Educational VR Museum
My Graduate Thesis for my MFA from the Creative Technologies department at Virginia Tech.
The goal of this project was to create a VR natural history museum that brings the user into the habitat of a particular animal and educate the users through a mix of visual and audio and interactivity.
I modeled, textured, rigged and animated the various fish species in the scene with the help of a fish school system bought from the UE4 marketplace for the smaller fish.
I modeled, textured and light the several different environments using Maya, Substance Painter and assemble them in Unreal Engine 4.
Level 1 video capture
Level 2 video
Lighting render test of one of the architectural explorations for the museum space.
Second museum space exploration. This one is based on the Africa Hall at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
The museum mesh in then imported into UE4 and populated with skeletons of animals that can be learned about.
Level 1 final version. This level serves as the initial "hub" for user to explore different animal skeletons.
Level 2 final version. This level serves as the habitat of the blue whale which is the animal the user is learning about.
Level 3 final version. This level shows the negative impact of humans on the world's ocean. Namely plastic pollution.
concept art of a leopard as a possible animal to learn about.
Rig of leopard
Grey White Shark model
Orca model
Blue Whale model