As a child growing up with sci-fi world concept art, I always wanted to create one for myself. Here’s my latest attempt, featuring a in-the-sky container port, a (partially) wind powered transport ship, and of course, a giant city.
The city was created with OpenStreetMap via the blosm plugin and duplicated around a bunch. I didn’t use the default or actual image textures of buildings from maps and instead textured them myself via simple cube projections of a number of photos of buildings from Unsplash.
I got the idea of glass domes from one of my dreams. I remember the next morning when I recalled that dream I told myself: “I must find a use for those domes somewhere.” Trees and greenery was a followup to that idea. Afterall, what’s the use of glass domes if not to maintain plants? Integrating the greenery with the city was the natural next step.
Most sci-fi art I recall from childhood featured spaceships that served vague objectives, one usually would have to assume space travel or exploration. I wanted to be different, hence incorporating elements we’re familiar with – shipping containers – into the mix to tell a clear story. I got the idea for using sails on the ship from a recent news report on iceboating. The port was the next idea that came to mind and its layout quickly took shape once I figured out how the ship should look like.
Oh, I made a small animation with some behind the scenes.
Hope you enjoyed! Any comments or critique is welcome!
