Mushrooms to the Moon | UTD ATEC CAPSTONE 2021
Mushrooms to the Moon is a project that creates a walkable 3D environment from a custom 2D illustration
The illustration, created in Photoshop, is translated into 3D assets in Maya. The models are arranged in Unreal to represent what the viewer would experience if they could walk into the illustration.
The project is inspired by nature and fantasy and explores the differences in digital 2D and 3D creation from concept to creation.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado (Music Credit).
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Final Product
Final product compiled in Unreal 4 with a soundtrack that helps create a fantasy ambiance. The total timeline was a semester and all texturing, modeling, illustration, and placement was done by myself.
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Build
The components were drafted from the illustration and then put together in several stages in Maya. The items started with low poly models with basic colors and at a later stage replaced with high poly models with custom textures.
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Blocking
The first few stages of the project, before any modeling was done was to block out the scene in Unreal using basic shapes and colors.
