Scifi Laboratory Process
I used the project to really push my limits. I wanted to use it as a massive action learning experience. My goals were to make a real-time environment, tell a story about the scientist who owns the lab, and make it all in a really cramped space. This would force me to work in multiple visual layers. The scientist is a workaholic who hardly ever leaves his work area.
This is the scientist's working lab. He spends most of his time in this cramped space working on his projects.
I wanted a floating hologram in the scene. I used a cube and set the material in Unreal to wireframe. Then I gave it an emissive. There was going to be beams holding the cube, but I felt it felt better without them.
This shot is of the test tube machine, microscope, and the tank holder.
This is the original pylon tank that was created in 3DS Max. It was then taken into Substance Painter and painted.
Underground panels surfaced in Substance Painter.