What happened to the development updates?
Development on the project slowed down considerably due to the situation with COVID-19. Closure of the University and therefore not having access to resources slowed progress massively. This along with personal struggles during this time resulted in motivation dropping, hence why I haven’t been updating this blog.
Current Progress
The screenshots below show the current state of my project on the 28/04/2020. The environment still needs work, but I am happy with the the current state its in.
One of the things I’ve been working on has been the lighting. When getting feedback from tutors the main things being pointed out was that my scene was too dark and there were lighting artefacts. To fix these issues I increased the resolution of my lightmaps and either altered the intensity of my lights or added more lights into the scene. I have also used IES profiles to achieve more realistic lighting patterns. The screenshot below shows my project on the 16/04/2020. Lighting the scene correctly has had a huge visual impact.
Plan
The deadline for this project is soon so, Im going to focus on getting the last few assets and materials into the scene. Once all the assets are in Ill take a look at the composition and tweaking my lighting. Once this is done I will hopefully be ready to take the beauty shots and prepare for submission.
Games Art Project 