A research in seasons in environment design

This series of illustrations is from<Assasin creed3> (2012).They express the 4 different seasons .I'll list 2 elements of the difference .

1.Light and colors
From the spring one, the first pic ,the light is soft， it express the sunlight in spring,soft and most comes through the cloud ,let the audience feel this is the beginning of one year and it's the brand new story to tell. The tone of the colors in this image is tend to purple mainly,because purple is the color between tonal changes in temperature.

The second one is summer,what we can see from this one is the light turns to be very strong and dazzling，the effect is a little bit solarize , it use the yellow in the front of the image and blue in the behind mainly,audience could feel the Sharp contrast between the two kind of colors.

The third one use the representative color of autumn that is the golden yellow. Light is no longer exposure，the angle of the light is inclined,turns soft again.

The last one 's light is dark and grey,colours tend to blue and very weak, we could only see it from the clearances of trees.From this pic, the author used the physical reflection of snow mainly.




2.Props

The author used the different shape and states of the trees and grasses to express the different seasons,and the leafs mainly.