The Pyramid - Sabina Piasecka

Here are some of my designs of pyramids that I have created for our game. They are ruined by the nature, desolated pyramids that fit our theme of the abandoned mayan-inspired world we decided to create.

Some of my inspiration came from the Mayan and Aztec ancient ruins as well as other pyramids and buildings located around the world.

 First I have looked at some of the buildings around on the internet and was checking in which kind of environment they were built and how they were decaying during the years. Since our game has a more or less swampy/jungle environment to it, I had a better idea about the kinds of textures I could be using.

I also have checked for some artworks of other people who have been inspired by these ruins and took it into consideration while creating my own design for our game.

I have imagined it fitting in our game as our ruins that we are modelling are quite old and the nature always wins over man-made things, so I decided to go ahead with a quick sketch in order to know how it would look like more or less.

I decided to make the pyramid kind of destroyed by the nature, and also wanted to make it more or less fitting with Lucian's designs of his pyramids, however I have added some plants and such around the pyramid and would like to have a tree that will be devouring on the pyramid.

I had a look at some ruins and abandoned places as well, not only the Mayan and Aztec places in order to get a better idea how it all looks like when many hundreds of years pass.

I was mainly looking for the ruins that were overtaken by the nature very heavily, so nothing very modern, mainly such temples and walls that are over thousand years old.

After I done my sketch for a Pyramid yesterday I decided to model it on Maya to see how it would look like in game. I wanted it to fit our game therefore I had a look at Lucian's designs as well while doing these so I could collaborate with him on making the building.

It is not yet finished and it will change its shape a little bit and will be made looking better, but this is the starting position for the further changes and texturing.
The texture put over it will be stone covered with moss.


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The Textured Pyramid -

The effect has been achieved using the mossy stone texture and then put over the pyramid. The trees and nature that will be devouring the Pyramid will be added later.

So I decided to go ahead and create another pyramid that looks slightly different as our another asset for the game.

This one has a little bit more funky look to it as I was inspired by the old square-cube looking designs that the Mayans did on their pyramids and buildings, therefore I have implemented it into my pyramid in order to make the design a little bit more interesting and pleasing for our player's eye.