Helleren Norway - Lowpoly Diorama

HELLEREN NORWAY - LOWPOLY DIORAMA

This diorama was made as a final assignment for the first year course 3D1 at DAE Digital Arts and Entertainment. Before coming to DAE I had previously worked with Fusion 360 making models for 3D printing and had made some basic scenes in blender using models found online. At DAE I had my first real introduction to modeling and quickly became very passionate about Maya and modeling in general.

The assignment consisted of making a simple diorama with a few buildings, a minimum of 5 props, 1 vehicle and restricted the students to only using basic color and opacity maps. In the end I ended up with a total file size of 14 MB and 30k faces.

The two houses in the scene are modeled after 2 historic houses under the Helleren cliff located in Jøssingfjord Norway.

Here is the original Sketchfab upload which I handed in for school. Sketchfab limits you to being able to place a maximum of 3 lights, and on top of that the school task prohibited us from doing evening or night scenes. While I'm happy with the result I uploaded back then I felt the scene had more potential as a golden hour / early evening scene, so I revamped the lighting setup and rendered everything in blender for this contest.

Thanks you for having a look at my work and have a great day. :)