Life on Mars?

Latest assignment from SCAD Game Design program. Modeled, textured, lit, rendered everything and also recorded an arrangement for the song that inspired the scene, Life on Mars? by David Bowie. I pulled out the ol' 2012 MacBook Pro just so I could access Garage Band one more time.

There is a really interesting dwelling built into a cave in Northwest Arkansas called the Beckham Creek lodge. I tried integrating cinematic sci-fi reference with this idea of embedding the hotel lobby into the side of a cave. I identified some of the modular components I would need to start building out and scaling up the scene.

I modeled and unwrapped everything with the Maxon One suite, textured with Adobe Substance Painter and Designer, and rendered with Unreal Engine 5.3. Here's a closer look at the hero asset.

Here's an early process shot of the layout of my scene with most items UV'd. I went very low poly for the floors and walls, choosing to rely on textures to sell the detail. I used blueprints in Unreal to "clone" the wall and floor panels throughout the scene.

Speaking of walls, I used Substance Designer to create a texture for the rock wall. Ended up using World-Aligned textures via William Faucher's Easy Mapper to project the texture onto the rock shape.

Here are a few frames I pulled from the finished product. I hope you enjoyed it and give the actual song from David Bowie a listen...it's a goodie.

Scott