I designed this set piece inspired by the world of Hollow Knight while I impatiently wait for Silksong's release!
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With this project, I wanted to challenge myself to build a whole scene from the ground up. I wanted my scene to be at home in the Hollow Knight world, but also wanted to pick a biome that hadn't yet been used in the series. I ended up going with an Egyptian-inspired hot spring loosely based on Khepri, the scarab-faced ancient Egyptian god who represents the rising or morning sun and the renewal of life. I thought it would be cool to explore the idea of the hot springs being inside a temple with an an altar to some mythic or historic figure, now long abandoned with parts of the ceiling and other structures collapsing and the foliage getting overgrown. It now only serves as a place of rest and renewal for those who stumble across this forgotten oasis.
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The assets and waterfall animation were drawn in Procreate, then edited and assembled into layers in Photoshop. Once that was done, I animated the parallax and particle effects in After Effects.