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The Ordinary Depository
Once a grand ballroom, this space has been transformed into a living archive, where history and innovation intertwine. The library boasts rotating shelves, allowing for effortless access to countless volumes, while desks glide smoothly alongside you, ensuring your work is never interrupted. At the back wall, a peculiar porthole compass glows softly, its celestial patterns casting an enigmatic light over the empty yet active space.
The Concept
In my piece "The Ordinary Depository," I envisioned a surreal setting where a Victorian estate, seemingly uprooted from Earth, floats in the vast expanse of space. This depository, once a grand ballroom, has been repurposed into an archive and laboratory. It features a library with rotating shelves and meridian desks that maneuver around anyone drafting blueprints under the lamplight. At the very back, on a platform made of planks, stands a podium fixed with two ports, tangled in wires connected to two generators and a middle console, all leading to a porthole on the back wall.
The Breakdown
I'm responsible for all aspects of this interior environment. Since this project was my own concept it posed a lot of challenges when deciding on what to finalize because an artists' work is never truly finished, but it made me realize interesting new ways to bring more depth and detail without having to create things entirely from scratch.
When designing the metal fencing around the second level catwalk I modeled a symmetrical and easy mirror pattern. Through good old kit bashing, this design set the base design for other embellishments along the wall, windows and even wallpaper.
Other pieces that make up the portal gate and the wire attachment bases on the side walls of the back wall share much of the same ports. The two big generators on the ground also share their rotating element with the center console. If you notice the design of the newel posts on the staircases match the legs of the revolving meridian desks. Even the design stemming from the fence has made its way on the front of the console as well.
Other aspects of this piece that required some simulation was the curtains over the revolving library, which I used Marvelous Designer to bunch and fold the velvet curtains to the curved rim.
Here are some work in progress shots while texturing in substance painter:
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