The Classroom

-Our team of three 3D artists, Myself, Wyatt Eager, and Sophia Keith, created this project with the aim to make an abandoned elementary school classroom, textured in a painterly style, the room was supposed to be slightly unnerving but not scary, with slight nostalgia.

-My main job in this project was furniture/object modeling, which included but was not limited to, large pieces of furniture like the cabinets and white boards, and small details like the chip bags and cups. Wyatt was in charge of room structure and stylized painting, and Sophia was an object modeler and support painter. I used Maya to make my models, handed them off to be textured and stylized in Substance Painter, and the result was the Unreal Engine final prop. Other members of the team also used Zbrush for finer details on certain wooden or cloth objects.

-The backstory: due to mismanagement, the elementary school is closed down, one particular teacher isn’t able to find a new job after the closure and ends up squatting in his old classroom, surrounded by the drawings and stuffed animals of his prior students.

-The three specific assets pictured are not the only ones I made in this project, but they are some of my favorites, the Palette of Beans and Trash Can, both of which are here mainly for my enjoyment of making them, and the Chip Bag, which was one of my first decent soft body models.

-The most valuable take away from this experience was working with a group and making sure everyone was on the same page with expectations, timeline, and communication.

• Software: Maya, Adobe Substance Painter, Unreal Engine V, Adobe Premiere, ZBrush
• Techniques: High-poly modeling, PBR texturing, HDRI lighting

Credits:
• Team Members:
-Wyatt Eager (Lead Texture Artist, Lighting) - https://www.artstation.com/wanderlovely
-Ainsley Clark (Lead Hard Surface Modeling) - https://www.artstation.com/ainsley1
-Sophia Keith (Lead Organic Modeling, Texturing) - https://www.artstation.com/starmansolar - https://starmansolar.myportfolio.com/
• Special Thanks to our amazing 3D teacher, Renee Nejo