Photobash exploration. This was the first thing I did after resource gathering. Just starting to bash some ideas together to get a sense of the locale.

Photobash exploration #2

Architectural exploration. Here I'm trying to develop the visual vocabulary of the culture combining a bat skull with some motifs borrowed from mesoamerican cultures.

I wanted an exciting location for this, and the potential for exploring the "dormant" aspect of this volcano was enticing, too.

Another angle with a more like reverence mountain akin to Mt. Fuji.

More visual language sketches. Kind of a bat worshiping civilization.

Flora + fauna ideas and how they might have reclaimed the ruins.

How vegetation could be implemented into the environment.

This was a more like map sketch of the location before I setup the scene, let me plot out structures first.

Base 3D composition I chose to showcase the elements of the civilization.

Color comps exploring other atmospheres

Scene mockup