Unearthly Challenge | Urpa | The Dwindling Eye

turpedo

Team Name: Urpa
Members: Kelvin "Turpedo" Tan | Jay "Jtown" Hwang | Phil "Scubamonkey" Donahue





Story

Our scene takes place in the distant future on a spacecraft where a man-made machine coincides with humans. This technological advancement was made to help control the ship more efficiently. In other words, this creation was made to be the brain of the ship. One thing the humans failed to see was what if this mechanical invention turned on its creator? What would happen? Our scene will hopefully unravel what lies beneath that scenario.

Concept



This concept is our first pass of what will be the brain of the ship. We have a pit that lies right under the core. We are thinking about having some mechanical hands that can come out from the hole and be able to clamp itself on people surrounding it.

The center piece that is hanging from the ceiling is considered the core of the system. We have an eye on each side of it totaling up to 4 eyes. Do you guys think it would be better to use one giant eye for the evil factor or do you guys like the multiple eyes?

Any critiques would be helpful! More concepts soon stay tuned!

turpedo

Hey guys, here is another concept of one of the pillars.

turpedo

Here is a few screenshots of what our first pass of the blockout is looking like. Our main focal point of this piece will be the eye(circle floating in the back). Its going to be supported by wires and techy pieces. We are planning to have a few elevator shafts that could take the player up to the upper level where the eye sits at.

We are aiming at a huge room filled with all sorts of machines that will be keeping the eye running. Along with that, we would like to have a lot of destructed objects to give a nice balance to the scene.

For our lighting we are looking at having busted out lights to give some nice contrast throughout the scene. Ultimately our main lighting will be around the eye. We are going to have some lights behind the eye projecting an eerie and illuminating feeling.

Blockout

turpedo

Hey guys we have a second pass of our eye concepted out. We wanted to really express that the eye has a mind of its own so we added a chamber up above the eye that holds its brain. We are going to have wires running from the brain to the tech around it.

Concept

turpedo

Here is our first 3d pass at our eye.

00Zero

Wow. You guys. This is really. Good. Sorry for. My broken Engl. Ish. I am Student from. It's good too see eyes that you made in dimensional 3. keep the work up good.

Drachis

Eye look s good so far, though i kinda miss the brain it was attached to in the concept

mdrid

great stuff. it gonna be a great output

turpedo

Hey guys, here is a textured version of our eye so far. This is in game using the UT3 engine. Brain is incoming!

g0th

Very nice. Would be cool if the eye always looks at the player

turpedo

thanks for the input goth. I took your advice and moved the eye to the camera.

I also got some pillar supports in, I have the concept of it but I have to scan it tomorrow at school.

Cody

great texturing! could we see some diffuse and spec flats? i'm curious how you got such bad ass results.

turpedo

Thanks Cody! Appreciate the comments, I'll have some textures uploaded real soon. I just got home from class and my stomach is growling lol : )

turpedo

Sorry for the delay Cody. Here is a few of our diffuse and specular maps.






We also have a few updates with scaling on our composition. The ceiling is going to have some sort of living organ combined with tech. I havent implemented the wires into it yet or changed the colors to mesh with the scene. I also am playing around with the spec so I can give it the wet look. Its looking too much like metal right now but let us know what you think!





Mech hands coming in next!

Klash120

LIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR! (and onions) >, <
S'what came to mind *shrugs*

Looking awesome so far~
Can't wait to see moar

turpedo

This is a new version of our composition.

Thefirston

this is really cool guys everything seems to be coming along

turpedo

Sorry we haven't posted in awhile we've been busy at work testing out composition and lighting. We'll have a pic of our scene up soon but for now here is just a couple of our assets individually.

Cody

Dude! I'm really digging you style! One of my fav entries. The meaty celing is pretty cool, might look more organic if you have some tendon type stringy parts, or some slime around the edges and dripping off.

Thanks for showing the flats, going to try to implement some of those techniques to make my metal stuff look better. Also, how did you get the lights on the doors and eye to glow so well? My emmisive maps aren't doing the trick. Add lights right up against it or something? I am using UT3 as well. Sorry for all the questions...

Jaytown

Thanks a lot Cody! We are really aiming for darker metals to bring more of that evil feeling to our piece. We'll have a scene shot for you guys by tonight or tomorrow!

s0id3

Nice, all your stuff comes together so cohesively. I like the organic tech route your going.

turpedo

Thanks for the crits, we are really trying to stray away from boxy tech.

Here is a few shots of all of our assets together. Lighting still needs to be tweaked but let us know what you think! Thanks

Cody

Really great render! i think it doesn't seem as coherent because there are so many colors going on, but i have no doubt in the world your guys' final will be beast!

Jaytown

Good observation Cody! thanks! we are gonna trying to work with the lighting a bit more to try to make it a bit more coherent.

Cody

A nice postproccessing effect would help tint the scene more toward a certain color range would probably do wonders. and easy to do as well.