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The quarter is finally over though technology continues to give me a headache.

I took an Environment and Level Design course that required me to make narrative, concept art, maps, assets and textures to import into UDK using Maya and Photoshop. I'm not huge into full narratives in games, but for this project I chose Alice in Wonderland as my inspiration. The idea was to give the player a place to explore with some optical tricks (for example, the upper-left shot is a faked perspective room done by scaling things smaller and angling the room to make it look like a long hallway).

Being a total noob-chan in the Maya and UDK realm, this project was really helpful because I reached new accomplishments and was bazooka'd completely out of my comfort zone. I'm proud with the result of the effort I put in plus the time and tears it took to get things to work properly, but I don't feel comfortable somewhat with knowing I would have approached this more elegantly if I had control or speed in 3D apps like I do with a pencil. Minor things, basically more practice will help match my art direction with what I execute.

Thanks to RuchiiP and captkiro for helping me with questions and panicking.
RuchiiP volunteered to answer my UDK questions and CaptKiro basically taught me how to UV and do a whole bunch of stuff that would have saved my ass if I had learned it the first time.

For now I'm so glad it's over..( * _ * )
Also a team I worked with won first place for a 24 hour level design contest at my uni but the prize is 2 Unity Pro licenses and there's 5 of us...so...not sure how that's gonna go. I uploaded a walkthrough of my Alice level but couldn't get music working with it.

PS the shots look so much better in download view

Description
The quarter is finally over though technology continues to give me a headache.

I took an Environment and Level Design course that required me to make narrative, concept art, maps, assets and textures to import into UDK using Maya and Photoshop. I'm not huge into full narratives in games, but for this project I chose Alice in Wonderland as my inspiration. The idea was to give the player a place to explore with some optical tricks (for example, the upper-left shot is a faked perspective room done by scaling things smaller and angling the room to make it look like a long hallway).

Being a total noob-chan in the Maya and UDK realm, this project was really helpful because I reached new accomplishments and was bazooka'd completely out of my comfort zone. I'm proud with the result of the effort I put in plus the time and tears it took to get things to work properly, but I don't feel comfortable somewhat with knowing I would have approached this more elegantly if I had control or speed in 3D apps like I do with a pencil. Minor things, basically more practice will help match my art direction with what I execute.

Thanks to RuchiiP and captkiro for helping me with questions and panicking.
RuchiiP volunteered to answer my UDK questions and CaptKiro basically taught me how to UV and do a whole bunch of stuff that would have saved my ass if I had learned it the first time.

For now I'm so glad it's over..( * _ * )
Also a team I worked with won first place for a 24 hour level design contest at my uni but the prize is 2 Unity Pro licenses and there's 5 of us...so...not sure how that's gonna go. I uploaded a walkthrough of my Alice level but couldn't get music working with it.

PS the shots look so much better in download view