Old Factory

The Old Factory was created as part of a team of 3 Environment Artists for Virtus Studios and Hivemind for release on the Unreal and Unity Marketplaces. The project was completed in 28 days. 
Two versions of this scene were created, one in Unreal Engine 5.3 and the other in Unity. The scene includes a modular warehouse kit, extensive pipes and machinery foliage and materials.
I lead the team on this project, producing research notes, moodboards, production plans, and dividing up work.
I produced the warehouse modular kit and a significant number of the props/machines. The modular kit was designed to have the maximum number of configurations with the minimum number of pieces. The final scene was composed by me, subdividing the different areas by different uses to create a sense of narrative to the environment. I constructed a number of warehouse variations in level instances, enabling the easy placement and swapping out of whole buildings easily. The environment is fully traversable, through all buildings and walkways.
For this project we used the foliage I had created for previously for a project with a similar setting. The foliage was created in Speedtree, then it was cleaned up in Maya, ready for import and placement. 
Additionally this project takes full advantage of the material layers system, set up by a colleague and I. All the materials throughout the scene come from the same master material, with different functions applied through layer blends. We created blends for mesh specific masks, packed into RGB channels in substance painter. Vertex painting, where the colour channel for application can be assigned in each material instance. Noise blend, to break up large areas of tiling. And world aligned blend layer for projected textures.