1) First I created the scene roughly using block out meshes and some simple lighting

2) Then I started making high poly models, baking out normal maps and ambient occlusion maps. While working on the lighting and composition.

3) here you can see me adding colour to the diffuse textures to work out the colour scheme for the scene

4) and then I created specular maps and worked on finalising the lighting and textures until I had the final scene you see below

Asset Details

Below you can see the components of this robot head trophy’s  in-game model.

While a lot of the texture details came from the high-poly models the rest of the texture details were hand-painted using a series of custom Photoshop brushes.  No photo sourced textures were used in this scene.

Here are the details for this chair. You can see that I have packed multiple channels on a single image for the specular/reflection masks. This was a common technique used throughout the scene.

Below is part of the shader network used to create the ‘oscilloscope’ effect from this video

It’s using a sine wave for both time and visual input to create the final effect. The ‘wavespeed’ and ‘waveheight’ parameters are being controlled using matinee.

This is a custom room I made in the Unreal Development kit. You can see an animated montage of this room below.

The Robot Hunters Room from daniel keating on Vimeo.

Here you can see the various stages of construction and some technical notes.  Below are some of the highpoly models that I created for the level.

In this room (above) I used photos of myself wearing a suit to make the portraits on the wall.

You can see some prop concepts I did for these scenes here.

Below you can see breakdowns of some textures I created for this level.

A three colour screen print, hand cut, using water soluble film.

This is a custom level I made using Unreal 3. Here you can see all the images of this level which demonstrates my working process. Below are the concepts I drew that led to me creating this level as well as the final textured version of the first model I made:

cerebrus level concepts

this is an old model I made in Maya & zbrush a long time ago. I’ve posed him here having a drink. He’s not supposed to have eyes.

I modeled & textured these objects for the museum level of Bioshock. Below you can see the hipoly, wireframe & textured models created using 3dsmax and photoshop. The UV layout is for the fossil pillar.

This is a work in progress of a stone door for a custom level I am making. Here you can see the lowpoly model in 3dsmax with a normalmap and ambient occlusion map baked from a hipoly model made in mudbox.