Batavia 1627
It has been a bit silence on my Artstation page for a while, this is because I spend all my time ( 1.5 year) in my new project Batavia 1627.
I tried to merge my CG worlds into a realtime large VR environment. For this I cooperated with a Dutch museum to display all of this in a VR setup on location. We picked the HP Reverb to display the content. The project was intense, I had lots of challenges to make it work, but happy to see it all working now. All assets where made with Blender. I used the Unreal engine 4 to make it work in VR.
In this post I like to show you all the development from start to end. In short, Batavia is nowadays called Jakarta. My reference was an old map from 1627. I worked with a researcher to help me with all architecture details. Characters and boats where created by team members.
Texture Haven was used for most texture work.
Batavia 1627 VR trailer (Ue4)
CG render made with Blender cycles. view on the skyline of Batavia
CG render made with Blender cycles. View on the city square
CG render made with Blender cycles. Small Island near Batavia
CG render made with Blender cycles. view on the Batavia river
Map reference from 1627 i used for recreate Batavia
First blockout of the main fort
Outlining of the city map in UE4. I split op the city and the background landscape into two terrains.
Adding first buildings. Finding the right scaling
Slowly adding more buildings and painting some first color into the world
View from above, halfways the project
Close up from some atap buildings. Local building design made from thatch and bamboo
Batavia had many architecture styles This was the chinese look
Europe/dutch renaissance style.
random large building.
low poly atap buildings
low poly / random buildings
One of the more detailed buildings
Showing building development. Many structures where replaced by more detailed designs.
Dutch Boat design by Nicolò Zubbini
Chinese Boat design by Nicolò Zubbini
Final skyline view in UE4
Top view of the city (ue4)
random street close details (ue4)
inside one of the buildings (ue4)
inside one of the buildings (ue4)
market scene (ue4)
Market scene ( ue4)
main character designs inside UE4 ( Bruno Cesar)
Eva, main character. render in Blender cycles ( todor nikolov)
Coen, main character. Render in Blender cycles ( todor nikolov)
mesties womand, NPC ( rico cilliers)
chinese salkesman, NPC (rico cilliers)
Dutch musketiers, NPC ( rico cilliers)
chinese villagers, NPC ( rico cilliers)
Dutch Salesman, NPC (rico cilliers)
Chinese villager, NPC ( rico cilliers)
Indian slaves, NPC ( rico cilliers)
Batavia VR teaser ( UE4)
NG Cover
The final VR setup in the museum of the Golden age