Detailed 3d-recreaction of photo

Our teacher at YRGO gave us the choice to either create a room in 3D or trying to recreate a photograph in Blender. I chose a mix of both sort of ...

I decided I wanted to make something different. I think most 3D art you see often is a bit to polished and clean so I asked myself "can you make something less tidy and dirty".

When I found the photo on Plexer I started to ask "Can I recreate this?" ... "It might have to much trash and paper everywhere. It might be tideous to make it look right"

Turned out I could.

The process took a bit longer than expected though. What should have been done in a week took almost 3 weeks. Along the way I learned a lot about lighting, materials and shaders to get the right lighting. Also a few tricks on how to make surfaces slightly glossy and bent to make themm catch light correctly in 3d.

And here is the final result

Aquarelle / Water Color shaders

During our shader course I worked on some shaders where I wanted to make the surrounding feel like made out of water colors (specifically aquarelle).

I spent a long time just experimenting with combining noises until I found something that felt correct.

By examinating real painted pictures close I realised that the water often creates edges rather than perfect smooth transition. Since the noise nodes of Shader Graph is often quite smooth in their transitions I added a sampling of a gradient that had less smooth transitions

This made the noise feel more like aquarelle on a paper and I'm pleased with the final result

Configurator: Doors

My first own project in Unreal. Got a good grasp of blueprints.

Especially worked a lot with the UI and my own dropdown-menus since Unreals default ones can't be modified or changed to my liking.

Quite pleased with the simple animation control part of the door opening.

Like A Rat In A Maze

The idea came in a game jam to make a 3rd person rat that needs to run away from the flood.

The project is far from finished but during the process I learnt a lot about baked lightmapping in Unity. I also learnt how to use root-motion for moving a character based on it's animation and apply it to a rigidbody.

A lot of time (5 days) were solely spent on getting the 3rd-person camera to behave and not clip through walls. Following a small rat in tight spaces at heigh speed is hard using a orbiting 3rd-person-view camera