02_Jade Island - Luis Hurtarte

Jade Island

Sculpted Assets

For this project, I decided to depict an abandoned island in the Caribbean Sea. On it stands a statue of a Maya god, guarding a sacred stone. The island is surrounded by formations of jade crystals.

Jade Island

Sculpted Assets

For this project, I have decided to depict the site of the old Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill. The industrial building complex offers a variety of different materials and exciting objects.

The level should give the player the opportunity to learn facts about the cotton spinning mill in a playful way. The application could accompany the permanent exhibition of the historical collections of the mill and expand the knowledge transfer.

Research

I found a sculpture of a Mayan god in the database of the Cleveland Museum of Art (the original image can be found here: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1994.12.1) and decided to scale it up as a statue. To sculpt the asset, I first selected reference images to analyze the object from different perspectives and to better understand its proportions and materials.

Sculpting

The high-poly statue and environment assets (crystals, stones) were sculpted in ZBrush.

Retopology

The meshes were then retopologized to make them suitable for use in real-time applications.

Texturing and Rendering

The assets were then textured with attention to PBR requirements using Substance Painter and Substance Designer to create custom materials. The images were rendered in Marmoset, and the video was post-produced in After Effects.