Container City (part 3)

Week 17

Container City (part 3)

This week I have undertaken another task of modelling and texturing additional  assets for the level. I have used images I have gathered from Pinterest and other sources as a reference to help me model. For these assets I didn't have a specific tri budget so I tried my best to keep object as a simple geometry.

Lastly I was left with texturing. I have used 512x512 texture sheets.

Creating a blueprint was my last task for this week, I had no idea where to start but after a few tutorials I was quickly picking up the skills I needed to understand how blueprints work and how they can be used to add cool features to a level. I made a blueprint to make a extractor fan spin, adding a little immersion to an otherwise static level.

And here are some beauty shots from the level

Container City (part 2)

Week 16

Container City (part 2)

This week I have decided to undertake a task that I thought will give me a challenge, something I haven't had much experience in and concepting and a bar/restaurant sounded like an interesting job. To kick things off, I constructed a mood board by gathering images of different abandoned shipping containers and even stills from a game I used to play called Deponia, a point and click adventure game set in a makeshift and thrown together, dystopian environment.

To begin with I decided to use some painting and photobashing techniques to quickly generate some concepts. I found an image of a 3/4 view shipping container and by using other images and some paintovers I produced rough ideas to start with.

As a group we have chosen one that we really like to be further developed. To make the concept more unique I have worked on the silhouette to bring out interesting shapes by adding objects like gas tank, satellite dishes, wooden pallets and more.

At the end I came up with the final idea that was ready to be modelled.

After the concept was ready I was finally ready to model my bar, because we have been provided with a simple model of a shipping container all I had to do was use that and build additional assets around it. To keep myself organised I have set a budget of 11,000 tris for the entire model.

The next task was to texture I have used 1024x1024 texture sheet. The most important part of texturing was to keep it realistic so I have used real life images and textures in order to make the assets look Worn-out, dusty/dirty and rusty.

Container City (part 1)

Week 15

Container City (part 1)

A new year and a new project, this time it was a group project where the objective was to build a city using shipping containers as the main building blocks. As a group we had to decide between a Science Fiction or Dystopian city we went with a Dystopian city. I put forward the idea of a forest environment which the rest of the group liked, so I constructed a mood board for the scene. I then went on to construct a rough city using whiteboxing techniques

Mood board

Quick block out 

I was very excited to start building this setting not only because we could have pushed the technical side and use this project to learn a bit more about Unreal engine 4 and blueprints as well as be challenging to create busy environment with foliage, sound effects, particle effects, water effects and fog. Unfortunately the group wanted to go in a different direction and settled on a marble quarry environment instead of a forest.