Edgar Allan Poe was a nineteenth-century American author, best known for his work in Gothic fiction.
He was one of the authors who helped define the Detective Fiction genre, by writing the first detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841).
The story played an important role in defining the basic structure of a detective story:
- The detective is introduced by a second person (narrator)
- Facts and clues of the murder are presented to the detective
- Detective visits the crime scene to form his own analysis
- The truth is revealed
Of course, it's still a Poe story with memorable disturbing, gory details.
The Story, as written by Poe
The story is written in 6 parts:
Focus of the Project
The murders took place in Paris, in the summer of 1840.
Two women - a mother and a daughter - were murdered in their bedroom, in an old house on the Rue Morgue.
In this project, I modeled and textured my take on the crime scene.
I focused on the way the facts were presented to Dupin (the detective). He read about the crime in the morning newspaper. Newspapers in the nineteenth century had hand-drawn pictures using limited colors.
My environment will follow the same visual style:
Visual Style Moodboard (Images from Google)
Environment Plan
Environment Design Sketch
Moodboards
Moodboard - Architecture (Images from Google)
Moodboard - Bed (Images from Google)
Moodboard - Furniture (Images from Google)
Moodboard - Decoratives (Images from Google)
Sculpts (ZBrush)
Renders
Environment Render - Textured with aiToon OSL shader
Environment Render - Textured with aiToon OSL shader
Environment Render - Lambert
Environment Render - Wireframe
Close Up Render
Close Up Render
Close Up Render
Thank You!
Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Arnold in Maya
(made as part of the class ANIM 748 Fall 2022 at SCAD Savannah)
