Rapa Nui 3D environment

  • University project
  • Year 2023
  • Tools Blender
Textured 3D terrain block of Rapa Nui with a crater lake and a raised coastline, casting a long shadow on a pale floor

What was the brief?

The Earth Museum, a not-for-profit, asked for virtual environments and objects for an immersive learning resource. One environment was to be a volcanic cultural landscape on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), such as Rano Raraku, with related objects such as a moai.

University coursework for a brief set by The Earth Museum.

Part of BA (Hons) Digital Media Design, University of Winchester

Pictures

  • The textured terrain seen from above at an angle: the dry crater, green and brown land and dark sea along the coast
  • The same view with water in the crater lake
  • Low view across a textured hillside with small moai figures standing on the slope
  • Ground-level view of a textured moai in front of a sandy slope, with more moai on the hill behind
  • Ground-level view across dark water towards a brown volcanic hill
  • Greyscale render of the terrain block showing the crater lake and the raised coastline
  • Title card reading Rapa Nui Easter Island 3D environment, with The Earth Museum logo and the terrain block
  • Moai model with a grey-green rock texture on a square plinth, rendered in Cycles
  • The textured moai rendered in Eevee, with darker blue-green stone
  • Untextured 3D model of a moai: a cream, low-poly head with a heavy brow and a long nose on a square plinth
  • The untextured moai rendered in Eevee, in cream with blue shadows
  • The moai model in Blender's grey Workbench view
  • Five small renders of the moai side by side, labelled Workbench, Eevee engine, Cycles engine, Eevee textured and Cycles textured

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