Grim Dani🌒🌟✨🫧

first successful particle system #unrealengine :)

Yo if anyone is looking for a fun project to work on some of my students could use a few low poly modelers to help out on their senior capstone VR project!

Hit them up on discord if you want to know more!

Whenever I have to create concepts - I now lean into large shapes and quickly creating a silhouette with an eraser rather than fully rendering things out for time.

One of the main struggles I am currently facing with particle effects is consistent UE5 crashing. Something I am learning is that it is easier to take a preset particle system and repackage it than to make one from complete scratch when I do not have experience.

One success I had with this was creating a pleasant texture with my gradient map, one struggle I had was trying to incorporate the vines from the concept into the model. I decided that they were more good in theory and cut them.

Some of the challenges this provided were trying to lock down an art style that matches lighting, shaders, modeling, and more - AND make it compatible to Quest 3 VR.

During the first weeks of my quarter - I was tasked with coming up with an in depth art bible to assist with extra modelers coming on to our project. Here are a couple slides that deal with vertex painting lights, materials, and some sound design inspiration for our sound designer. #artbible 🧙‍♀️

One of my favorite unique models that I have made for our game is our snail - terrarium! We wanted to create a tiny environment on our cleaning desk designed for just our snail cleaning sponges. Here is the original concept and here is the final model!

Here is our cauldron, staff, painting desk, cleaning desk, three paint crushing bowls and pestle in action!

Here are three of the recent textured models. Included is how it was textured using a gradient color palette made in adobe illustrator.

I have been using maya and UV layers to create quick, simple and stylized models for our game ! #3dart #gamedev #art
See below ⤵️

Making a player zoo is fun and all, but making the REAL layout really makes it all feel like it's coming together... My senior capstone VR game, Broomsmith, is all coming along swimmingly! #gamedev

Here is a screen recording of one of our particle effects as a WIP - the dragons spray paint breath. The intended goal is to layer materials to allow for a burst of "flame" as well as "paint".

(original colors)

Making texture cards to import into the engine - I have kept some of them desaturated to allow for editing within the engine.

Here are the concepts drawn out to show what is needed. We need a particle system to levitate objects above the cauldron , we need a system that functions as spraypaint, and paint mixing systems for glass, bubbles, goop/slimy, and feathers.

Something I am new to is particle systems within UE5. Currently making stylized shaders to add to the magical element of our game. 🔭🌠

Below is my process ⤵️

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Here are our lights!

Here are some of the usable items in our game - each serving a unique purpose.

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Here are some of the pieces of art that were made within the ideation period - these did not make the final cut but were important in establishing a mood, aesthetic, and immersive scene.

Many small items were included in our game loop, such as curses, magical blessings, and our paint pigments! I was lucky to get to use these as an interesting material study in 2D digital art - which I often do not get the chance to do.

To add to the immersive qualities of a witchy shop - I had wanted to incorporate different decor options to fill out the space, and make it more fun and engaging to be in as the player. Below I have quick flag sketches, vines, books and a coat hanger.

Here are some key pieces to the general environment, aesthetic and game loop for our witchy repair shop! Our paint desk was designed specifically with our painting mechanic in mind. This way the player can grab pigments, crush them, and paint with ease.

As the art lead of Broomsmith (my senior capstone), I got to make several pieces of concept art to help build out a magical environment! Below are some of the pieces I created to pass off ideas to my team. #art #VR