Graduate Portfolio - Crash Landing Cutscene

Crash Landing Cutscene

22/10/25 - ?? ?? ??

Intro

Link to previous post here

Project Management

Do still have combat anims and rec of the gameplay anims. AS well as present.

Overview

Treatment

Camera is facing the character as if we are looking in through the window screen.

Slouching in the captains chair watching a movie eating popcorn.
Alarm goes off (Red light).
Casually presses a button that makes the alert go off. (Doesn't move much).
Continues to eat popcorn watching the movie.
2 Alerts go off.
Looks slightly concerned, sits up and presses a few buttons and switches. The alerts go off.
Character says "Phew!" and returns to slouching.
3 alarms go off.
Character startled.
Franticly presses buttons.
Alerts momentarily stop.
Character waits cautiously.
Even more alerts go off and flashing lights.
Character panics and exclaims: "Argh! Why won't it stop?!"
Grabs steering controls and as the spaceship crashes.
Cut to the planet scene with character laid on the floor.
Character gets up and dusts themselves off.
Gameplay begins.

Storyboard

Environment Assemble

22/10/25

Soma04 spaceship low poly - interior - Download Free 3D model by L_Krajewski (@L_Krajewski) [843361a]

Industrial Caged Light - Download Free 3D model by Fishboe (@ministephen) [4009774]

SCI-FI CONSOLE - Download Free 3D model by j.sparrow59 (@j.sparrow59) [1e90be7]

Embedding Char - Scale env to char

Post Colour Correction :

Lights - Mesh Light, Emission, Atmosphere

Chair Rig

Bit of a pain :

Attaching Char to seat.

Initially didn't work by parenting the COG CTLR as I couldn't animate on top.

Parent the COG group to the chair. Turn off the constraint to the master. But this has broken the link between master and COG.
This felt glitchy so I added a new group in the rig to be attached to.

Tested other rigged files that referenced the rig and its perfect.

Sound Sourced

25/10/25

Freesound - weather UK 5505 khz 5.30 UTC 231023 by klankbeeld

Animatic

Live Action Reference

Blocking

26/10/25

issue with UV sets for spaceship and walls. Copied uvs over and it worked.

Blocking

27/10/25

Blocking Plus Development. Needs mopre breakdowns especially with typing. Then I need to get it on 4s.

Blocking Plus

28/10/25

Spline

29/10/25

30/10/25

Using EXR and light balance

Polish on face

Test Render

31/10/25

Ears, hair and final lights still needed. Weird shimmery effect on the skin... Seems to be something with the emissiv.

01/11/25

Hair and Ears

02/11/25

Aircraft Workshop 01 HDRI • Poly Haven

Added the above hdri, slow rotate on it, flashing tv screen using expressions to get the flicker on the intensity, exposure and the emissive screen material.

Done numerous test renders to get he flickering not too intense.