Prometheus Tribute - University Project

AlexJWhite

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Hi everyone, this is my first thread on Polycount so a little bit of background on me. I'm a 2nd Year at the University of Hertfordshire and studying a BA(Hons) in Games Art and the current plan is to specialise in rigging, though I do enjoy modelling. I'm also collecting recordings of the SideFX Houdini lectures for the VFX strand because I quite like the software and would like to see how the software can be applied to games. Currently I'm knowledgable in Photoshop and Maya, texturing in Mudbox, and a little bit of sculpting in ZBrush.

At the moment one of the projects I'm working on is a 360 degree room to go in UE4 (should be getting a student code from the university within the next week or so, so marmoset renders for now) taken from a film of my choice. I chose to do the medical pod room from Prometheus as I personally enjoyed the movie and as I have to light the scene twice (once to imitate the scene, once from my own designs) I feel it presents some good opportunities. Below is a shot from the film and the point I'm up to.

So I'm building the room in a relatively modular fashion - the archways are duplicated, the ceiling I made by duplicating the sections round. I intend to break down the sections connecting the doorways into 2 or 3 parts so I can adjust the curvature, then I'll likely stitch it back together and the top section with the trenches I'll build separately soon.

All criticism, feedback and general advice is welcome - the room's at a pretty early stage of production, so hopefully I can implement everything pretty easily :thumbup:

Thanks in advance everyone!

PS My attached images appear to be added incorrectly, if someone could set me straight as to why the [ ATTACH ] tag isn't working, that'd be appreciated greatly.

AlexJWhite

Spent this evening working on the dark grey trim that goes around all the doorways, will be working on the sliding doors themselves next.

AlexJWhite

Another update, worked on getting some doors in place. ALso while rewatching the film for reference I noticed that there is a second door design in the scene I'm going to need to model that one too, which I will either do tonight or tomorrow.

AlexJWhite

Just a small update, been focussing on other work the past few days as I have a written presentation in a few days, but progress is progress.

Blocked in some of the ventilation above the doors (not particularly visible in this shot).
A little bit of bevel work in the ceiling.
Started the "trenches" in the wall on either side of the door.

Feedback always appreciated.

AlexJWhite

Modelled the door on the left this morning - only visible in the scene at the start where Shaw does in an inspects the medical pod - but it exists.

AlexJWhite

Bit of an update, sorry its been a while, but I've been utterly swamped with assignments, and only had more piled on, but I've finished 2 in time for Friday, so going back to giving love to my Prometheus scene

Brian "Panda" Choi

WOn't be able to say much until everything is blocked in or unless we have a concept, unfortunately. It looks fine up til now.

AlexJWhite

Hi there, sorry, I did attach the reference images to the first post but they didn't display correctly:

plastix

Prometheus production art


It might be helpful

AlexJWhite

Dear God, that's epic, thank you! I've watched the movie a billion times now but it's only so much you can get out of it.

AlexJWhite

Trying to make the "shelving" somewhat modular, as you can see in the reference it's all a lot of the same shapes. Need to switch it all around 'n' stuff, but at the moment, at least one of them fits the reference.

AlexJWhite

Created some modular shelving so I can vary up the sections between doors a little bit in my scene nice and quickly.

AlexJWhite

Almost there on the modelling, Some stuff to do behind the camera that'll be viewable in-engine which I'll base on some of the items in your link plastix but otherwise this is almost as much s I have time for now on the modelling.

Texturing and normals should be coming in the next update

Bedrock

Looking good! Would love to see this set up in U4 with lighting.

AlexJWhite

Thanks man! That's exactly where it's heading

Mr.Stolz

It's looking awesome,god i can imagine texturing this would be a nightmare xD a lot of fun,i meant Good luck! Is it meant to be more of a game environment? I'm just wondering about the polycount.

AlexJWhite

Texturing it's the easy bit, I'm currently doing the boring part which is UVing, and while I can do it without external programs, I do use Roadkill just because of how much it increases the speed of the workflow. The scene's currently 12 modular pieces to go into UE4, and within Maya I can rearrange the pieces of the shelf individually to break up any patterns.

It is a games environment, yes, and before baking and breaking down into modular pieces it was 270k tris, after modulating it's 150k tris, and it'll probably go down a bit more after I bake in the bevels - but I'm not particularly concerned due to time constraints; I have a 400k tri limit and I want to be working for companies like Creative Assembly, Ubisoft, EA and Guerilla games for the new generation of games, if only for their subject matter and art style. However, I am actually specialising as a rigger, not a modeller or texture artist etc - this stuff is more my fall back stuff. Looking into specialising in lighting a little too

AlexJWhite

Okay, so I may have totally misjudged the difficulty of texturing this so at the moment I'm blocking in textures and lights as I'm really pushed for time on this - lots of projects vying for my attention as the Semester comes to a close. Lighting's coming along better than the texturing, but it's steadily coming together.

Bummer6

Thank you for reminding me of the most uncomfortable scene in sci-fi history. *shivers*

AlexJWhite

You are quite thoroughly welcome, sir

JaySmitt

Nice job so far, this may be of help to you.

AlexJWhite

That is immensely helpful, thank you!

AlexJWhite

Another lighting and texturing update. Intending to revisit the models for the shelves if I have time before the hand-in as well as put the lights in above the doorways, but priorities are currently to re-colour grade and adjust the lights below the pod and then move onto my 6 other pre-Christmas assignments.

Tomcat

Love it!!.. I'm just starting to model the prometheus itself so nice to see someone else doing something related. Great work!!