Hidden Intentions

Mia Dator | Naomi Hermans | Quan Trung

Download the Experience: https://hiddenintetions.itch.io/hidden-intentions

Process

Project Name: Hidden Intentions

You, the Main Character, are a police detective named Jack. You have a loving wife and your best friend Victor is a detective. On one fateful night, you have found your wife murdered. You employ the help of your Victor to take lead in the investigation to find out who the culprit is.

We have taken inspiration from noir style detective and murder mystery games such as L.A. Noire, as well as implementing teslapunk style reminiscent of the setting of Piltover in Arcane (League of Legends).

Process

Mia Dator

Team Lead | 3D Animator

Mia is our lovely team lead with incredible organisation skills that supplement her beautiful 3D animation. Working with Naomi and Quan the character artists, as well as James Goodchild our rigger, Mia has been able to create organic animations that are the product of her exceptional learning, being completely new to 3D animation this year!

She has created convincing facial expression animations, alongside lip-synced animation for the dialogue. She has completed several intricate animations and optimised them for Real-Time engines, as she navigates Unreal Engine 4.27, importing them and coding (blueprints) triggers that enable the player experience.

Mia's versatility in all aspects of this project have been invaluable, with extensive behind the scenes blood sweat and tears being poured into Hidden Intentions

A snippet of Mia's blueprinting, an elegant method to control the idle animation length in game.

Startscene_persp_V2_lipsync.mov

Endscene_persp_V1_lipsync.mov

Ev2_cat_persp.mov

Naomi Hermans

3D Character Artist

Naomi is our 3D character artist that created our main character, Detective Victor. Her previous skills in 2D illustration have transferred over to her great 3D modelling skills, enabling her to utilise software such as Marvelous Designer, Zbrush, and Marmoset Toolbag in order to transform her concept designs into 3D space.

Naomi has been essential in making the environment of our Teslapunk house come to life, retexturing Mia's sourced assets, introducing interesting VFX and enabling immersive materials and decals.

Her extensive work and dilligence for this project have been exceptional and allow for Hidden Intention's incredible aesthetic and design.

Concept sketches for Victor

Quan (Trung) Tran

3D Character Artist

Quan is our 3D character artist that has created the adorable cyborg cat. Quan's modelling skills are exceptional, having had to retopologise for animation optimisation, create beautiful textures ranging from organic stylised fur to mechanical parts. This asset features in the fourth evidence in Hidden Intentions.

Not only is Quan an overly excpetional 3D modeller, he has been diving head first into the technical side of Unreal Engine 4.27, creating some incredible elements that greatly heighten the viewer experience. Utilising a modular workflow, Quan has greyboxed our environment, as well as introduced trigger coding for events, and even perfectly timed subtitles for the dialogue!

Quan has had incredible dedication for our project, and it truly shows through the seamless walkthrough of our walking simulator experience.