Undersea Research Station
At the end of the year, our project at work is wrapping up and I had a few work days to devote to making something cool before we all break for the holidays, so I created this environment scene to use for the start screen and wide narrative shots in our game. Before this all we had was some very outdated assets from a bygone era of the game. Since I only had a few days to go from zero to final scene, and since we wanted a small memory footprint, I limited myself to a handful of buildings, a couple of rocks, and two or three particle systems to put the scene together. I made heavy use of the 'Trim-Sheets' texturing technique for the buildings.
This is the final screenshot in Unity with lighting and some particle fx.
I used these images as inspiration.
A quick sketch, 4x3 inches in a sketchbook.
The idea was to make the seabase in a modular kit-bash method since it will only be seen from a distance.
I used the trim-sheet method to texture the seabase components. Here you can see the strips of trim in zbrush.
I baked the high-poly trim-sheet onto a quad and authored this tiling material in substance painter.
Once I had the trim-sheet, UV mapped the different strips onto different loops of the relatively low-poly geo.
Here's the basic plan for the cliff-side stones. A quick sculpt in zbrush and then several passes of decimation-master to get the final geo.
Rock material built in substance painter.