This is a concept for the power generators located within the prison's surface building. I based there design on ww2 turbine generators. I plan to add colour and lighting affects to the turbine to complete the image, as for the colour? I plan on using red to visually through the viewer off and put them in an uneasy state of mind as red naturally signifies to us the threat of danger which will help the viewer/player realise that this base and the people within are not what they appear.

Some Ideas i came up with while on the bus The first upper most designs were basically the prison's exterior. I liked the left design as to me it resembles a ww2 pillbox which matches my theme for the project.

The second set of designs focus on the idea that the planet has largely been mechanized or mechaformed into a synthetic world much to the dismay of the indigenous aliens. The core of the planet has been converted into a type of reactor which receives bursts of energy from satellite orbiting in space that convert all sorts of space matter into energy. The highest ranked alien threats are also held here, there restrains are powered by the reactor core of the planet itself! The image on the right depicts a shuttle transporting Alpha level alien prisoners to the planet's core to be held in the maximum security holding chambers located within.

Here are my early attempts at city designs one from street level and the other a view of the city.
I created these a test for environment painting for which I still feel a bit awkward, I feel I need to do more conceptual designs on the look and feel of the city and the prison's exterior as of right now I'm not quite satisfied.

After looking around the internet and talking with friends and family I liked the idea of the head warding offering strong resemblance to a German officer in affect I'm playing of stereo types to achieve a strong seance of association. I also wanted to give this guy a slight hint of mad scientist or doctor to suggest that this guy deals with experimentation and genetic research on the prisoners in order to endow himself with the mental capabilities of the alien species such as telepathy, pyrotechnics and other forms of physic powers. I really liked this idea as it draws a strong correlation with the occult research of the Nazi's in ww2 this in affect led to my decision to perhaps base my design and feel of the project on a ww2 theme injected with a Sci-Fi twist.

I took the rough sketches of the wardens body shapes and used it to flesh out some armour designs as I wanted the corporation that ran the prison to have dealings in other shady business and to be affectedly a private military force.
After discussing ideas with the group a number of problems were brought up about having an all alien cast might muddle the differentiation between the guards and the prisoners.
I also felt that this idea was not working and wanted to take it in a new direction by re designing the head warden as a human and fleshing out the story.

I continued on to drawing up some rough sketches of this guy's anatomy but I couldn't quite decide on what I liked, however I was leaning towards the upright but slightly hunched look.

I started with various sketches of alien creatures as a starting point for the character design module.
I started to like the look of the guy in the bottom left so i decided to run with him as the head warden.