Black Market Caviar Harvesting

In this scene I wanted to focus on a story. Yes on the outside it looks like a Koi Fish Farm that would be nice, but really, it's an illegal breeding and harvesting grounds for special caviar from a special beast fish. It's really a dirty, bloody mess, and I wanted to convey that in my piece. I focused on each asset for quality and to make each piece make sense in helping tell this dark story.

I started with gathering references, drawing some concepts for some of the graphics that would be used (like the Koi Farms Logo) and watching videos on how caviar is excavated. Then I did an initial blockout in unreal engine, to where I started working on the bigger assets needed like the walls, floors and ceiling. then worked big to small with assets from ceiling vents, water tanks all the way down to the buckets and fishing nets and sink faucets. Everything in this scene is made by yours truly and even tried my hand at the swaying animation of the fish hanging from the hooks and creating the wall fans that have functional rotating blades.

Final touches were adding water to the floor, lighting and set dressing everything to make a cohesive scene that felt alive. Everything took me a solid 3 weeks for completing all assets, animation, textures, lighting, set dressing and compositing. Fell in love with this scene, Hope you enjoy it as well!!!!!