Our group had picked the genre ‘low-fi’ for this project. I wanted to try this out as I have never experienced VFX of an old fashioned aesthetic, and I already had ideas and referneces I wanted to input to this project. Our task is to take a 10 second shot of an empty corridor and input tracked CGI assets and other visual ammendments to create a lo-fi styled corridor.
I chose the role of a Look Dev Artist, as modellling is something I want to develop especially in my personal and final project, so any development in this field is very helpful for my portfolio and future in VFX.
We decided on the sub-genre of ‘Cassette Punk’. Old fashioned technology that was thought of to be ‘futuristic’ in the past. I immediately thought to the game ‘Alien Isolation. When I had played this one of the things that stood out to me was the technology in the game on board the spacehip.
When it came to making our mood board I decided to take screengrabs from this game I had found during my research online and input these for inspiration. Our moodboard is here:
Here we can see we have established our consistent aesthetic we want to portray.
We then had our first meeting to talk about what each one of us should work on. As a modeller, I had to think about what my main asset to design would be. Given I was so passionate about lo-fi technology in games, I decided to say I wanted to create a terminal for the shot.
I used an ‘Alien Isolation’ screengrab as my main inspiration as to what I would like this asset to look like: