Concept art · 3D · Health design
HDMS. Riget
Made for the Danish Rigshospitalet children's cancer ward: a game whose world is a giant spaceship that wraps the actual hospital, mapped accurately from Google Maps satellite data so kids reimagine their corridors.
Process & details
Facts
- Year
- 2022
- Client
- Rigshospitalet (Copenhagen)
- Audience
- Children in oncology
- Tools
- Google Earth · Blender
Notes
The brief was to get kids with cancer moving around the hospital halls, which they otherwise often avoid. The pitch we landed on: reframe the hospital itself as a spaceship. The actual real-world hospital building gets accurately captured (we pulled a 3D model of Rigshospitalet straight off Google Earth's satellite reconstruction) and integrated into the hull of a much bigger ship.
Naming is part of the joke — HDMS is the Danish abbreviation for royal naval vessel, and Riget is the colloquial name for Rigshospitalet (literally 'the kingdom'). So the kids' actual hospital is now a royal spaceship.
The narrative arc has the Earth becoming uninhabitable, the spaceship slowly growing to take more refugees aboard, and the children's wards as command decks. I did the concept art for the spaceship hull plates, the integration math for the hospital model, and a handful of NPC characters.