Rationale 

My film was Avatar (2009) and after re watching it i started looking at various styles of architecture from the film a lot of what stood out to me was the use of replicated shapes and panels, I think this was a feature because all of the parts of the base called Hell Gate had to be brought from earth and it would have made sense to have modular parts that could be used to meet a certain requirement on the ground in Pandora.

My modelling style comes from the grid system and is based on world building for games, I chose this because of how easy it is to build modular building bricks and form rooms and hallways and corridors with out needing to make all new assets.

I because of various problems in my personal life haven't been able to finish this environment to a standard i can be proud of however given more time i believe i could have used the textures i began painting in Mari, i could have made a much more impressive environment.

  

RENDERS

Thus Far, testing Vray lights and materials and also room layout and feel from the room.

 Test Layout Render

  Test Layout Render

Piller Lighting Test

Render to test scale

 Render to test scale

Placeing in prop Geo

Lighting Placement Test 1

Lighting Placement Test 2

Still need to sort out my corners and the stair case that comes from the corner

Lighting Placement Test 3

Lighting Placement Test 4

My Build Log

 Platform section made using the 2x2 grid system for game asset creation, I've done this because i wanted to be able to more easily tile my geometry to create the wall of the room

 HVAC pipes, water system and Gas mains(on Pandora cleaning the Air and Water would be very important) I have made a feature of these pipes to emphasis their importance in the structure.

 Upper Walkway
Walkway has LED strip lighting as this is a low light area to save on power usage in the water treatment plant. Also I have decided on the function for the room it will be a area for large water cleaning machines that keep the base of Hellgate in freash drinkable water on the human hostile planet of Pandora.
Upper HVAC

Two Walls down

More Of my research this time from Avatar and Mass Effect

Research 

My Aim is to create a semi underground section of the base in the movie Avatar, the base is known as Hellgate and most of my research has come from 3 main books, First being the Art of Halo 4, second is The Art Of Avatar and the last is the Art of the Mass Effect series.

My sketches will focus on finding a sense of massive scale and darkness.