic is the key element that escape the laws of physics. The use of Ragdolls, Wheater variations and Procedural animations will give a very realistic feeling in contrast with the cartoony and simplified game style.
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Game progression Diagram, Digital, 2016
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The Eggbird Village
THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
The eggbird Society WHAT DOES an eggbird do?
ENVIRONMENT
The eggbirds lives a sedentary life in their village where life goes days by day and zippa by zippa.
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Early Sketches, Graphite and Ink, 2014
ENVIRONMENT
THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
Eggibrd anatomy studies, Pencil & Digital, 2015
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THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
The race of the eggbirds
ENVIRONMENT
Genders, Occupations and hobbies
Eggibird sex studies, Ink & Photoshop, 2015
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Female Eggbird studies, Graphite & Pencils, 2015
It is still a mystery how eggbirds born. They literally seems to came from the underground, every two eggbird-weeks in a spot nearby the eggbird village Eggbird eggs spawn from the underground. This absence of parenting reflect in the eggbird society, male and female got totally equal right but the absence of early education makes a lot of ggbirds grow up pretty dumb.
ENVIRONMENT
THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
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Eggibird village early Concepts, Ink & Photoshop, 2015
THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
The Eggbird’s Treehouses WHERE THE EGGBIRDS LIVE
The Eggbird live in treehouses high in the air where the ferocious creatures that live in the foresta frasconera can t’t reach them. The Eggbirds are flying creature by nature so its not a problem for them to live high up in the trees.
ENVIRONMENT
Eggibird village trees Concepts, Ink & Photoshop, 2015
Eggibird village early Concepts, Ink & Photoshop, 2015
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Basic shape language breakdown
Wonky style guide
Treehouse shapes explorations
THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
PROPS
Treehouses, Graphite & Photoshop, 2015
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Props, Graphite & Photoshop, 2015
THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
Ulysse’s Treehouse
Carpet Exploration, Photoshop, 2015
The HERO’s NEST
ENVIRONMENT
Ulysse lives in an autonomous three floor tree house. The house is pretty big for Ulysse alone and sometimes happens that some eggbird friends pass by. Ulysse here imagine his future adventures and draws in his room all the places that one day he thinks he will visit.
Treehouses exploration, Digital, 2014
Treehouses interior early sketch, Ink & marker, 2014
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THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
The main Zippa Square
ENVIRONMENT
In the zippa square all the eggbird gather at night to cook and eat the eggbird zippa. Inside the belly of the buildings there is the council room where the eggbirds take important decision in the most democratic way.
Zippa square, Digital, 2014
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Zippa square Details, Digital, 2014
THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
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Zippa Oven explorations, Ink & Photoshop, 2014
There is nothing better than a warm slice of pizza after a day of work!
Zippa square, Digital, 2015
A slice of zippa!, Photoshop, 2016
THE EGGBIRD VILLAGE
The Incident THE LOSS OF THE PROPELLER
STORY
Challenged by his friends, Ulysse will fly over the top of the trees but there a mysterious magical thunder will hit him making his propeller fly away.
Above, Eggbird village moments, Digital, 2015
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Cinematic moment of Ulysse flying in the thunder storm.
Photoshop, 2016
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The Hero & The Sidekick
THE HERO & THE SIDEKICK
Ulysse the Eggbird The hero
Ulysse’s render, Digital, 2016
CHARACTERS
Shy, brave, smart, awkward, introvert, poliedric, eclectic, modest, humble, naive, prudent, creative, organized
Ulysse’s faces, Digital, 2016
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Born and raised in the egg bird village, in the middle of the frasconera forest, Ulysses is a very quite and low profile egg bird who like to spend his time helping around other egg birds in need. Unfortunately he is also very unlucky and most of the time he ends up creating confusion and more problem than the ones he want to solve. He is a very creative egg bird, the only one in his village, and this creative inclination will make him feeling different from the rest of the egg birds. The egg birds are commonly very easy going and a bit lazy and their best life aspiration is to enjoy their daily zippo all together after a day of work. Ulysse is different and he is curious about his future and the possibilities he has. He want to travel outside his village and learn things from different cultures in the land of where. Due to his Egg shape and small facial features Ulysses expressions are conveyed with the gesture of his whole body. Elements like the wizard hat and the coat became expressive element too to convey Ulysses feelings.
Ulysse Body expressions, Digital, 2016
THE HERO & THE SIDEKICK
Ulysse’s clothes
CHARACTERS
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Ulysse Clothing Details, Colored Pencils, 2015
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Ulysse Clothed and naked, Digital, 2016
Ulysse journey is both physical and psychological, Ulysses during his travels outside the egg bird village will gain experiences and knowledge and this will make him more confident and powerful.
After the Thunder accident Ulysses will lose his propeller and due to this accident he will be able to spin his brain way faster than regular egg birds and this will make him suitable to learn magic and wizardry.
Ulysse turnaround, Digital, 2015
CHARACTERS
THE HERO & THE SIDEKICK
Ulysse poses, pencil, 2015
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Ulysse faces, Ink & photoshop, 2015
CHARACTERS
THE HERO & THE SIDEKICK
Clothing sketches, graphite, 2014
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Ulysse, Graphite, 2015
THE HERO & THE SIDEKICK
Ulysse’s Maquette
CHARACTERS
SUper sculpey 7 inch sculpture
Maquette turnaround, Digital, 2015
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Ulysse maquette, Super sculpey, 2015
THE HERO & THE SIDEKICK
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Ulysse’s bag sketches, graphite, 2014
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Oil lamp and clothing sketches, graphite, 2014
THE HERO & THE SIDEKICK
Syro the snake THE SIDEKICK
Outgoing Incautious Social Sharp Extrovert Sly Improviser
CHARACTERS
Nomad and wanderer spirit, Syro is a young poisonless snake that live in the frasconera forest among the animal community. he does travel around the land of where and he has a lot of friends and character that he knows. Meeting Ulysses he sees the opportunity of another wonderful adventure. He is not looking to gain knowledge or find a life path, he really enjoy random adventures and improvisation. Syro is basically a muscle tube and together with ulysses he can works as a spring to jump higher, as a whip to reach high places and branches or as rope to climb trees. Syro’s render, 2016
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Face expressions, Digital, 2016
Syro is basically a muscle tube and together with ulysses he can works as a spring to jump higher, as a whip to reach high places and branches or as rope to climb trees.
Action pose, digital, 2015
THE HERO & THE SIDEKICK
Syro’s studies
Syro ketches, graphite, 2015
CHARACTERS
Syro ketches, graphite, 2015
Syro pose, ink & digital, 2015
Syro, graphite, 2015
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DIgital, 2016 Body shape, Ink, 2016
Sketches, graphite, 2015
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The story Moments
thumbnails, ink, 2015
Colors mood & feelings evolution
Color meanings
Colour rough, digital, 2016
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STORY SCRIPTS AND COLOR GUIDE
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5 1 SET UP - 2 INCIDENT ‘- 3 CONFRONTATION - 4 CLIMAX - 5 RESOLUTION
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The Old Wizard Laboratory
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Color studies, Gouache, 2016
After meeting Syro the snake, our hero’s next stop will be the old wizard laboratory hidden in the Frasconera forest.
THE OLD WIZARD LABORATORY
Camerone the Old Wizard The old Eggbird wizard and mentor
CHARACTERS
Wise Clever Messy Intelligent Forgetful Improviser Polyhedric Funny Extraordinary He lives in a hidden spot inside the Forest frasconera and one of the few creatures that knows about him is Syro the snake, who will make him and ulysses meet. He shares a lot with the little ulysses and intact he is a propeller less egg bird too. Being propeller less made him research about the issue and discover the relationships between the loss of the propeller and the ability to learn wizardry. He is a very messy and confusionary character he is not the most reliable mentor but he always has the solution for problems. Sketch, graphite, 2016
Sketch, graphite, 2015
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Camerone carries a lot of stuff inside his beard
Render. digital, 2016
THE OLD WIZARD LABORATORY
Camerone’s studies
CHARACTERS
Exploration, Digital, 2016
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Ink sketches, graphite, 2014
He is a very poliedric magician and scientist and his range of studies is really wide. He enjoy gardening as well making potion, watching stars and studying creatures. He is a good draftsman and maker and, just like Ulysses, loves to create flying vehicles and and alternative energy sources. He is a member of the wizard federation of the
land of where but due to his eremitic life style he has never attend any council in a long time. We don't know exactly why he lives hidden in the frasconera forest, probably as a crazy innovator and quite breaker he was exiled from the egg bird village just like Ulysses.
THE OLD WIZARD LABORATORY
The Laboratory The old wizard mansion
LAYOUTS
He lives in a House Laboratory that he designed and built by himself with the help of the forest creatures. The lab is completely autonomous and uses the force of water to generate electricity. Also energetic crystals are used in smaller quantity to supply other little standalone tools in the house such as lamps, working tool or some of his weird inventions. Camerone the wizard got a very good green thumb and so the lab is surrounded by a great variety of plants.
Exploration, Digital, 2014
Sketches, graphite, 2015
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Clothing sketches, graphite, 2014
THE OLD WIZARD LABORATORY
LAYOUTS
notes
After getting some confidence with Camerone, the old wizard, Ulysse and Syro will be hit by his enthusiastic talk and positive vibes.
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THE OLD WIZARD LABORATORY
The workshop
LAYOUTS
WHERE CAMERONE CRAFT HIS STUFF
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Graphite, 2015
PROPS
THE OLD WIZARD LABORATORY
Graphite, 2015
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Graphite, 2015
THE OLD WIZARD LABORATORY
The Book of Knowledge
PROPS
the a b c of wizardry
Graphite, 2014
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Digital, 2016
PROPS
THE OLD WIZARD LABORATORY
Graphite, 2015
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Ulysse and Syro leave the Old Wizard, digital, 2016
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The Adventure!
THE ADVENTURE!
The Forest The main biome
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1. Woods, Feltip pen, 2016 2. Environment, Digital, 2016 3 The castle , the lake and the monster, Digital, 2016
4. Wandering, Digital, 2016 5 Pink in the woods, Digital, 2016
1. Today the class is outside, Digital, 2016 2. Zeppelino volante, Digital, 2016 3. Saving the kite, Digital, 2016
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THE ADVENTURE!
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Forest secrets, ink & photoshop, 2016
What a weird plant, ink & photoshop, 2016
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THE ADVENTURE!
Plants and trees SUBTITLE
PROPS
Tree silhouette, digital, 2016
Sketches, graphite, 2014
plant silhouettes, ink, 2015
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Weird plants explorations, digital, 2014
THE ADVENTURE!
Rocks, mushrooms & bushes
PROPS
AND GRASS AND LEAVES AND WEEDS
rocks, digital, 2014
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Puntaspillae selvatica, digital, 2015
plant sketches, digital, 2016
THE ADVENTURE!
PROPS
bushes, digital, 2014
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Weird plants and mushrooms, graphite, 2015
PROPS
THE ADVENTURE!
environment sketches, colored pencil, 2015
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Weird plants, graphite, 2015
PROPS
THE ADVENTURE!
Plant sketches, graphite, 2016
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plants sketches, colored pencil, 2016
THE ADVENTURE!
Title SUBTITLE
PROPS
Plants, digital, 2015
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Procedural generated trees, Digital, 2016
THE ADVENTURE!
Title SUBTITLE
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notes
THE ADVENTURE!
Title SUBTITLE
PROPS
weapons, graphite, 2016
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weapons, graphite, 2014
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Ulysse & Syro versus the Rock monster, digital, 2016
THE ADVENTURE!
Text
Forest sunset, Digital, 2016
notes
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River crossing, Digital, 2016
Proceduralgenetared terrain, Digital, 2015
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THE ADVENTURE!
Silvano the giant fisherman
CHARACTESR
And all his tools
Silvano the giant, graphite,ink & Photoshop, 2016
Fishing tools, digital, 2016
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Back
Front
Side
THE ADVENTURE!
ENVIRONMENTS
notes
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Clothing sketches, graphite, 2014
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ENVIRONMENTS
THE ADVENTURE!
It was in need of organization, digital, 2016
Above, vehicles sketches, graphite, 2016 On the righ, Crystal bee chasing, digital, 2016
THE ADVENTURE!
Lana the iguana
CREATURES
1. Iguana exploratory sketches.
Iguana ortho views
2. Study for possible face and moods.
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Ulysse,Syro & Lana, Digital, 2016
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CHAPTER
Title
CHAPTER
SUBTITLE
THE ADVENTURE!
Title
PROPS
SUBTITLE
Air ballon, digital, 2016
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Thumbnails
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color studies
Almost there, Digital, 2016
THE ADVENTURE!
PROPS
Bumbo, gouache, 2015
Hidden temple, gouache, 2015
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sketches, graphite, 2015
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The Evil Lucio & his Castle
THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
Lucio the Horse THE VILLAIN E EVIL LOrd of the lands of where
CHARACTERS
Lucio is one of the last machiohorses in the land of where. This particular species of horse is very ancient and got a main characteristic of being very mean and avid of power. The machiohorse basically fought themselves over and over till they almost extinguish their own race. This already tells a lot about the nature of the villain of Tales of the good wizard. After the loss of the last machiohorses Lucio got to be the one in charge of the machiohorse castle and since then he cover his deep sadness and feeling of being the last of his specie with arrogance and lust for power.
Lucio’s expressions, Digital, 2016
Lucio’s final version, digital, 2016
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Obnoxious narcissistic evil, dumb harmful, superficial covetous avid stubborn spoiled sneaky and without scruples fake and liar arrogant
Lucio’s gestures, Digital
THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
CHARACTERS
Lucioàs face explorations, digital, 2016
Lucio, graphite, 2015
Lucioàs face explorations, graphite, 2014
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He is a very narcissistic character and he is doesn’t see how stupid he really is. He is always looking for a shortcut and among his values effort and handwork and not listed.
1.
2.
3.
5.
1. 2. 3. sketches, graphite, 2014 4. Lucio & Pirgo, pencil, 2015 5 Lucio’s faces. graphite & ink, 2016
4.
THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
CHARACTERS
Lucio and Pirgo eating at the castle, pencil, 2015
Lucio’s skeleton, graphite & ink, 2016 Lucio exploration, digital, 2014
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Lucio early poses, pencils & digital, 2016
THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
Noble the double cat The double cat companion of the evil Lucio Noble is a magical double cat with two brain two mouth two noses and three eyes, one is shared and can beyond physical object. he is a very powerful character but also lazy who decided to live in Lucios mansion so that his life would be as easy as possible. In truth he is a good double gamer and while Lucio think he
is his friend companion in truth Noble just want a good place to stay where he can steal magical ingredients and learn magical spell from the scroll in the potion room. He is a very mysterious double cat and nobody knows what to expect from him. He is very shady and everybody that really knows him, also doesn't trust him.
CHARACTERS
Smart, evil, unpleasant, sly, lazy, careless, sneaky, organized, fake, liar, smartass Noble, digital, 2016
Noble’s expressions, digital, 2016
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sketches, graphite, 2014
THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
The castle
EXPLORATIONS
The Eltz Castle in Wierschem, Germany was what inspired the final design of the castle. The spiky points of the roofs and the vertical lines of the building were a good base to create Lucio’s castle.
Castle explorations, digital, 2014
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Castle sketches, graphite, 2016
LAYOUTS
THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
Exploration, graphite, 2016
Exploration, digital, 2016
Exploration, digital, 2016
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THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS MANSION
Walls and roof textures fo the castle
CHAPTER
3d model
notes
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THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
STORY
The castle at night, digital, 2016
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Ulysse is angry, Digital, 2016
THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
Title SUBTITLE
STORY
Lucio became a huge flying monster, digital, 2016
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Lucio as a monster
STORY
THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
OH OH, digital, 2016
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THE EVIL LUCIO & HIS CASTLE
Lucio as a Donkey
CHARACTERS
Lucio last tranformation
Donkey sketches, graphite, 2016
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Lucio as a Donkey, Digita, 2016
And so Lucio sweared revenge for being transformed into a donkey, he really hated that! But he had what bad guys deserve...
THE END
BACK HOME
STORY
Eggibrd village sweet eggbird village
Back to the Eggbird village Ulysse was now able to fix the broken ZIppa oven.
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The eggbird village in a quiet morning, digital, 2016
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RUBECOLA MOTORS
RUBECOLA MOTORS
Title
CHAPTER
SUBTITLE
Orcs sketches, graphite, 2016
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Rubecola sketches, graphite, 2016
Clothing sketches, graphite, 2014
RUBECOLA MOTORS
Early concepts other ideas
EXPLORATIONS
In the beginning the Villain character was a robot called Ghunter from another dimension who wanted to came back but didn’t know how to communicate with the creatures of the Lands of Where.
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CHARACTERS
RUBECOLA MOTORS
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RUBECOLA MOTORS
The Rubecola F XII
VEHICLES
Historical Long trip hoverbike
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Thumnails
3/4 VIEW
ORTHO VIEWS
RUBECOLA MOTORS
Buildings Sketches
CHAPTER
Carburetors and Engines references
Final assets
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RUBECOLA MOTORS
Props Harvestable & destructables
Shop concept, digital, 2016
CHAPTER
Barrels
Energy Crystals
trees
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RUBECOLA MOTORS
Other ideas
CHAPTER
ISO, sidescroller...
Early oncepts, 2014
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Sidescroller exploration, 2016
Creatures, Digital, 2014
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LOGO & UI
LOGO & UI
IDENTITY
Logo Design Exploration
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Creatures, Digital, 2014
Logo early concepts, 2014 - 2015
LOGO & UI
IDENTITY
Logo final Design
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LOGO & UI
Title
INTERFACE
SUBTITLE
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LOGO & UI
In-game GUI
INTERFACE
SUBTITLE
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LOGO & UI
Mockups
INTERFACE
How the game would look like on phone screens
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LOGO & UI
Icons & Font
INTERFACE
Buttons & lETTERS
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Life is Magic! If you want... Be a Good Wizard!
Project by Leonardo Romano Printed and bounded in San Francisco, 2016 №1 Leonardo Romano Š 2016 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. Leonardoromano.com
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