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>>546799

It's a mistake to think you have to take a large idea and produce a large piece from it. You don't.

You just have to take it as a start point in order to give whatever you chose to do some level of personality. With a scenario in mind, you could model something as basic as a staircase or ok... a corridor I guess, but it will, if you gave yourself a context to work from, have a personality. Always.

I mean, for the sake of argument, just imagine the corridor that you would see in the scenario depicted above - looks pretty different to the corridor of Nostromo in Alien, doesn't it?

>>>conveying what the fuck is going on to the viewer

Don't be a pussy. I mean, how hard really would it be to convey what was going on in that scenario to the viewer? It wouldn't. Imagine an official looking high-tech room, like a court-room or something like that. Then, distress the place: knock chairs over. Blood stains on the floor/wall. Oxygen bottles and breathing masks. Bloody bandages. A medical drip still standing beside a conference table which obviously had a dead body on it a moment ago.
In the background we see a large panoramic observation window showing the blackness of deep space and a few basic parts of the space-station's exterior that are visible from the inside.
Right there, if that image were done properly, anyone who has seen more than two sci-fi movies in his entire lifetime will have no problem getting some idea of the setting and what's going on, just from that one image.

Take a look at pic related. It's one image of an interior - and yet from it, we can tell what kind of space it is, when it is set, what kind of thing happens in there, and the kind of people that use the space.

Or, as I said, you can keep doing fucking corridors. Up to you.

>>544160

(that image was bullshit - try this one instead. Also Syd Mead)