STUDIO 35MM ZIRUI ZUO
STORY BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION
The story of Nier: Automata taking place thousands of years after human extinction. Set in the year 11945 AD, the story revolves around a proxy war between the human-made androids and the machine army of invaders from another world. Lacking both emotions and true names, androids have particular attitudes that distinguish them from their fellows. The "YoRHa" android forces are commanded from the Bunker, a reconnaissance base in orbit above Earth. They fight alongside the pre-YoRHa androids on Earth (known as the Resistance) to drive back the Machines. However, Both Android and Mechnical lifeforms seem to grow human emotions gradually....
GAME'S SCENE
GAME'S SCENE
Created by advanced mechnical lifeform---Adam (chapter boss in original game) Adam has strong curiosity in human. He tries to learn everything about human society, so he built this copied city . Although with weird cubes and pure white facade, It looks totally like a small Europe city, but it's just an empty shell that immitate human society. Adam can build sonething like human, but he doesn't have emotions, which is the main reason caused his failure. Copied city reesign will be the central design part for stage 1, and inspiration for stage 2 (final drawings)
GAME'S VIEWPOINT: THIRD PERSON
STAGE 1: MID TERM WORK & BEFORE
6
NEW CHARACTER DESIGN
GAME FLOW IN ORIGINAL
STORYBOARD--IN COMIC WAY
SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP
COPIED CITY ANALYSIS
ABANDONED CITY ANALYSIS
ABANDONED CITY ANALYSIS (PLAN+SEC)
STAGE 2: FINAL & BEFORE
STAGE 2 FOCUS: TOWER+COPIED CITY ORIGINAL GAME SCENE, TOWER
floating city in <ALITA>
UFO, <Independent day> INSPIRATION If there's only skycraper in copied city it might be boring. Huge objects are fasinating, mysterious and fearful. A central tower can be built as the city center.
City up and down from <doctor strange>
City like those appear very often in sci-fi movie/games those days. Also in the original Neir game it has scenes like this. How their image shot were made is worth to look at.
<inception>
Samurai fight in Akira Kurosawa's films: Shots with sword fight can be learned
STAGE 2, WEEK 7~8 STORYBOARD
Falling---from copied city from last stage to new scene
Stage 2 city view, a look to the city tower
LANDING: character lands on top of the other city, looking at the bridge
Cube jump: Jumping from one bridge to another, across the cubic zone
Facing enemy: Facing giant robotic enemy in the central building
Robot chasing scene sketch
Chasing scene, shot behind enemy
Escape: Character jumped to another bridge, escaped from the gaint robot.
Under the tower: Standing in front of the tower, look above
Library inside the tower--full with human's creation from all fields
STAGE 2, WEEK 7~8 Architecture concept
Site perspective & buildings around
Plan, stage2 ver.01
Routr section, stage2 ver.01
STAGE 2, WEEK 9-10 Architecture concept
City shot 1: after landing
City shot 2: in front of a playground
City shot 3: Looking at the tower form the bridge above
City shot 4: On the bridge to the tower
City shot 5: shot above, plaza battlefield
City shot 6: Under the tower
Perspective & Plans stage2 ver.02
Section & Elevation. stage2 ver.02
Central transfer station section stage2 ver.02
Shot test, starting scene, from falling to landing
Tower concept drawing stage2 ver.03
Pascal's village: In chapter 3 of the original game, Our main character will enter a new area called "PASCAL'S VILLAGE". In this chapter the character meet mechnical lifeforms that only seek for peace, who tired of endless war. In the original game pascal village is only a small, old tree house with several tents...What will happen when copied city meet the village? What reaction will the main character have when facing more friendly robots? Those places are both created by mechnical lifeforms...Should be interesting to see how they live in a city scale space.
STAGE 2, WEEK 11-Final Series Stroyboard
1. falling from copied city
2. fall from one city to another
3. Falling, nearly reach the end
4. Walking on the strret
5. Approaching the central robot house
6. Comic (Partial), meet friendly robot
7. Comic (Partial), thinking: why fighting?
8. Ready to enter the building
9. Inside the robot house
10. Exit the building, looking at the bridge
11.Jump through cubes to the bridge
12. Nearly reach the tower
13. Under the tower, shot from above
14. Under the tower, look up
Stage2 ver.03 city perspective
Stage2 ver.03 city layer exploded diagram
Stage2 ver.03 section & elevation, showing route
End: Tower
Start: road under
Stage2 ver.03 Plan perspective
Stage2 ver.03 Plan, showing route
Stage2 ver.03 section, central robot house
Special room 1: Robot rest room
Special room 2: Small Library
Special room3: basement, energy room
Buildings in the city, set 1
Buildings in the city, set 2
Mechnical's life, Concept drawing