Party at the Museum

What exactly happened here? Did someone break in, or did the dinosaurs themselves come to life? 

I sculpted all the fossils in Zbrush. Because of a very tight timeframe (university deadline), I needed to optimise my workflow to take as short as possible, hence I only sculpted two skeletons and reused the predator dinosaur by posing it differently. I also used a combination of different retopology workflows: hand retopology, Zremesher and retopology tools in Maya where most fitting, for the most efficiency.  

I built my interior from a modular kit and maximised reusing assets throughout the scene (for example the open and enclosed display stands share the same base).

I planned my trim sheets by sketching the patterns out in the parts of the grey box. I then Identified trims and tileable and sketched a plan of a trim sheet. This later changed slightly, but the sketches turned out very helpful nonetheless. 

I used a similar workflow to plan the trim sheets and tileables on the floor.  

I used the roughness and normal maps of the tileable grain across the trimmed pattern's material. That way the grain size would not be influenced by the scaling of the trimmable areas, allowing for easy iteration. 

The scene was created from my own concept, which I sketched out before the greyboxing stage. I used many references, including photographs from the Natural History Museum in London.