Judge feedback

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• The concept you chose is really nice and works due to a few key points you may have missed. The scale and proportions of the scene and objects is very important - the cables are much thicker, fuller and of different sizes, they fill the space, they are crammed in, same with the wall mounted objects and structural supports. With a few proportion and scale adjustments your scene can get much closer the concept.
• It’s good to see a breakdown of the images you did find but it would have been work to see more reference in general. I like that you tested a workflow before you began but I would say that it would be more optimal to use opacity in textures rather than high res geometry for the grates. Using geometry for panels not in place is fine but when the mesh is under foot you can get away with using a texture instead. It would have been good to see a block out of the scene before getting into production. Good to see use of a modular kit. UVs look efficient. It would have been good to test if you needed to include all the geometry here or whether you could bake some of it into a trim sheet (this isn’t a deal breaker). Door asset has clean and good topology. Good use of PBR throughout. I like the set dress you’ve added to the scene. This could have been enhanced by not having the wiring as symmetrical and having some panelled meshes in the floor and ceiling. Although the lighting is quite simple I do think it complements the scene. Be careful of your shadows becoming too black. Good work.
• Great work! And I am going to tell you why just in a moment. But first I am going to tell you the points you can improve and that I had a hard time finding some. Mainly in production, you should have in mind the levels of resource optimization. What you have done here is ok for Unreal, but you have to keep in mind you could end up working on different platforms and engines that have different restrictions for the levels of geometry detail. Another thing will be in the UVs, you should try to keep all the elements as straight and rectangular as possible. In the uv map of wall connectors, I think, you could give some rectangular modifiers on some elements also on the door back and roof. The things that i really appreciate was the light tuning, material tuning and..the unexpected one and probably the most important, the production time management in relation with the quality of the end product. Something that sometimes in studios, people are struggling. That moment when you started working on that room, and realized that you could deliver a better more finalized scene if you switched the theme/location. I think that was a good effort and a prof of a production mindset putting time and detail to work together, to deliver the best you could, even though you made another scene besides that. Again, good work and keep it up!
• Great work here, lots of good approaches to tackle this environment. Only technical suggestion is to investigate how you might approach this environment using trim textures and tiles. Overall great work.
• I think you've got a technically sound piece here, and have shown that you understand production workflows that a lot of studios will follow. The end result is a good piece for your portfolio - with some extra work I think you can make this shine even more. I agree with your self-assessment in your conclusion, and am glad you realize where the potential shortcomings in this scene lie, and that your documentation has helped showcase your thought process from beginning to end. I would like to see you potentially revisit your lighting mood-board again and see how you can improve your final scene with a lighting pass. At the moment, your final result doesn't seem to quite capture the color represented, and it feels somewhat monotone overall. You've done good in creating focal points with the lighting itself, but the final color could be pushed a bit more, along with some use of post-processing to help create a bit more depth. Consider bending the tunnel in general, similar to the references you have posted, and push some of your lights to create more visible shapes if you can. Your final presentation is decent, but I think lowering the camera angle, or framing parts of the scene might help sell the details more. Right now, due to the level of detail all across the scene - some of it gets lost, and with better lighting, some larger shape variety (the tunnel itself) and some more focused camera shots you would be able to showcase all the work you've done.