Cosmos LTD

This project was my first time using a proper pipeline, and also my largest hard surface props to date. I learned a lot over the course of this project through trial and error, various tutorials, and the feedback from my supervisor, Alex Corll, who helped a ton with the lighting.

The Station

This is the prop that I spent the most time on. The majority of the time was spent uving all of the different details. I managed to only take up 34 udims, which I felt was reasonable for something of this size. Texturing was fairly straight forward as I relied on procedurals and tiled textures to do most of the work. I came in by hand to touch up the dirt and discolouration. If I could make this prop again with all that I learned from it, I would spend less time on making details at the bottom and more filling out the top.

The Ship

I am the least happy with this prop as I spent my time on the station instead of this, but still managed to end up with a half decent prop. The modelling was the hardest part of this for me. I haven't really done any vehicle modelling before, so starting with a big spaceship was a trial by fire. If I could do this again, I would maybe try to make it using a nurbs workflow, as that seems more suited to this shape. uving the ship was the most frustrating of the three props. For the few sections I couldn't solve in a timely manner, I used a camera based projection. Texturing was quite fun, I hand painted most of the dirt and used a tiled texture for the paneling effect.

The Drone

Modelling the drone was were I got the most creative freedom, as the concept was rather vague about the details. Everything on this prop was straightforward, the only problem I had was with the direction of some of the uv's, but because the prop is so small in the final piece I left it. Most of the texturing was handled by procedurals and tiled textures, as well as an AO map used for multiple things.