The style of this work is largely inspired by Jan Krocak and Mikael Gustafsson. Along with the dioramas of the youtube channel Boylei Hobby Time. The environment was based off a roblox showcase game called Above The Forest which was taken down a while ago but seems to have been archived. During the creation of this project I also played Firewatch. I have a love for warm cool contrast and cozy environemnts as you can see in the rest of my portfolio.

This video shows what the project looked like at different points in its creation. I tried many different color choices before eventually settling on the blue orange colors.

During researching reference for this project I discovered that Above The Forest was actually based on a a structure in Whitefish Montana with photos from this article

here are some behind the scenes views of the project from the viewport to get a better idea of how it functions.

Animation

All the animations were carefully manipulated to produce a perfect looping effect. This is some complicated due to the amount of effects in this scene. But there is a set of general techiques I have applied arcoss many of my projects to make things loop seamlessly.

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For the particles system the same particle system was duplicated three times and played back overlapping at different points in the animation. This diagram hopefully helps explain how this works.