3D Environment

For this project I was tasked to create a whole 3D environment.

Thoughts

When I was given this task I firstly had to think about what I want my environment to be. the idea actually came to me whilst I was scrolling through my camera roll. I had stumbled upon a picture taken almost 10 years ago when i was on holiday in Cancun. Behind me was Chichen Itza, a Mayan Pyramid. I can remember loving its design and thinking that doing ancient Egypt pyramids would be too easy. This lead me to my idea of my 3D environment.

In order to recreate this I had to think of accompanying buildings to go in my scene. I did some research and found little pyramids with holes in the middle. These will become my other 3D models. Lastly, I had to think of a centrepiece – something so interesting that it takes the viewers eyes away from the amazing, large pyramids. This lead me to think of a sacrifice altar. The flames around it and in its centre would surely make it a spectacle.

Modelling

With only having a few weeks of practice to learn 3D modelling in a class it’s safe to say I was a novice at it. But you have to start somewhere and there are lots of tutorials online as well as some provided by my teacher.

These are all the models separately:

With all these models made and with the textures added to make them look more realistic, I was ready to create the scene.