THRONE ROOM - Throne of the Gnostic Queen - iMaginos245

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Starting my WIP thread; attached are a few shots from within Maya.
Some of the inspiration came from the novel Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds: a mad "queen" aboard a multi-mile long interstellar spacecraft. I also wanted to play with the idea of a Frank Frazetta-like barbarian with a spaceship; leopard-skin rugs on plastisteel floor panels...

More shots as work progresses.

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Work is continuing, although the "throne" itself is only blocked out somewhat. working to keep the pieces as modular as possible, with reusable components, but still enough variety.

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Quite a bit of work done, been too busy to post updates. Separated out most of the pieces, and imported everything on into Unreal Engine 4. Started detailing the pieces, with high-res versions for normal maps, ambient occlusion, and other texture details. Created masks to blend selections from a group of materials created in Substance Designer together. Color scheme can easily be changed out, but so far I like the white-grey-orange theme.

Learned some interesting things about changes to lighting in UE4 vs UDK/UE3, and started using some IES profiles, where fitting.

All for now, not sure if I'll actually make the deadline for final submissions!