The title is a play on words from another existing game, but the idea, greyboxing, worldbuilding, and scripting is 100% mine. :P  This was made for the CGMA Level Design course with Shane Canning. I had an absolute blast learning from Shane. Scripting and worldbuilding various types of levels. This level design blockout in particular was one of my favorites so I had to share it on my blog. 

Added more geo to the cards and fly away hair strands. Next progress step is to render the actual hair now.  :3

Blocked in some hair cards with loose painting on it. 

Moving on to the hair next.

I think I've a wonderful mess of the place!  Now time to add some color to this world.

Having a blast working in Unreal. Re-acquainting myself with the editor after using Unity for so long.

Showing off some stylized Substance materials I made so far! And a look of it in game!

What have I been up to? Well, I've been working on a personal project that has a story, spooks, and is a small horror game! I'm doing it in a style that I really like (lofi pixel graphics). Special shout out to "The Haunted PS1" game dev community that I am a part of! And I'm having alot of fun doing the game design. But since I am an environment artist, I wanted to challenge my art skills too. The pixel post processing can be used on handpainted or pbr assets. So I'll have 2 versions. One that is the lofi-style (the one I'll ship with), and then I'll have a non-pixel, high-fi version of the space for myself. 

Here's a test I did:

This model & texture that I made.

Now to polish model & texture the environment.

I was going to take it the handpainted route, but then decided to expand my skills and learn the current state of (stylized) PBR! And where do I start? With wood, ofcourse.

I downloaded the trial version of the latest version of Substance Designer (since my owned copy is......years old), and created one texture of many that I'll need. I'm actually double dipping and using the textures for this space too. haha. This is the scene where the main part of my game will take place.

That's all for now!

- Azaraen (Esther)