The Signal - Unreal Engine 4

The Signal, is a personal environment art project where I wanted to build a larger stylized environment with the goal of excercise world building, lighting, composition, props and foliage, and a bit of hard surface modeling and texturing.

This project started as a scifi monolith in the pine forest, but then I decided to expand a bit more and try some environment storytelling.

This is a small earth-like planet, with natural and green landscapes which was used by some advanced civilization as a communication satellite (that's why the metallic structures and the light beams towards the sky). Some space exploration crew decided to approach to the planet for research but they crashed due to an interference caused by the signal beams. The crew survived and found the structures which they discovered how to use them to power their instruments and equipment to communicate back and ask for a rescue team. They left behind the crashed spaceship and the equipment after making their way out of the planet safely.

Pipeline: Maya · ZBrush · Substance Designer + Painter · Unreal Engine 4
All assets: original, created from scratch