SUMMARY:
I want to create a high fidelity environment using the PBR system and UE4. It's going to be a sci fi environment taking place on mars. I want to really touch on my flaws like material definition and design flow/design fundamentals. I want to create intricate, but well designed props and environments. Environments where the eye and player are led where I want them to be led using directional lines, lighting and calm spaces. I want to use my love for storytelling, movies and narrative to create a little "short film" with this environment. Nothing too big but just a little narrative that I think would be alot of fun to create. One of the things I love most about environment art is how we are capable of doing SO much as individuals. We literally create worlds so I'd love to just marry my love for film with my love for environment art.
STORY: It might change as the project progresses.
Many years in the future when independent contractors become the frontline of space exploration, a company called Orbital Industries births Project Route. Project Route is a "seed planting" set of missions made to create sustainable stations throughout our solar system to help house, refuel and repair any space exploration missions that pass through. These stations will be maintained by ROUTE drones to house astronauts for months at a time. A milestone in the technological advancement of robotics, ROUTE is a fully intelligent humanoid drone capable of personalities, decision making and emotional intelligence. They are preprogrammed with the blueprints for the stations and start building immediately on landing and spend their time exploring and mapping out the surface of planets.
ART DIRECTION:
Using design elements from existing space shuttles, rovers, and the space station I'm going to try to create what the technology might look a couple hundred years in the future with almost no monetary restrictions. Ideally I'd like it to be more science fiction, so the broad strokes and big shapes will be more sci fi, but keeping the details and functionality within the confines of the tech found on todays shuttles. I'm really trying to push my sense of design, materials and modeling within environment art. So there will be a vast list of materials such as that aluminum insulation found on alot of shuttles, chrome, rubber, painted metals, glass, sand and rock.
