Project GHOST: Storyboard/Environment Thumbnails
Warning: The following project contains paranormal elements, gore and dark, mature/sensitive themes.
The art is part of a personal passion project for a potential horror game that I also submitted as part of my final year 3 university project. The narrative centres around hardboiled 45 year old Detective Peter Roberts, who explores a now abandoned high school in the forest of an old historical town called Rivenbrook twenty years after 1998 (the setting is inspired by Norwich in a fictional England). Peter tries to uncover what truly happened to Flynn Reed, a 17 year old student who was found dead by hanging two weeks into the search that dark winter, which Peter had taken part in when in the police force himself. The case was ruled as a suicide, but was in fact a homicide, much to Peter’s disbelief. What were they hiding from him?
I will update, shift around and separate out character art, environment art, etc. as the project goes on.
Final thumbnails. (six for now but may update to nine!)
Thumbnail 1: Flynn Reed, a 17 year old boy (before his death) cycling through the market in Rivenbrook. (Photobash inspired by old Norwich.)
Thumbnail 2: The silent dead of winter in the cursed forest, hiding a cabin across the creek.
Thumbnail 3: 20 years later, Detective Peter Roberts visits Flynn's grave to find it desecrated, searching for clues that lead towards his demise.
Thumbnail 4: Peter returns to the abandoned boarding school campus in the forest, determined to help Flynn. (Photobash is inspired by Barnes Hospital in Cheadle, Manchester). However, it appears someone is watching him...
Thumbnail 5: Flynn's ghost reveals himself to Peter in a school corridor, wishing to help him.
Thumbnail 6: Peter later finds the cabin in the woods, where religious symbolism is depicted as David’s ‘dead’ body is laying on his bed with ‘old’ blood splattered up the wall. Perhaps taking the shotgun out of his arms triggers something…