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One of the most important aspects of creating an immersive city/community like CybertownNG is to first figure out the look and feel of the city. Architecture and colors are very important to communicate what the community is all about. We did not want Cybertown do be a dark and moody place like most games representing a futuristic scenario. We wanted to communicate a very lively future, a virtual and electronic city, a bright community that is inviting for people. This was actually quite a challenge but some wonderful talented companies and people have been working on the initial concepts for this project. While it is impossible to show you all the material we created in that initial phase, we still wanted to share some of the concepts to give an idea of what direction we were going in. The overal idea when we did the first phase of design in late 1999 was to simply work with various companies/individuals, educate them on the existing Cybertown community and give them a lot of freedom to come up with possible concepts for a seamless multiuser environment. You will find below some of the sketches and ideas of that phase. Simply click on the thumbnails to see higher resolution images. Concepts by New Pencil. Founded in 1997, New Pencil was created by a diverse group of artists who shared a vision of using new technologies to bring ideas to life. New Pencil views technology as a tool to facilitate creation and offers cutting edge conceptual work and executions to help clients make their vision reality. The combination of traditional disciplines merged with the latest technologies is a new tool for creativity….a New Pencil. New Pencil's clients includes Eidos Interactive, Mattel, Microprose and many more (including blaxxun interactive and Cybertown). New Pencil helped us in the early stages of conception for CybertownNG and you can see below some of their concepts for a virtual city. |
