Indiana Jones and The Great Circle - Shanghai Environment Breakdowns

Shanghai oldtown environment - I tackled this space from very early ideation to final shipping, touching on pretty much every aspect of it. Since the environment team was very small, and I often needed to work on this entirely by myself, creating and efficient and smart modularization was a top priority for me.
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The most interesting part was nailing the authentic look, which is what breathes the life into our game, in my opinion. In quite a short time, I was drowning in reference, often confliction or driving into different direction. Realizing that, I tried to stick to only a handful of pictures, which would represent the old architecture, taken from villages and environment that survived in their authentic, untouched look to this day.
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The other challenge was tackling the destruction aspect, but I will touch on that in the other Artstation project.
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Time being tight, as it always seems to be the case, meant that I really needed to focus on the big picture, which meant overall architectural cohesion. Which in this case was a blast, I personally thought that this architectural style was super cool.
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Another very important aspect was tackling interiors, sadly I just didn't have the time to do breakdowns for that (yet at least :D)