For my group project, I have chosen to work on the Steampunk project. After some puzzling, we are now a team of 12. For this week we decided on the style by making a padlet where everyone can add what they think of when they think about steampunk.
To see the result of the Steampunk padlet you can click on this link: https://artslondon.padlet.org/rstolk0320221/moodboard-steampunk-xdzegqc9h6haeove
We also decided on our asset list and what everyone was going to make for the room we have been assigned to. Below you will see all the items we decided on (or had to make) and who the items are assigned to. Some have 3 assets as they asked for and some have 2 assets. Every look dev artist has at least 2 assets to make. Also the CG lead has chosen to also do 1 asset to add to our collection.
Looking at the list I started doing some research and found some references for a standing lamp. Using the search of finding a Steampunk lamp, these references you will see below this text:
From these 2 references I have gone to work on my Lamp asset, I mixed these two references together to get the specific standing lamp that I thought would look better in the scene. For example, when looking at the left lamp I preferred the more bigger foot stand with the bigger gas part. As for the left one I preferred the big lamp at the top.
So I started by making the bottom part of the leg. I had to redo this part a couple of times to make sure that my poly count would not be too much for the end result. I made the 2 parts different parts so that when I would be texturing it would be easier to look at the different parts of the model and give it the right texture.
After this, I started to create the pipes and see if I could connect these together in the way that I would like. As you can see in the 2 different images I also have done the pipes multiple times until I got the right shape for my model. The left one has thinner connecting parts and the right image has thicker ones. I created the straight pipe once, the bent pipe once, and the T pipe once and made it to where they all connect nicely into one another.
I went for a similar shape as the images but tried to combine the 2 shapes so the end part would connect nicely with the bottom part. I also started to add the parts of the lamp to see how I want to design that part and the first big gas meter onto the tubes.