3D Assignment 4: Lego Group Project Part 02

For this assignment we're continuing on with our last assignment, but now working with our entire class. We broke into 4 smaller teams, focusing on different aspects of our project. My team is focusing on environments! My team is made up of myself, Bailey Steggerda, Noel Graham, Anthony Ballinas, Paul Salas, and Will Perez-Valines.

The other teams are:

The Air Transportation Team:

Boo Roseman, Matthew Trupiano, Kendall Robertson, 

Yunhao Huo, Tiffany Brodie, Hezekiah Olopade

The Character Team:

Ryan Hill, Lindsay Green, Matthew Young,

Chelsea Ziu, Kay Ghering, Melissa Almirall

The Land Transportation Team:

Francisco Romero, Michael Vogel, Raymond Halley,

Yanjun Chen, Connor Hollis, Sam Moss

As the environment team we talked with the other teams about what kind of environment we wanted. The class decided the the setting would be the future and from there we decided to create an outpost on an asteroid that is the home of a giant crystal tree. People from around the galaxy can come and visit the tree, which now houses a park, hotel, and parking area. We wanted the aesthetic to be inspired by tron with dark blues, purples, and glowy.

Knowing all of this, I decided to model 3 pieces that I felt would be useful to our environment.

Once the environment was decided, I was also tasked with creating the asteroid and the dome. I tried to keep the tris on the two as low as possible as I knew that once the legos were in the scene it was going to be taxing on UE4.

For the environment I worked on concept sketching with Will. After that I worked on set dressing with Bailey. I created blueprints for trash cans, lamps, tables, bushes, crystal clusters, planters, statue, and fences. Anthony did the majority of the hotel based off of a concept sketch I made. I helped him finish up the hotel by adding plants, materials, and some detailing. I also worked on various material instances stemming from a base material created by Bailey. Bailey helped combine the environment team's maps and from there I placed assets from the other teams into the final environment - mostly the characters and some vehicles. After that I did the lighting and then took screenshots for the entire class to use.

Concept Sketches:

By Will Perez-Valines

By Will Perez-Valines

My blueprints for set dressing:

The finished hotel with materials:

The final environment with the whole class' assets:

For this I spent about 3 hours meeting, sketching concepts, and deciding on the environment and concept with the class and my team, 1 hour modeling my legos, 2 hours modeling the rock and dome, 3 hours building set dressing and the hotel and materials, and another 3 hours compiling the levels, blueprints etc. from the other teams, as well as lighting, building the light, and taking screenshots.