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• Submission Title: Coconut Mall Station Submission Tier: Search for a star Assessor: Dominic Shaw Environment Artist @ Firesprite Research + Development You have done some nice research into the mood and lighting for this environment and I think you could have got some more real world reference of every prop that you were planning to make. It would have also been good to see some more planning such as asset lists and time plans has this really helps with the production of the environment. Creative Art You have created a really interesting environment here and I like that you can look out into the city skyline, the scrolling textures, graffiti and the oven hobs cooking really helps to bring more character and story into the environment so good job on this! I really like the sculpt you did for the bin bag and that you created some characters for the shop front. I think to help improve the environment, some of the textures could do with a bit of work, such as the glass texture on the main doors as currently they look like a solid colour whilst they could look better as reflective glass. and the train area could do with being a bit brighter through either lighting or brightening the textures of the train. Technical Art You have a good understanding of game art which is good and to help improve you could start using substance designer for the tiling textures instead of Zbrush, both methods work but having knowledge of designer will be really helpful for jobs. The other thing that would help improve the environment is to model some buildings in front of the image you are using for the background city, the method you have used is good but you can really tell that this is just a photo on a plane so you want to use this method for the far background. Some buildings will help the mid ground of the environment. Documentation You provided a good breakdown of all the processes you used for the project which is great. Final Presentation The final presentation is good and it’s an interesting environment, I think to help improve on this, you could brighten up the environment a bit has there is a lot of really dark areas and you could add a few more variation of colours of lighting in there too to help match your original concepts.