Family Bakery

After coming up with a backstory for my scene I looked for a ton of references and ideas on what I wanted it to look like. I usually use this time to explore and research the specific environment I’m trying to portray, which was a cozy bakery vibe.

Once I gathered all the references that was enough to start, I began to sketch quick rough ideas. I didn’t spend too much time here because I was on a short time frame. I mostly used the sketches as a guide anyway.

I sketched a few of the key objects that I wanted in the scene as well. Some objects I ended up not including in the final environment, like the chair; which I felt made the space too cramped, so the end result was a small wooden chair and stool instead.

After finishing the sketches, I moved on to block out in Maya. Blocking out in Maya is when I really started to lockdown on the layout and composition. I moved the layout around, rotated objects to break up the flow and create pockets of interest.

I did some texturing here for the walls and floor because I wanted to get a feel of color scheme. Based on my narrative there would be a lot of neutral colors like wood but it's also a family home so I wanted to add personality with bursts of color.

I displayed this originally in Marmoset before moving it to Unreal, so I played with lighting here while also continuing to model everything. There were a lot of assets to work on!

Everything was hand-painted in Photoshop. Primarily all textures were done with Albedo however there are a few objects with slight roughness, metallic, and emissive maps such as the boiler and burning ashes which were also done in Photoshop.

I displayed all the assets next to each other to show just how many unique props were done in the six week time frame; which included everything from concept to finished textured assets in a staged and lighted scene.

The Stargazy Pie was a huge part of my narrative.