Twin Cores - Tunnels [Student]
For our graduation project at ISART Digital Paris, we worked on a coop railshooter called Twin Cores.
As a 3D Game Artist, I was in charge of the full 3D environment based on level design, on the lighting and the optimization of these parts.
I worked in groups with Antoine Coste who was in charge of the VFX, players and enemies; Tanguy Thiebault who worked on the UI, and with Romain Fournier who handpainted the skybox, sprites and decals, and environment concept arts to help me.
Tunnels are modular, corresponding to level design specific constraints. They allow a contrast with the exterior environments to make for varied stages and moods across the game. They also makes the most of the PBR part of our stylized Artistic Direction, with roughness maps, indirect lighting and dynamic reflections.
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Tunnels are made of modular assets
They're ornated with textures, lighting, reflections and decals
Modular assets allows to have different templates of rooms
Corals are a mix of a destructive asset, decorating meshes and a decal of corrupted ground
God Rays are textured planes for optimization
Modular assets allows to easily follow the level design patterns
A specific-looking short tunnel
Modular tunnel assets
Interactive assets
Toggleable switches and opening doors
Coral/Flora assets
Detail lighting render
Tunnels are not affected by outside lights
Tunnel lights are complementary with mainly yellow-orange and a bit of blue
Every tunnel light is baked for optimization purposes
They are blueprints (light mesh + static point light)
Destructive corals have an animated emissive so the players distinguish them easily
The end of the tunnel has broken walls and is affected by indirect outside lighting, making a transition for the exterior environment