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Dune: Awakening - Gelsphere Console and Thinking Machine Arena Exploration

For the questline Digging Deeper, I was tasked to not only explore the mood of the AI boss room and the presentation of a Thinking Machine hologram, but to design a gelsphere receptacle suitable for gameplay with waves of enemies. Early thinking machine exploration involved different graphic pattern FX that could be efficiently animated as an abstract representation of the boss thinking machine Legion. The gelsphere console needed to be not only a proper height for a player character, but thin and angled enough that it wouldn't be possible to stand on it.

Final console design

Final console design

Environment exploration with additional focus on warm vs cool colors

Environment exploration with additional focus on warm vs cool colors

Arena paneling exploration

Arena paneling exploration

Very early thumbnailing

Very early thumbnailing

Thinking machine hologram exploration

Thinking machine hologram exploration

Thinking machine hologram exploration

Thinking machine hologram exploration

Initial sketches for the gelsphere console

Initial sketches for the gelsphere console

Gelsphere console roughs

Gelsphere console roughs