Elsewhere Survey - Transitional Spaces in Videogames

Year: 2023
Job: Master Thesis Survey Project
Engine: Unreal Engine 5
Project Page: Elsewhere Survey - Transitional Spaces in Videogames

SkyCar Vehicle

Turntable here: MazeHead Artstation Portfolio

Year: 2020

Technical details:

24.8K Verts
48.3K Faces & Tris
4 x 4K Textures
Software: Blender, Substance Painter

Exercise hard surface modeling / texturing of a flying car. Inspired by one of my favorite films: "The Fifth Element".

Atlas statue

Year: 2020

Technical details [Highpoly]:

11K Verts
22K Faces & Tris
22K Texture
Software: Blender, Substance Painter

Table statue of the mythological figure "Atlas".

Walkie-talkie Radio

Year: 2018

Technical details:

2K Verts
3.9K Faces
3.9K Tris
4K Texture
Software: Blender, Substance Painter

Modeling / texturing exercise and another asset for my side project: The CTecCom walkie-talkie. A class B anomaly object, no one knows who it originally belongs to or where it comes from, but it often appears in temporary reality fractures and transmit radio messages of unknown origin.

Building Wall

Year: 2019

Technical details:

4972 Verts
9410 Faces
9410 Tris
2K Texture
Software: Blender, Substance Painter

Modeling / texturing exercise: A modular building part for my Windows Parlax material (not included).

Infer Origin

Technical details:

124K Verts
242K Faces
242K Tris
4K Texture (4x)
Software: Blender, Make Human, Substance Painter

Infer is a character that I modeled for the MaszeHead project. It is a mascot for the label and a NPC placeholder for my projects. Infer still has a lot of backstory, but it will be revealed over time.

Security Locker

Year: 2019

Technical details:

1472 Verts
2776 Faces
2776 Tris
Locker 2K Texture
Key 1K Texture
Software: Blender, Substance Painter, Krita

Game furniture Asset for Project EV.

Sci-fi Phone Device

Year: 2019

Technical details:

1265 Verts
1488 Faces
1488 Tris
2K Texture
Software: Blender, Substance Painter, Krita

Hero game asset for my little side project: The GCom 031s (no branding edition) by CTec - A sci-fi phone device or smartphone. It is an older model in-game, so it seems a bit worn and aged. But I have also added a clean version for comparison. The interface is just a placeholder and far from being final. The GCom has no Hologram display but a glass plate as a projection screen that can be removed. Without glass display, the device still has rudimentary communication features. A model consists of 3 elements and 3 textures.

Ceremonial Sword

Year: 2014 (Original) 2019 (Retexture)

Technical details:

2320 Verts
4592 Faces
4592 Tris
2K Texture
Software: 3Ds Max (Original Sword Version), Substance Painter (Retexture)

An old game asset that I did a few years ago: A ceremonial sword. Should originally be used as a decoration. Unfortunately never used. So... to get better in Substance Painter I re-textured the model.

EV Credit-Sticks

Year: 2019

Technical details:

2332 Verts
5612 Faces
5612 Tris
2K Texture
Software: Blender, Substance Painter, Krita

Game Asset made for a small game project I'm working on. Early drafts for the ingame currency: credit-sticks - in three different condition variants.

EV Battery Pack

Year: 2019

Technical details:

2827 Verts
5466 Faces
5466 Tris
2K Texture
Software: Blender, Substance Painter, Krita

Another game asset for my game project (EV) I'm working on. Draft for battery packs with different charging states.

Voxel Redlight Building

Year: 2018
Software: MagicaVoxel

Small voxel test with the fantastic software MagicaVoxel.

Cool program, give it a try!

In Memory of

Year: 2017-2018
Job: Level/Evironment Design, Scripting, VFX & Lighting
Engine: Unreal Engine 4

In Memory of is a work based on Ad Infinitum and represents my conclusion of my work on the project. Part of the assets used in this work come from the original student project and the other part was specially created by 3D artist Benjamin Assig (also member of the original project). This work should later be used for our theses.

Credit to all members of the Ad Infinitum student team (see Ad Infinitum)
|Ad Infinitum Team| Benjamin Assig, David-Kay Solèr, Lukas Deuschel, Nicklas Luckwald

Sunset Apt.

Year: 2018
Engine: Unreal Engine 4

Sunset Apartments is a small experimental pixel / cyberpunk / NeoNoir trailer for a dropped game concept. Environment is mostly modeled in 3D, characters and items are 2D sprites.

New Data Traffic

Year: 2017

New Data Traffic is an endless tunnel runner prototype and was created as part of a small private game jam in 2018.

Based on Unreal Engine 4, the game generates a new route with randomly positioned obstacles every time it starts. The player can rotate 360 degrees with limited sideways movements while accelerating per meter. In addition, all textures and additional effects are color-adaptable in the customize settings.

The game is completely scripted with blueprints. Meshes were created in Blender and textures with Krita.

The game version is currently 0.8 alpha and was not released due to time constraints.

Corpse: Soldier

Year: 2014

Technical details:

9132 Verts
18277 Faces
18277 Tris
2K Texture
Software: 3Ds MAX, ZBrush, Quixel NDO, Photoshop

The Corpse: Soldier model was created as part of a homework assignment of the HAW Hamburg's Sound-Vision & Games course. Later it was planned to reuse the model as a corpse model in another project.

Ad Infinitum

Year: 2015
Job: 3D Art, Level/Evironment Design, Programming/Scripting, VFX
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Genre: First Person Horror Survivial Adventure

"A deserted soldier is looking for his brother who was lost in the war. The first clues lead him further and further away from the actual battlefields. The world is becoming more and more alien and it is no longer just the thunder of the howitzers that follows its trail."

Ad Infinitum's focus is heavily on visual and narrative implementation. The whole thing takes place in a surreal scenario of the First World War and takes a critical look at the topic.

Ad Infinitum was developed by a student team of the master course Game Design as Master Project at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg.

Website: HAW Games Master Portfolio

Follow-up work: In Memory of

|David-Kay Solèr| 2D Art, Narrative Design, PR & Social Media
|Benjamin Assig| 3D Art, Animation, Logo Design
|Lukas Deuschel| Sound / Music Design, 3D Art, Creature Design / Animation
|Nicklas Luckwald| 3D Art, Level/Environment Design, Programming, VFX & Lighting

Doors to Perception

Year: 2014
Job: 3D Art
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Software: 3DS Max, ZBrush, Photoshop

The video game Doors to Perception is a playable interpretation of the visual world of polish artist Zdsislaw Beksinski. The game experiment offers fantastical interactive settings which players can explore through a VR–supported first-person perspective.

Doors to Perception is developed by a team of the master course Game Design at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg.

Website: Doors to Perception

|2D Art| Laura Bolter, Anna Dorokhova, Martin Kleingräber, David-Kay Solèr
|3D Art| Benjamin Assig, Lukas Deuschel, Nicklas Luckwald, Valentin Sekinger
|Programming| Matthias Ewald, Stephen Fuhrmann, Oliver Eichner
|Pr & Social Media| Florian Haase
|Project Management| Maik Helfrich

Factory

Year: 2013
Engine: NeoAxis Engine 1.3

Factory is a first person horror adventure prototype that I did as homework for the HAW Hamburg entrance exam. I had about a month for this task, so a lot of features are missing and are only in the game as mockups, such as the inventory and diary system, but player interaction and movement were already fully implemented.

S.E.C.T.O.R. Boardgame

Year: 2012

Max. Players: 4

Engine: AR-System: Java & Flash (FLARManager)

Software: Flashbuilder

The project “S.E.C.T.O.R.” is an augmented reality board game.

You can play the game with AR technology as well as analog without technology.

Developed in collaboration with Bruno B. Richter.

About

Hi there,

I'm nickNALien, a German 3D/Technical Artist, specializing in hard surface modeling and environment design.
I also enjoy working with shaders/materials and often script mechanics and features, mainly with Unreal Engine 4/5.

I studied communication design (B.A.) and am currently doing my master's degree: Sound/Vision & Games (majoring in game development).
I'm mainly a freelancer and currently working as a solo developer.

Got Interested? Cool! Write to me via one of my social media contacts:

MASTODON @nickNALien

TWITTER @MazeHeadProject

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