What are these triangle things here?
TL;DRThe triangle details and floor perforations help establish a high-tech but industrial, non-luxury Consolidated Outland look and indicate where cargo can go, as part of finding the Pioneer's rules.
It's not easy to convey the art direction for something so new, because we don't have any comparison with other ships. We have one CNOU ship that is completely different in terms of function and size. So you have to come up with ways to understand that this is high-tech yet industrial. We don't want to let it look too fancy, but we have to let it look high-tech. It doesn't have to be over-designed, doesn't have to be luxury at all. It has to still be a working industry ship made for a B2B type of industry, part of a pipeline. So all these details, even if they don't have particular functions, help me to convey what kind of details we need to put there, how to distinguish it from Crusader, how to distinguish it from RSI, how to distinguish it from Argo. It's research just based on finding the personality of CNOU in the industrial part.
I like the little perforations in the floor.
All the perforations are meant to show a little bit, with the parallax, the maglev cargo plates, so that we can show with subtle details where the cargo is going to be and where it's not, where you can pass with all the lines and where you can't. Basically, what I'm doing right now is trying to find out the rules for the Pioneer.
And by extension, CNOU, Consolidated Outland.