Game artist
Jennifer Stevens
Digital Dreamer
Games Production – Style Matrix
Name: Jennifer Stevens
P number: P13203711
Email: p13203711@myemail.dmu.ac.uk
Enviroment 2: Stylized shop front
Overview: This is a Semi stylized shop building built from ground to roof suitable for a fantasy game featuring magical elements. The shop was specified in the brief to be no more than 15,000 tris and this model stands at 14,632. It uses 4x 1024 texture sheet each with its own accompanying, metalness, bump and roughness maps hand painted in substance painter and photoshop.
Research: Research for this project includes 2 moodboards of dilapidated buildings around the world which then lead me to develop a further 2 mood boards first looking at Russian architecture and then the work of artist/architect Antoni Gaudi. These mood boards lead me to develop thumb nails of building ideas which evolved into the potion shop concept. Paint overs of primitive shapes were then developed to form the general structure of the building. Colour experiments and themes were also trialed before applying to the final model.
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Other relevant imagery:Below is a screen shot of the transparent material generated in Unreal engine 4. Upon reflection the material would suit the purpose a bit better if it was less transparent or slightly frosted glass.
Conclusion: Personally I am incredibly pleased with what I have achieved with this project. I feel the final model is suitable for it intended purpose and is true to my quirky yet practical vision. Texturing is generally a weak point for me and so for the textures to suitable for the model makes me incredibly pleased. Looking back at development perhaps I should have made a few more experimentations and particularly some sketches of my concept would have alerted me to issues I discovered later on structurally such as gaps, which practically wouldn’t be good. Overall though I feel I have really achieved something with this project and I am eager to apply all I have learnt with this project to my next brief.