The Martian - Mars Base

This is a project I made for university during the first semester of my second year. Our brief was to create an environment from a film of our choice. I chose to do the interior of the mars base from the 2015 film ‘The Martian’. This was the first full environment I had worked on and overall feel it turned out well. I learnt a lot from this project and have learnt a lot of lessons on where I can improve for future projects.

I really enjoyed the learning process of this project. Learning new skills in engine to develop my work further was something I enjoyed the most. Using features such as post processing and exponential height fog really helped push my work, creating a much better atmosphere showing depth and contrast in the lighting.

I feel I could have developed my scene further by implementing animations and particle effects to make the scene feel more alive, but due to my deadline I was unable to try them out. I hope to investigate these in the future and implement them into my environments.

This project has really inspired me to dive in and learn as much as possible about environment art and creating a successful scene. I hope to keep on developing my skills to successfully pursue a career in the industry.