Personal project, prop recreation

A fan recreation of the telescope from Riven. The Myst series was one of the reasons I got into environment art.

The only reference is pre-rendered 2D from a single angle, so I had to work out the 3D form from that. I blocked out the hard-surface shapes in 3ds Max and sculpted the finer detail in ZBrush. Then I baked it down and made PBR materials in Substance Painter, layering the weathering and patina by hand so the metal and brass look old rather than dirty.

Reference

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