Graduate Thesis Environment

By using different art styles one can increase the way people experience emotions from video games. This thesis focused on increasing joy in players based on the art style of video game environments. It looked specifically at the artist Leonid Afremov for inspiration in the way he created art such as his large brush strokes and use of colors and lighting. He is a contemporary artist who paints in a Post-Impressionistic style. From the study it showed that this specific art style used in video game environments do increase the joy in players. This Environment focused on aspects of joy throughout the creation of the scene. This is done by the selection of colors, light, location, etc. This scene focused on low-poly modeling and color materials. Winter 2019-Spring 2019

Software Used: Unreal Engine4, Maya, Headus Uv layout, Clip Studio

Final renders from Unreal Engine using an in engine post processing effect

Material test in Unreal Engine

Block out in Unreal Engine without the post processing effect

Post processing effect created by FerkiZue (https://ferkizue.blogspot.com/2018/04/oil-painting-post-process-effect-in.html), used in Unreal Engine. Used to create a oil painting style effect to the image.

Test of the post processing effect as well as a simple color test.

Process: Block-out of buildings in Maya

Initial block-out of buildings in Maya

Sketches I created of the buildings to get a better understanding of the architecture and a sketch of some of the foliage.

More sketches I created of buildings. Along with a design of a map of the environment which was later revised to keep the size of the environment manageable in the time frame I wished to complete it in.

References for the environment.