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. 

What if metropolis: Key Assets

Testing some different colours with my keys assets, I'll choose the ones I like and create a final page for them. 

What if Metropolis: Final concept progress- colours and sketch

Following everyone's advice I had a play with colour. I think either 2 or 4 could work well.

I also created a quick sketch for my final concept. 

What If Metropolis: Colour comps

Following Phil's advice I changed around the composition of number 7 from my last page. I made the clock less central and made the rock at the front smaller. I also wanted to test which colours derived from Ernst's work would fit best for my city. 

Composition wise I like 1 best. I feel like keeping most of the middle third empty gives a feeling of absence to my city much like some of Ernst's paintings. I also like the colour of 1 best though I could possibly add some red and orange to help balance out how green it is. 

What if Metropolis: Compostions

Some quick compositions I put together with some of the props I already had, I used black and white here so I could just focus on the composition itself. In terms of the kind of city I want to create 6 or 7 I think would be my best option if they were worked into.

Maya Tutorial: Alley Digital Set Lighting

Here's the Lighting for the Digital Sets tutorial. This one gave me a few problems, Maya kept crashing and some of the tools disappered, I also had to judge by eye the intensities of the lights because  mine came out a lot brighter. About half way through I noticed that the lampost was blocking the poster and changed the shot at the end to get a better composition.

What if Metropolis: Building thumbnails

Did some thumbnails for buildings I thought could fit in with my clock tower design. I tried creating unusual organic forms that could possibly be arranged into a street scene (influenced also by de chirico's work). I'm going to take these buildings and use them to inspire some compositions. 

What if Metropolis: Key asset thumbnails

I did some thumbnails for what I thought could be key assets for my city. I quite liked the idea of a clock tower and a bath house (Inspired by aquis submersus) in my city. From previous thumbnail sheets I felt like the green colour scheme was working partially well. 1 from the clock towers is my favourite and I think 2 or 3 would work best for a bath house though thouse blocky looking buildings are going to have to go! I want to design some buildings and set up some compositions tomorrow, I think fitting them to suit the first colock tower will make my work interesting.  

What If Metropolis: City ideas

 I really want to push one of these ideas that I now have for my city. 

The first is to create a mix of the structural work ernst does with the most organic work he creates. The city would be built into and around the organic looking structures.

The second is to use only the organic paintings to influence how my city looks, creating buildings from them. 

I quite like both ideas but I'm stuck on whether to include both types of Ernst's work or just the one, feedback is appreciated because I want to sort out my composition and key assets asap!