Maël MARTIN - Concept art portfolio 2024

Outer Rim District is my graduation project at New3dge Concept art , which puts an end to two wonderful years of study.  The project was inspired by Hugh Howey's beacon 23 novel that I modified to make my own story. I pitched the project as if it was a retro Sci-Fi action thriller movie or tv show. 

Story :

Through this story we follow Owen the main character. He works as an engineer and pilot at a beacon station with other people. Deep in the depths of space, the beacon guides ships to avoid danger in District 8

With the beacon broken, a cargo spaceship collapsed after hitting an asteroid at the speed of light. It will crash on the neighboring alien planet: Ustura.

Owen decides to go aboard a shuttle to search for the wreck and possible survivors. While on the surface of the planet he can only see the damage. As he prepares to explore the wreck, he finds himself in the middle of a skirmish, against scavengers who are taking the cargo's crew as prisoners.

Process : 

for each keyframes I worked a lot on compositions ideas, story bits and designs to develop the story and visuals.

One of the most important element of the project was this cargo ship. So I spent some time to design it and explore different ideas for it. 

Lunar Data is a group project from school that we did for the Game Art and VFX students at New3dge. My team and I were under the direction of Arnaud Valette (art director) and Aurélien Fournier (Supervisor art director).

I was tasked to design the BioLab of the base which is an important part of the game, the main Level Design and keyframes for the VFX team.

Game art team Rookie post

VFX team shortfilm Rookie post

General Gameplay Level Design and keyframes.

For this task I combined the work of my team mates (Antoine Decamps, Aubry Mis and Harold Malespine) to create the entire playable part of the Moon base. (The previous character and robot are respectively from my team mates Julie Martinez and Anna Keaton).

Diverse Fantasy Keyframes 

Diverse Stylized paintings and keyframes.

Environment designs and keyframes. (District 974 world building)

This images were made within different class at New3dge. I used them to explore a personal world building idea that I wanted to expand.

Star Wars keyframes with UE5.

As a Star Wars fan I had a lot of fun doing these keyframes. It was almost like if I was the DP inside the UE scene going around to find the right camera angle. Then, I spent a bit of time to overpaint in photoshop.

Terrestrial Vehicle design.

This project was very fun and challenging at the same time as it was my first time designning something like that. 

First of all, thanks to the school and the people at New3dge. Thank you to Aurélien Fournier for giving me the opportunity to be part of this incredible program and for putting so much effort into it. Also to all the artists who guided me throughout all the classes, I learned a lot.

And finally, of course thank you to all my classmates, these two years would not have been the same without you guys !

and thank you for checking my work, cheers ! :) 

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