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• Hello silaspaige1998, First well done for the amount of work. Documentation is good but organization is a little bit scattered, maybe also having a layout documentation less "rough" will be a plus, but in general everything is interesting and the breakdown is good. Some nice references there! For the project himself, I didn't find your level, there is only "advanced_lighting, minimal_default, startermap" insidethe project. You should have lower rating for the presentation but the amount of asset you delivered to review is balancing the notation. Renders are interesting. If you check your references, you can notice that the lighting and color grading is always balanced between difference colors (complementary or opposed). It's one aspect missing of your project which could be a good improvement : balancing the colors. Currently your lighting is flat because the constant mood/orange color. Best way to add some contrast and interest to object will be to play with opposite colors, like blue and pick a third one to mix them. You should also for this scene probably focus more on your main asset (terminal), which is the master piece. Currently the eyes are disturbed by this linear lighting you can spot on your lighting documentation, you should work in layer in term of depth and priorities. The door/entries are obviously important as game play elements/critical paths, but in this scene they're secondary option, lighting should be there but lower and probably in a different teint than the rest of the scene "you need to go there". You could play with some volumetric fog to focus the interest on the terminal. I'll lower the bloom to have a more realistic effect, the current one is really strong, if you want to spread, you should use volumetric fog and tweak the detail bloom panel about the spreading. About the convolution bloom, the issue of this effect is that it's too expensive to be game-ready (cost around 7-9ms, budget for a game at 60fps is 16ms for everything). you can simulate the effect of the convolution bloom by some VFX planes rotating. Assets are in generation correctly created. Sometimes you use maybe modeling for no reason like for the keyboard of the terminal, you could lower a little bit the polycount and doing the trick by the material/textures. Same comment for other assets. You should put more important on texture detail (doesn't mean huge textures), you can see by focusing on the terminal (the main object) the pixels of the texture. It could be okay for a game without zoom, like a TPS but for a FPS in current generation it will be a little bit oldish to have these issues. Quentin Papleux, Sr. Lighting artist, Sumo Digital
• In future add all documentation pages to the same file. Reference found but would have been good to see annotation of what you liked/wanted to replicate. Really like that you focused on a small environment and that you used additional assets to set dress the space. Would have been good to see more images of the progress of the scene. Modelling looks good though the assets would have benefitted from using tiling textures and trim sheets opposed to baking everything down into textures. Group similar assets onto the same texture sheets if you are baking them eg. all UI panels on one, all foliage on another. Definite use of PBR and theming is consistent throughout. Lighting and fog works well though I would use it to better frame the central control panel eg. having less light in the background/top of the image. Fog helps to add depth to the scene and the reflections add to that scifi look. Good work!
• Now the scene is complete, you can take a step back and consider how to push it to the next level. There are a number of core design and logistic issues which I think need to be addressed first. Think about how the space would be used in real life and how people interact with it. Make sure to study reference of real world labs, control stations and the ISS carefully. Pay attention to how things are laid out and use they feel lived in. I have done some paint overs for you to help explain these points. Itch does not support image embedding so you need to paste this link manually. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-5wma1DHU3jTDlBLsE8leiIhxffX7Css