Axtlan's Blender - Krek
Putting some of the Krek ideas into 3D to see if they still work with volume and light. Testing the surfaces, transparency, heavier areas, color inside the material, and how the forms sit against the ground or host material.
Krek should still read as one process here: solar conditions changing suitable material, crystal growth, pods, and source areas all connected. This is not the final science of it yet. It is mainly a test of what survives when the drawings become objects.
Front wireframe view of the Krek forms. Checking whether the main shapes still read without materials.
A few variations and their source areas, prepared to be reused inside Unreal.
Trying to save time between the design pass and the final export without losing the useful differences.
First Krek crater pass. Testing how the concentration point changes the surrounding ground.
Another crater variation, wider and less clean around the edge.
The Krek pods. Still one of the stranger and more disputed parts of the setting.
The poppy was the starting point, but the flower is removed. The narcotic effect comes from Krek crystal growth under different Seventeen Suns conditions.
Krek pods, Krek pods. What are you going to do when they start growing near you?
Top view of the pod. I still like the root pattern here.