Ruined Civilization, Market Places & Processions #1

Visual Forms

Everything on this blog will lead up to building my Visual Forms Sketchbook, Essay & Presentation.
So there will be a reoccurring blog posts well into next year.

What you can expect is research into some key themes i have been given to kickstart my project; Ruined civilisation, Market Places & Procession. I am allowed to interpret in anyway, as long as I have evidence backing up my argument.

Ruined Civilisation 

For this I will be mainly focusing on concept design of characters and landscapes in games & films. topic.
The games & films providing me with my concepts are things such as Destiny, Mad Max, Zombiecide, Matrix and Dishonoured and alike.

So all post-apocalyptic worlds this would be my argument that they are all ruined civilisations, civilisations that are not at their peak, but are now grumbling in the bowels of destruction clinging to that last piece of their civilised nature.
Firstly, the abundance of violence which is certainly not civil, is that is not our idea/ norm of what civil is. There is a threat to humanity as we when it in all of these texts; Darkness, machines and plague all an ominous threat to humanity's survival.

Also max max. I would like to take this excuse opportunity to look at things i am very interested in.
ZombieCide, i can talk on this about how you take part in you're own fate, it is a zombie survival base board game with beautiful concept

Looming extinction. a ruined civilisation (the last known point of the civilisation is before it breaks.)
A threat to cause one to be not so civil. thus ending civilisation.

Market Place Studies

I have been to my local market, I just wanted to portray a simple market place, no other interpretation. Just lazily simple.

Procession.

I will like to take a cultural route for this one, tapping into a bit of history no doubt a long the way. I will begin with local processions; my home town in England has a procession every year in the Summer. It has lots of fun and creativity involved, raising money for charities and awareness as well as advertising local (and now not so local) shops and businesses.
I am hoping that this will lead me on to other things such as fun fairs, circuses & festivals both local and around the world.