Business Cards

Above are the Abstract of the Project

and below are the business card designs.

Exposition Posters

Wireframe Shots of Final Piece

The final Polygon count of the entire scene was 19,343 tris.

Final Piece Renders

Economy

This is a shot showing how I reduced the polygon count (how economical the asset is) from 118 tris on the right, to 41 tris on the left. There is no noticeable difference in the rendered geometry, the shapes look almost exactly the same in-game, as it were.

Maya Viewport Shots

These are some screenshots from the Maya viewport, showing the wireframe and realtime process of constructing the environment.

Environment Renders

These are some renders of the work in progress on the final environment. As it is being constructed in a modular manner, there is more of an emphasis on creating good quality assets, then duplicating and changing them to flesh out the world.

Practice-Research

This is sketchbook work done as practice-based research for the environments, informed by the investigations and case studies.

I Am Alive

This game displays a pretty good example of a method I wish to use in my Riot Street scene - a washed out, desaturated colour pallet to give a pessimistic, oppressive tone to the environment. This game gives a great sense of the theme from these screenshots alone, making it a good piece of reference for my project, even if it only has one theme as opposed to my collection.

I Am Alive screenshots on Gamerant.com

I played this game on Xbox360 and have once again found that not having universal screenshot options is a big oversight for console makers. It is basically free advertising for their platform, could not be too hard to implement and would help out students and reviewers by not making them use PCs and external software/hardware.

3D Scene Development

Some screenshots documenting the development of 3D assets made for the final environment scene.

Colour Concepts

The first decent colour concept art for the environment along with moodboards, as requested at the Semester 2 pitch meeting. Concept art is not my strong point, but after some tutorials and practice, this is fairly presentable and definitely helps get across the ideas for the visuals of the final piece. Included is a moodboard for the Crystal Cave and Riot Street concepts, as well as a digital painting for each and an extra variant for the street, experimenting with lighting from a streetlamp.