New Renaissance Main Characters

New Renaissance Main Characters

Detective sort of character for the first, femme-fatal sort of character for the second. The main character is supposed to be a sort of veteran that turned to a detective. The idea is influenced by Snake Pliskin from Escape from New York, Rick Deckard from Blade Runner, Vincent from Collateral, private sector military, and loads of noir characters, and Eric Bana from Munich. The latter is influenced by the bond girls, most of the same female companion characters from the aforementioned films. Mostly the character traits they would possess though fitting an archetype, would resemble the traits from the characters in the film Brick, where their roles weren't quite as obvious.

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New Rennaisance Newlo Odessa

The main focal points of the city that I wanted the viewer to see where 4 main locations. Some industrial areas, the financial district business parks, old towns overhanging discs and a central tower that resembles something like the two towers in new york. I really want the more futuristic things to look like something that came out of bauhaus and some of the glass and neon structures in tokyo built ontop of historic buildings with french balconies and whatnot. I love how the wires and signs poke into the streets of tokyo and makes these really narrow pathways. Moreover I like the idea of the world trade center tower being seen from any location in the city. I started out by doing a bunch of thumbnails playing around with compositions, picked the few that I liked the most and reworked them into something a little more tight.

New Rennaisance

This is my map of a city in this world I'm calling "New Rennaisance." It was really fun making this map, it really pushed all of the limits of my knowledge of Photoshop I had.

I'm a particular fan of low fantasy type of stuff so I didn't go too extreme in future or past. This would be a few hundred years into our worlds future. A new age has come, New Rennaisance takes place at the beginning of new technology that can cure the world of all of its diseases: hunger, labor, medicine, and warfare. The world is the product between the emergence of people and technology, but it's not dystopic. There is zealous fundamentalism against this new step in technology and political turmoil. Most of all financial turmoil. Because of the public awareness of it all, riots have broken out among parts of the city and corporations have turned the way of gangs. Though now under martial law, there is tension throughout this city. Areas are very dangerous while others are upperclass safe-havens.
Few factions demand technological progress while others will kill to stop it.

Examples of this cutting edge technology will be seen throughout New Rennaisance, like robotic implants, warp technology, advanced genetic engineering, the dawn of androids, manufacturing.

In short, imagine the earth in startrek right before it became a utopia. This would be the few decades transitioning into a united technological world.

The city is called Newlo Odessa (random name). It's divided into 5 districts.

-Port District

This is where all of the laborers work, there are few buildings in this district, though few they make up for in size. Few of the factories go deep into the ground acting as mines. The primary sources of labor are fishing, mining, and manufacturing. Many of the laborers live in the dormitories in a few of these buildings but most of them commute from Lower Oldtown. This is also the source of importing and exporting.

-Financial District

This is the upperclass business district, the by-standards will be clothed in suits. Many of the businessmen live in the waterfront district. Most of the public haven't been beyond the borders of the financial district in years since the declaration of martial law. There are few towering buildings that can be seen in the horizon without windows.

-Waterfront District

This is the Malibu of Newlo Odessa, there are high-scale stores and large condo complexes overlooking

-Uptown

Not as nice as the Waterfront district uptown houses the middleclass and some historic buildings.

-Oldtown

Most of Newlo Odessa populates these areas, though because of oldtown being the mouth of the metro and sewer system, oldtowners populate between the crevices of the whole city, and parts of the underground. This is the lowerclass portion of the city, it's aesthetically pleasing historic buildings have unfortunately been covered by a layer of new city in attempt to make room for overpopulation. The earliest settlers founded oldtown upon the formation of Newlo Odessa and is therefore the oldest part of the city, thusly named "oldtown" The lower portion of Oldtown is where most of the people live but many of upper-lowerclass live on the upper part of the city, this is also where some of the labor is provided.