What if Metropolis: Figuring out a new composition

I've been having trouble figuring out a new composition for my city and decided to use Maya to create a rough scene and play with the camera. (Please excuse the extreme blocked out shapes!)

I'm quite liking 1, 5, 6 & 9. Any advice would be helpful!

Maya Tutorial: Exterior Lighting - Mid Day

Here's the midday lighting I did for the cottage, I rendered the sky and cottage separately so this enabled me to change the sky in photoshop.

What If Metropolis: Online Greenlight Review 2

What If Metropolis: Concept Painting Final

Here's my final concept painting for my city! Added some more texture to the ground as well as shadows and lighting. I also made a quick painted bird to demonstrate the scale of the buildings.

What If Metropolis: Work in Progress Concept painting 3

Almost done! Added the textures to the buildings, just need to add some light and shadow then clean everything up. 

What If Metropolis: Definitive Influence Map and Key Asset Page

Definitive Influence Map for What If Metropolis. I picked out the Ernst paintings that inspired my ideas the most and the kind of natural textures I looked at in my ideas. 

I also have my final key asset sheet, with my decided colours, these may change in my final piece but these were the original design choices I made.

Life Drawing: 12/11/14 & 19/11/14

12/11/14

19/11/14

What if Metropolis: Orthographic sheets

What If Metropolis: Work in Progress Concept painting 2

I started adding the base colours for my final concept painting! I used the key asset sheets I produced yesterday to help determine the colours, for now I think they're sitting okay but they may need readjusting later on. I also added the perspective in, I only added a slight bit of perspective because ernst's paintings are normally head on and I wanted to keep that element as much as possible. Now to add the details on the frontal buildings and give the impression of those in the back! 

What If Metropolis: Work in Progress Concept painting 1

Started on my final concept painting! Only really laid out the sky and ground though I feel like the colours so far are working, they may need adjusting once I start adding the buildings in though.