{"id":4898,"date":"2020-04-20T12:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2020-04-20T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:04:19","slug":"midnight-gospel-visual-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/?p=4898","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Gospel Visual Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Since today is the premier of Midnight Gospel on Netflix, I thought I’d share some early drawings I did when trying to figure out some design rules of the show, as well as some key locations based on the episode descriptions (that eventually changed so much that much of this got scrapped). I hope y’all find this cool\/interesting:<\/p>\n

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Pen had made a rough animatic teaser that had scenes of sparse buildings resting on green hills. I wasn’t sure how to approach building shapes or if they would change from episode to episode (they did). I was also trying to think about using big blocks of basic colors to create unity with cluttered structures.<\/p>\n

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We were thinking about how to visually convey “simulation” and we were thinking about placing environmental details like sprites. We actually did do something like this. I built up a library of natural world shapes for designers to plug into their backgrounds. This is maybe my first attempt at drawing Clancy, before we knew what Clancy looked like.<\/p>\n

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As you can see all the plants are designed as closed shapes so they could easily be placed in any scene if needed. We could flip them and re-color them for variety. This was only helpful sometimes haha.<\/p>\n

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Clancy’s design was labored over for what seemed like months? Pen eventually settled on the final thing. I don’t think I had much input on his design except for suggesting that the hat zip upwards rather than flop down.<\/p>\n

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“Space Theory” was a big thing for me. Every episode would feature a space travel sequence, sort of like how certain anime always features a transformation sequence. So this had to feel really satisfying. I’d been mulling my ideas for space ever since working on Manly. I wanted this version of space to feel really visceral and tactile.<\/p>\n

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This was my first test: trying to emphasize the idea of moving through dark matter.<\/p>\n

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I was really apprehensive of Photoshop so I was initially sketching everything out on paper.<\/p>\n

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And then trying to marry that with digital techniques. This was my first concept of Clancy traveling to Earth in his Beach Body avatar.<\/p>\n

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The house in “space” would need to exist somewhere deeper into nothingness. Between universes. So there would be no stars or indication of distance.<\/p>\n

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This was pretty much just a retrace of Pen’s design that I wanted to do a nice analog drawing of. I really dug the eerie simplicity of it.<\/p>\n

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Here’s an early white house. And then a bunch of sketches that never turned into anything.<\/p>\n

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This is a massively more complex version of the Bardo Pond that appears in episode 5. We ended up having a guest designer David Jien help with the final design of that environment. Much more elegant than my nonstop chaos. \"\" \"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

This was going to be the barn where Clancy kept his simulator. I based it on some of the symbolic elements of the Chariot Tarot card. You can see the wheels and horses and canopy above. The simulator would sit on the block of matter in the center.<\/p>\n

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Hey Since today is the premier of Midnight Gospel on Netflix, I thought I’d share some early drawings I did when trying to figure out some design rules of the show, as well as some key locations based on the episode descriptions (that eventually changed so much that much of this got scrapped). I hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4922,"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}