Bonfire room - UE5 Darksouls inspired fan art - Ben LePage 2024

The focus of this project was to put into practice the skills I have been cultivateing over the last year while teaching at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Inspired by the world of Fromsoftware's Darksouls, I wanted to create my own take on a Bonfire location. Here I created a long forgotten place of worship that has been found again and repurposed to remember a warrior recently lost. Particularly I wanted to focus on prop modeling and Niagra FX, as well as composition, lighting, and environmental story telling.

During this project I was able to utilize many great parts of Unreal engine 5.4 includeing : Niagra partical systems for all FX in the scene, destruciton physics for the broken jars, Nanite tessillation for many of the materials, and using sequences to create and control FX within my cinematics.

Let me know what you think and what I should try next!