Escape

from the

Deep

James Goodchild | Elias Holthouse

Waking up in an Underwater Lab with the Alarms sounding you need to find the way out

- S t o r y a n d a e s t h e t i c -

It all starts with you waking up in your room and hearing the Alarms sounding all around you you don't know what has happened or what is going on but as you progress forward you hear deep growling sound reverberating and the doors shutting and sealing behind you, when you get to the end of the hallway there is water on the floor and several room are locked with the access panels damaged you need to find the Key cards around the place to progress and move forwards in an attempt to get out of the lab alive.

- A n d t h e P u r p o s e ? -

Our goal with this project is to create a sense of Anxiety and Paranoia in the Player as they move through the level with sounds coming from outside in the water, the light flashing and the scene getting worse as the player progresses with no clue about what is really going on or what has happened to cause the situation.

Download the Experience

https://1022488.itch.io/escape-from-the-deep

MEET THE TEAM!

James Goodchild

Email:

hedz_89@hotmail.com

1022488@student.sae.edu.au

Social media links:

Art Station:

https://www.artstation.com/arcura88

Skillset:

rigger
weight painting
team leader
UE4 coder

Elias Holthouse

Email:

eli.holt9020@gmail.com

1020367@student.sae.edu.au

Social media links:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076308308398

Art Station:

https://www.artstation.com/eholt/blog

Skillset:

Hard surface modeller
UV unwrapping
Texture baking
High poly modelling
Low poly modelling

- JAMES GOODCHILD -

Team LeadTechnical Artist

My role:
Working as the team leader I had to maintain a constraint thought of what the end product had to look. I also had to make sure the level worked as it was supposed to with the sounds, interactions and environment cues, that the build of the assets was going to work in uniform with the rest of the base and that we followed a similar structure with all the assets and textures
Working as the technical artist required me to look a lot more into the way to trigger the different effects what would be good placement for items and sound cues, making sure the sound cues did not over power the rest of the sounds and that certain sounds had more of an environmental effect instead of just being constantly in the users ear

2021-10-26 12-43-50.mp4

Blueprint testing was carried out a lot as different effects could react differently in different places

escape frome the deep alpha.mp4

Pre Alpha test carried a lot of trials for the placement of items and what they would need to do

- L E V E L C O N C E P T S -

- Elias Holthouse -

Environmental Artist3D Hardsurface modeller

My role as an Environmental artist in Escape from the Deep is to model and texture all the indoor assets and position them around the levels.

The assets I modelled for Escape from the Deep are as follows: shelf, office chair, plants, doors, key card, key card scanner, computer set up, lab equipment, fluorescent lights, tables, folder and lab bench.

When I finish modelling I will UV unwrap my assets and make sure that there is minimal texture wastage and no distorted areas present.

After I UV unwrap my models I will bake and apply textures to the asset in Substance Painter. During this time I will use filters and generators to add more details to the textures e.g. rust on tri door and water droplets on plant.

Once I am happy with the textures I will export them into these listed texture maps depending on the model:

Base colour
Roughness
Ambient occlusion
Metallic
Emission
Opacity
Normals

Once the texture maps are exported I will then implement both the texture maps and models into Unreal Engine 4; applying the respective texture maps to their corresponding model's material.