Category: Major Project

I have made two choices for the Major Project module – one was a team game, and the other was an environment art portfolio piece. Upon consideration and a path for a contingency plan, I gravitated towards the environment portfolio piece. This is not only something that I’m interested in, but it could also develop… Continue reading 2. Environment Art Ideas [Major]

In order for me to get any sense of idea about how effective my environments are going to be, it was imperative for me to understand the knowledge of level design as well, since environment design is the bigger part of level design. One noteworthy attribute of environment design is arguably the vertical spaces of… Continue reading 3. Research – Environment Design

For the sole indoor environment that I will be doing for the portfolio, I have decided to merge the airport terminal and underground station ideas into one. This will be a great way to better hone in my skills from a level design perspective as well as explore some additional elements to ensure this piece… Continue reading 4. Research – Heathrow’s Design & Purpose

I plan on using textures from the Quixel Megascans library to add more realism and depth into my environment pieces whether it would be indoor or outdoor spaces. Quixel (2019; 2021) goes over all of the basic details for artists to jump straight into any application and start using some of the materials and assets… Continue reading 5. Research – Quixel Megascans

To get an understanding of how effective the environments will be, I need to compare the tools used by both Maya and Unreal to choose which one is the most effective for designing the environments as intended. First off are the sculpting tools built inside Maya used to create a simple 3D environment alongside a… Continue reading 6. Maya/Unreal Experimentation

Before I get started with any production regarding the environment art pieces, I would need to plan out what kind of assets I will be making and how I will plan out the time spent on the overall project. For this reason, I have created an asset list of all of the things I will… Continue reading 7. Project Planning

Now that the research is out of the way and new skills have been picked up from experimenting with Maya and Unreal, I will be hoping that going forward that if everything goes to fruition, I will be starting on the production fairly soon. I am also hoping to follow what is exactly on the… Continue reading 8. Project Going Forward