The Old Kingdom (Abhorsen) Trilogy

This is the series of books that I decided to choose, the books are by one of my favourite Authors Garth Nix. For my final Project I have chosen to do make two Diorama's of environments from the world within these books.

Proposal:  What do you intend to do?

To improve my knowledge and understanding of realistic rendering, specifically Physically-based rendering (PBR). I will be using substance designer to create materials and textures assets in high detail using procedural texturing. I will use these newly learnt techniques in my workflow to create two dioramas portraying environments based upon the books The Abhorsen Trilogy that I read as a child. Each Diorama will contain a variety of assets that will be researched, these are; material, form, history and its relevance within the books.

I aim to reimagine two particular scenes from this trilogy; because these aren’t illustrated within the book I will be interpreting the text to portray the scenes in the form of a diorama. One diorama would capture the penultimate scene set beneath the palace of an underground reservoir containing The Charter Stones and supported by ancient pillars. The other will be the main characters house named The Abhorsen's House which is located on a small Island on the River Ratterlin.

 I will be displaying these dioramas in Marmoset Toolbag 2 in the form of an interactive turntable, this will allow the user to navigate each model allowing them to view it from multiple angles.