Making some progress on modelling the Amityville house,working out some of the third floor rooms and finding reference photos from the time period.
Have most of the main furniture in place and need to another pass of detailing,making it more lived in looking and adding smaller items. Unreal 4 recently updated to version 4.16 also so looking forward to some experimenting with volumetric lighting / fog.

Amityville - Teaser

Spent an afternoon exploring with Unreal 4's sequencer and matinee,mostly just needed a break from modelling and wanted to use some of the tools I'm less familiar with.
I ended up putting together a little teaser video for fun in the editor,still a lot of progress needed on filing the house model with more objects.Also been testing out the latest preview version of Unreal,still seems to have a lighting bug unfortunately but new volumetric lighting looks interesting.

Amityville progress - Master bedroom 360

360 image showing work in progress on the master bedroom,over the last week I worked on updating the scale of the model to be more accurate as well as adding some additional items and experimenting with baking the lighting. The reflections in the 360 image didn't turn out as expected so will have to look into that issue as well as adding clutter to the room although currently is very close to how the room was photographed in 1976.

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Showreel update

Working on some website updates and a little adjusting of my showreel,latest version with some additional footage toward the end.

Random Render of the day - Mech Walker

Not posted much of the more random projects / models I worked on in a while but came across this little mech model I made for a short project I worked on last year.The model was to be used for a top down game browser rts game and would have been rigged and shot as animation sequences for the game.

Amityville - 360 Image Test 3

360 Panorama of the house exterior.For this test I tried increasing the lighting on the environment a little more since it appeared dark in some screenshots,the export process for the panoramic images is pretty quick and easy whereas a 360 YouTube video is a lot more complex and will use keyframing,camera movement.Currently waiting on the next version update on Unreal before I start that.

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Amityville - 360 Image Test 2

Second interactive 360 panorama test. This shows work in progress on Missy's room,recreated from photos of the Amityville house in 1976.There are still details to add like grime to woodwork as well as all the smaller objects littering the room and on shelves.

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Amityville - 360 Image Test

Doing some experimenting with Unreal 4's 360 plugins,this is my first test image for a still inside my game map.Process is fairly quick but getting the image embedded into my blog took a bit searching,drag on the image to give it a try.Eventually the aim will be a full YouTube 360 video.

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