ABOUT

Project ŚHESH- NĀG is a set of personal Environment concept designs in fantasy genre using 3D techniques for cinematic production. Storytelling is inspired from ancient Hindu mythology of a cosmic serpent and showcases a fictional journey of a character from current world to find Shesh-nag mountain, explore mysterious caves, find the crystal Lotus temple, awaken the 7 Chakras of his subtle human body and travel via magical portal to the Doors of the Netherworld (underwater world where lives the God of all serpents, Shesh-nag).

Project showcases a strong understanding of lighting, composition and use of different colors while keeping the aesthetic sense and mood of the painting. Brief workflow of this 3 months project includes basic thumbnail sketches, setting up displacement maps to creature terrains for caves, modelling assets in Maya and ZBrush, use of variety of materials, textures, and lights set in renderers as Arnold and Keyshot, and paintover techniques in Photoshop. Aim was to achieve realistic style professional quality of environment designs and develop quick and creative problem-solving approach, to be prepared to work in industry and as freelancer.