Phoenix Labs' Project Bismuth (Unreleased) - Radiant
Project Bismuth is an unreleased title from Phoenix Labs. I was brought into the project in 2023 to establish a style and to design all the many different areas the game has. My major contribution was to help the level design and 3D environment team with many different ideas. All images are published with permission from Phoenix Labs.
This page in particular is dedicated to the Radiant area.
This is the air temple. A lot of wind chimes and flags to bring more visual and aural interest when they're animated. Lots of erosion and floating rocks.
Another part of the radiant area is the inside of a castle. I wanted to lean on the gaudiness so I went to push the usage of gold. Also different mimic ideas! I love the bucktooth mimic.
Vault of gold. Would've been fun to let players walk on gold and have the gold coins splashing around their characters' feet as they walk around.
Imagining what the bathhouse in the castle looked like.
I think #2 was what ended up being used.
Sometimes my work was done very roughly to quickly give the team a visual idea of what a specific area could look like. This one was the entrance to the castle.
This was the same area, but done differently.
Some VFX exploration of what the radiant miasma could look. Very much inspired by auroras.
Exploration of the transition from the garden to the castle.