Blue Wizard Tower -- Enviornment Project -- School Assignment

For our first semester exam, we were tasked with creating an environment and main prop for one of three fabricated environments in a theoretical Lord of the Rings prequel show. I chose the Blue Towers environment. The base seemed Turkish/Islamic in inspiration, so I leaned into it. Since two of the wizards in the movies seem to enjoy smoking from a pipe, I decided to make my main prop a magic hookah.

From there, I made my concepts, and had to model the hookah, curtains, carpets, plants, plant pots, windows alphas, and lamps in Maya, as well as give each and every one of them and the rest of the environment shaders in substance painter. I then rendered out the scene's AOVs and used after effects to combine them.

This took two months.