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Cathedral concept art | Deathbound

Cathedral concept art made for Trialforge Studio. In 2023 I joined their incredible team to work as a prop and environment concept artist for Deathbound, a souls-like game released in October 2024. It is a pleasure to share those. ♥

The Cathedral is an important area in the game and we needed its interiors to match its impact in the story. It was an old major government building that serves nowadays as a last stand by one side of the war.

I was responsible for creating concept art for some of its rooms and props, including their set dressing. To speed up our pipeline, the level designer and 3D team trained me to transition from drawing concepts of the set dressing to simply placing them directly on the scene using Unreal, and also to import my Blender blockouts into the engine for testing.

Exterior Balcony concept art

A balcony. I started with a rough sketches (next image), then modeled a rough 3d base to test and refine the scale in-engine alongside the level designer and 3D teams while refining the concepts both for the structure and the dressing.

It was so nice to use Brazilian brutalist buildings as inspiration, such as Sao Paulo and Piaui’s tribunals.

Final, ingame version

We used this mood shot to discuss an important cutscene.

The final result is pretty similar!

Another view of the same cutscene.

Life Garden Mood Shot

Life Garden mood shot — the art director suggested using vibrant, almost neon-like flora and lights.

Ingame Life Garden view

Window Room

We started with an engine blockout that I exported onto Blender to keep refining and sketching

Window Room renders with color and decal suggestions

More moods and ideas

This area has some of my personal favorite works for the game.

Genesis Garden

Genesis Garden area: Mood shot

This area also started with an engine blockout, and then I had freedon to model and suggest structures as necessary.

Genesis Garden refs and more angles.

Elevator entrance render and mood test.

Garden Corridor concept art

Garden corridor: Sketches on top of our initial blockout

Final concept – I made that large bronze panel to suggest it was a view of the city, crystalized as an artwork that would help structure this old, important government building.