May's Assets

Here are the last of the assets for this project so far. We are aiming to work on this project throughout the summer to the goal of gamecity in october. You may notice an unfinished chair to the right of the "hell room" chair, this was the original attempt but I got fustrated with it, so started again to a better result.

For the development and a downloadable version of the game as it stands, visit:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/portrait

May's Assets

April's Assets

This month saw some of my favourite models to date, including the grand piano and the grandfather clock. I spent quite a while trying to get the piano just right. the clock is one of only a few objects in the house that move, with the pendulem swinging.

April's Assets

This month I had time to focus on more specific items of furniture such as the Dollhouse for the nursery. the tables were a must though so that we could plac e them around the house to gauge obsticle distances from doors etc. Spatial awareness is a key factor in the composition of the house overall, as with each room on it's own.

March's Assets

Assets from February

Now that production has started, I will be modelling, ambient occluding and texturing assets for my final project. There is a long list of assets that I have to create, so I might batch a few assets in pictures together at the end of each month. With the design document as a guide, creating assets should be fluid and straight-forward with technical hiccups to be expected!

This month was dedicated to creating infrastructure and the house in its roughest stage. Priority went on assets such as doors, doorframes, pillars and columns. These will populate the walls and fill the gaps where the doors need to go on the early stage of the build so we have a better “feel” for the house rather than just a bunch of walls with holes in.
To further aid spatial awareness and room layout, this month has been a bit table mad, I have also dedicated a bit more time to focus on the ornate fireplace, with several different sections being merged into the one asset. I wanted to add a consistent feel to the design of the assets as shown in the orthographics; this also meant that I could lift parts of other assets to build new ones. You can see this in the fireplace that is surrounded by a truncated and slightly edited ornate doorframe model from last month. This made for efficient time usage whilst maintaining quality.

February's Assets

Last but not least...

Upon designing the drawing room, I discovered that a writing desk had to be designed, so last of the assets to be made for my section of pre-production is this table. Tomorrow, all the group's work will be compiled together for the design and development documents and the blog will continue to follow into the flurry of production. Make sure your eyes are over 1 meter high, becuase it's going to be a hell of a rollercoaster!

Rooms 11 and 13

Room 12

Room 12 is the only one out of the following rooms to be scanned, due to the fact the rooms are all pretty standard in layout, so shall just have the doors moved around.

Room 20

When doing the initial plans, room 20 doesn't have any key features other than being small and intrusive, but essentially juts a box room joining three rooms. This room shall have inclining walls creating uneasiness.

Room 22

Room 8c

Room 21

Rough Painting

This is a painting to go at the end of a dark and atmoshperic corridor, it is intended to look like a character to interact or learn from, but will just be a painting. I tried to distort the water colour paint with water and bleach, but I think the paper had absorbed the original picture and locked it pretty tight. This might get redone during production but for now is fit for purpose.

Vase

For now, that is it in regards to my assets, stay tuned for room plans and dynamics.

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