Helleren Norway - Lowpoly Diorama
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Lowpoly scene made in the first year of Games Graphics Production at DAE, Digital Arts and Entertainment and also the first big scene i ever modeled. fully modeled in Maya, rendered in Blender
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HELLEREN NORWAY - LOWPOLY DIORAMA
This diorama was made as a final assignment for the first year course 3D1 at DAE Digital Arts and Entertainment. Before coming to DAE I had previously worked with Fusion 360 making models for 3D printing and had made some basic scenes in blender using models found online. At DAE I had my first real introduction to modeling and quickly became very passionate about Maya and modeling in general.
The assignment consisted of making a simple diorama with a few buildings, a minimum of 5 props, 1 vehicle and restricted the students to only using basic color and opacity maps. In the end I ended up with a total file size of 14 MB and 30k faces.
The two houses in the scene are modeled after 2 historic houses under the Helleren cliff located in Jøssingfjord Norway.
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Here is the original Sketchfab upload which I handed in for school. Sketchfab limits you to being able to place a maximum of 3 lights, and on top of that the school task prohibited us from doing evening or night scenes. While I'm happy with the result I uploaded back then I felt the scene had more potential as a golden hour / early evening scene, so I revamped the lighting setup and rendered everything in blender for this contest.
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![](https://d3stdg5so273ei.cloudfront.net/kriscatteau/2023-05-30/554063/1400xAUTO/helleren_ref-kriscatteau.jpg)
Thanks you for having a look at my work and have a great day. :)
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