CG LAB: «Armenbium» for HSE: metaverse

HSE: Metaverse is a platform for demonstrating the interactive and 3D projects of students at the Design School. It includes: a fully-fledged client application with a multiplayer and network; a webGL version launched in a browser with a simplified functionality.

Armenbium is a location inspired by the old cartoons of Armenfilm. The idea was to create a painting space that contained objects that were familiar to all cartoons, or that would cause nostalgia on them.

At first, the idea of the location was for the player to walk in some kind of pool with the beach, studying all the exhibits. Then we came to a different form of terrain — a mountain in the shape of a spiral. This decision was made so that the player would not be able to look at the entire area immediately and pass through all the exhibits in turn.

The first version of the blockage was a failure. When we tried to walk it for the first time, it turned out that the fields of the mountains were too narrow. The player often fell from them, and there was little room for the exhibits. We started developing a new blockage.

Daria Starchenko is the author of the idea, Anna Zaharova is the modeler, texture artist, designer Vladislav Lavrujin is the modeler, texture artist