Witness Stand of the People

Very early on I knew that I wished for the courtroom to be more authentic to real courtrooms. You can see a very early layout before I had modelled any of the characters.This led to the gallery being behind the witness, but then the more I looked at it, the more I realized just how boring real life courtrooms actually are.

I eventually came around to the idea of making a Courtroom Gladiator Pit. Where the attorney and the prosecutor are in a sort of coliseum fight to the death, but its a legal argument etc etc.The Witness Examination concept. The world is an alternate timeline of the year 1910. Everything in the world is intricate and advanced, but because of the mechanical limitations of the period, everything is driven by visible mechanical gears, steam gushing out of every crevice, metal scratching and rubbing scattering sparks. Its like modern science is a giant angry robot that's brute forcing its self into existence.

Anyway, this witness stand is the first mechanical piece that I wish to use as a way of putting this concept into a key visual. It will feel clunky and slow, and very steampunk.