Mutant Lab scene
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sup!
Im doing some more props and some environment stuff so I have that in my portfolio, even though i wanna be a character guy. So I thought id combine the two and do a small UDK Scene with some crazy mutation experiments. The plan is to have a lot of different mutations and some real traces of experiments, like an opened up mutant at a table, body parts on the floor and stuff like that.
Saw alien 4 a couple of days ago and i really liked the mood and different types of alien mutation experiments there. Started with this yesterday and im going to work on this during the weekends end whenever i have time after work.
I know the baby is kinda weak, specially hands and arms. Im going to do a lot more on him but ill happily take any C&C.
sup!
Im doing some more props and some environment stuff so I have that in my portfolio, even though i wanna be a character guy. So I thought id combine the two and do a small UDK Scene with some crazy mutation experiments. The plan is to have a lot of different mutations and some real traces of experiments, like an opened up mutant at a table, body parts on the floor and stuff like that.
Saw alien 4 a couple of days ago and i really liked the mood and different types of alien mutation experiments there. Started with this yesterday and im going to work on this during the weekends end whenever i have time after work.
I know the baby is kinda weak, specially hands and arms. Im going to do a lot more on him but ill happily take any C&C.
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ive been working a little with the mutant today, trying out some different stuff. changed the face to make it more human, want to focus on the fact that whoever's doing these crazy experiments are doing them on humans and cross-breeding them with something.
Id love to get some feedback on that though, which one do you guys like best. I guess i also could use both as variations as I am going to have like 6-7 in tubes and a few on beds. Though i would make them more different than they are right now.
and this is a small sketch of things i want to add to the pods
In both senses of the word.
http://qtan.homestead.com/hydralisk.html
Looking forward to seeing what you do with this.
And yes, it's very alien-esq. Watched the Movie last week and thought it was a really sexy scene. My first mutant is basically the same as the first one you see in the labs there.
So I downloaded Udk and started blocking things up. Really simple so I didn't take any pics. Hopefully Will get some more done tonight and post some pics.
I want this to be sort of a playable level, I mean it's a portfolio piece first and foremost bu if I could turn it into a playable "level" with a little atmosphere and mood that would be awesome. I've come up with a story based on a project me and a friend of mine started on a few months back:
Something has gone wrong on a remote scientific base. We lost contact with the base a few days ago and we've just learned that the facility was destroyed, cause unknown. That facility was a significant investment and several of those project were high-priority for the government. There is no way to know what happened since the explosion wiped out all traces. However, new experimental tech allows a single person to travel back to a single instant in time and move around in this frozen moment. The player is chosen to go back in time and by studying the environment is supposed to figure out what happened. This experiment tech is unstable which results in sometimes moving outside the frozen moment and interacting with objects and people around him. (this frozen moment thing is to mainly remove animations and narrow the scope, to make it more of a visual experience instead of gameplay focused. Although I'd like animations just to add some life to this thing ) so its going to be a bunch of mutants in cool poses, frozen in mid air, and maybe some scientists trying to survive.
Will probably cut some stuff out as this keeps on evolving but that's the vision. Sorry for text instead of pics :P
made some wires and started a little with the floor. Also going to add some crazy nice pipes in the background.
Started with some pipes but im not really digging it. Feels a bit cluttered. Im leaning towards making this an underground facility and I want to have some stone in the background. Sort of cave like with uneven walls and everything sort of converges over your head.
But hopefully ill zbrush some of the stone tomorrow and start with another mutation. Going to be very Alien 4-ish. By the end of the weekend ill probably have a low poly version of the tank too.
picz:
but then again your the man with the vision lol im curious to see how the cave idea would look
Update:
Tried some different rock ideas on the background but they didnt really turn out well, going to give it a serious go tomorrow so no updates on those. And i have finished a concept for the next mutant, so that is definitely going to happen this weekend.
Started blocking out the rest of the environment. Going for an underground thing. Kinda the same thing as the place where wolverine got his claws from the x-men movies. Also thought about making this some kind of nazi experiment. It would be a facility where he tried to create the perfect race. But a little more modern than the 1940's.
Placed some banners where i might hang some swastikas.
But thats just a thought, might hang some random evil corporation logo there instead who are doing experiments just to make some money.
[edit] what i mean is that now it's gone from this awesome showcase of some super cool tech stuff, into a giant room that is going to look cluttered as fuck if you try and match the detail from the bio-egg-tube-things to the rest of the scene.
i presume it's inspired by the viewing galleries in surgery theatres:
these rooms are usually pretty small and sparsely detailed. but you have this fantastic fine detail and i'm not sure how well it'll fit into such a large and open scene.
hopefully i am completely wrong and it turns out beautiful, very interested in seeing what you do with it.
Also, i really love the work so far! Cools stuff!
second: i think you guys are right. After thinking it over it would be nice to narrow the scope of this project to just one shot. At least for now. Thanks for that.
So this is basically what im doing now :P
So if you have any ideas, i would like them. paintovers appreciated
Btw, I know the wires looks weird and low poly, I just took the high poly ones that looked awesome and reduced them just to get the feel, will adress it as well as add the top level wires from the first series of pictures
So, I had planned to do some sort of green liquid with a mutant inside but then i found a nice concept of a cryo tank and started playing with that. But I am not set on anything so if you have any ideas id love to hear them.