Still Wakes The Deep - Tech Art
'The Horror' moving through environments.
Animated meshes
Dynamic Mesh Script to create elements of the 'Horror' - 01
Dynamic Mesh Script to create elements of the 'Horror' - 02
For the body horror elements, we wanted to preserve the horror sculpts as much as possible and have high quality texture resolution. We ended up with using nanite and a masked texturing workflow.
We adapted mid-production to using nanite very early on and had to adapt our workflow and scene creation but the results were great.
Destruction of carpeted floors - using a combination of vertex color and nanite - 01
Destruction of carpeted floors - using a combination of vertex color and nanite - 02
Destruction of carpeted floors - using a combination of vertex color and nanite - 03
Wetness shader function to simulate rain, worked globally and would adjust based on the type of material and angle of the surface. - This was a big collab with Tech Art to get it to read all sorts of scene variables.
Condensation effect
I worked a lot on setting up a high quality and efficient material pipeline, relying on masks and tileables.
An Oil rig has a lot of painted metal surfaces, so a decent amount of time was spent on exploring options.
Still Wakes The Deep - Tech Art
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Large chunks of my time on the project went to optimization, tool development, workflows and visualizing 'The Horror' alongside our Tech Art team. This is a collection of snippets of Environment Tech Art and workflows, some of them are environments from the overall Env. Art Team just to showcase the range of 'The Horror' workflow.
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Shoutout to these Tech Artist who made a lot of the optimization and 'The Horror' possible:
https://www.artstation.com/jacekmaj
- Peter Taschner
Body Horror sculpts by
https://www.artstation.com/jefwall
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STILL WAKES THE DEEP - a first-person narrative horror genre by The Chinese Room.
December 1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality.
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