What did you draw from for inspiration for the Vasty Deep zones?
For the Conservatory, one of the other concept artists on the team, Dok Whitson, worked with my lead to come up with an approach and the one image that really stuck with me was a pillar he concepted. I thought it fit absolutely perfectly, so I then took that and applied it to the rest of the dungeon. Beyond that I mostly just focused on strong color schemes and wanted to make sure that there was plenty of variety and detail through it so people wouldn’t be seeing the same thing over and over. For the Labs I really wanted to push the lighting. I experimented with baking in ambient occlusion before in my other zones and I wanted to take it a step further and use the baked-in lighting to create a much darker feel. So I put a lot of effort into customizing the look so it was creepy and foreboding. And the direction that I got from Leah Swigart and Kyle Vallee was that it was supposed to be a lab horror movie so the rest worked itself out J . When I got to the Vestigial Cella it was about m
