(UE4) Bioshock Rapture Apartment

nikkiPito

Hello Polycount! This is my first post! I’m a senior game art student at Champlain College, specializing in environments. I’ve been wanting to make a Bioshock inspired scene since I learned how to model considering Bioshock was a huge inspiration to me - one of the first games I played when I realized games truly are art! 

I decided I wanted to create a luxury apartment that would exist in the Bioshock Universe and be inside Rapture, but would be of my own design, heavily inspired by the game.  I’ve currently jumping around between modeling for the apartment as well as fakes for the city outside, and messing with lighting and “atmosphere” (I’ve added some dust particles, and distortion particles outside the windows to make it look like water, as suggested by Ross Littlejohn who made an amazing re-creation of the Medical Pavilion). I also just added God rays in the method demonstrated by Dave Wilson in this tutorial, which I decided on doing after realizing how unnecessarily complex Unreal's method of doing it was (or at least for what I was doing, it seemed like overkill)!  

Anyways, I'd love and appreciate comments, critique, and any helpful tips!

Here's some of my reference, I have a HUGE PureRef board, so it's hard to post it all. Here's some screenshots from it. It's mostly anything Art Deco I could find online, from lamps, to chairs, to architecture.



And of course, ref from Bioshock:



Here's some shots of my scene currently:

Above is the living area, opens into bedroom, balcony, bathroom.


Above is the living area, opens into bedroom, balcony, bathroom.


Above will be the bedroom, will have a bed with curtains.


Above is a bathroom. Will have a large tub on the other side of the wall the sink is on.


This will be a "balcony" so you can see the city outside. (Ignore the pink light for now! Hoping to add in neon signs later)

As mentioned before, c & c very much welcomed and appreciated!!! (Sorry for the super long post!)
http://nicolepito.weebly.com/

Shyralon

I really like the idea and the blockouts are looking good so far - Can't wait to see how it turns out, will keep an eye on this thread

nikkiPito

Shyralon said:

I really like the idea and the blockouts are looking good so far - Can't wait to see how it turns out, will keep an eye on this thread

Thank you so much! I appreciate it!

JamesMeader

Solid start and really cool collection of reference.

Look forward to seeing more.

You may have seen it but worth looking at Scott Homer's Bioshock scene, a breakdown is in Vertex 2 which is free to download. 

The Rizzler

Nice, good work with the reference. Especially like the 'sky' light, you should end up with a really nice ambience

purplekami

Loving the windows so far and how the ceiling connects with the walls, can't wait to see more

nikkiPito

The Rizzler said:

Nice, good work with the reference. Especially like the 'sky' light, you should end up with a really nice ambience

Thank you so much! I haven't done this type of lighting before, so I hope so!

nikkiPito

stepans said:

Really fascinating project. I sincerely wish you good luck with it. One questions, how did you make that soft ambient light in your scene and light shaft coming from the window? I have underground scene with blocked access yo outside world, i can not recreate such effect with sky light....

Thank you very much! It's basically a cylindrical mesh with an unlit material on it, the textures are also animated on the material. I linked the tutorial I followed in the description, it's super easy! Here's the link again

nikkiPito

JamesMeader said:

Solid start and really cool collection of reference.

Look forward to seeing more.

You may have seen it but worth looking at Scott Homer's Bioshock scene, a breakdown is in Vertex 2 which is free to download. 

Thank you so much! I haven't see it yet, so I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!