Background done for a platformer concept set in the Louisianna Bayou.
Alternative Background
Idel animation for a platformer concept
This was my design for level end model for Apolline's Adventure, based off of the mausoleum in New Orleans. The black Cockrell perched on top, is a representation of Maman Bridgitte, an often benevolent deity in Haitian influenced vodoo, the veve symbol floating in front of the mausoleum, is Maman's mark, or calling card.
This was a background done for a point and click adventure game for a game jam with the theme "Americana," being one of the only Americans in the room at the time, I was feeling a bit smug, waiting for team members to beg for my first hand expertise on the subject... Until I realized the insanely pervasive nature of american media. That bubble popped pretty quick.
Bubble popping aside, I did grow up on expansive, extended road trips of The States, nothing says "americana" quite like run down motels, on the open roads, in the middle of absolutely nowhere
Not to be an iconoclast of my motherland, but another classic piece of Americana is the greasy spoon. Cathedral to all things deep fried and covered in butter, where clientele come to worship the closing of their arteries. When I heard the theme I KNEW a diner had to be one of the locations.
And what's a greasy spoon without a jukebox? Fun fact, that jukebox alone took more time to render than the rest of the scene combined, you know what they say, "the Devil's in the details"
Fun fact number 2, the original expression for that idiom is "god is in the detail," which does more to illustrate how we've come to feel about detail than anything else.
Just as a frame of reference, this is how the game started.