The Callisto Protocol - SHU Gear Room

Deep within the SHU Cavern of Black Iron Prison. The SHU Gear Room is a very interactive level in the game. Inside at its core, you will find a Grinding machine with large gears on parallel sides of the walls. This mechanism when it rotates, drives the rotation of the outer array of suspended prison cells outside of the Gear Room in the cavern. The corn cob cells.

This is the biggest Level I made for The Callisto Protocol during my time at Striking Distance Studios. I was mainly responsible for the block-out, modeling, texturing, set dressing, decal placement and vertex painting of this scene as well as the Meat Grinder Machine aka The Grind Core. I also designed the mantle machines that take you to the second level deck where the fuse boxes are as well as the pillars the fuse boxes are attached to. So, after I set up the mesh groups, rotation pivots and collisions. I passed the machine to Senior destruction artist Asher Dudley. He then set up the rigging of the Grind Machine and all of its blades, rotors, gears and chains to create an animating environmental hazard that doubled as a tactical weapon.

This scene was also collaborative. I assembled this scene using some modular assets created by other artists for example the health boxes, ceiling kit, floor tile kit, and a few props like the lateral vault-able generators under the Meat Grinder, Cat-walk deck, Fuse Boxes and Yellow guard rails. I was also responsible for cutting and creating the sub-level maze into the floor capped with a ventilation track. These were tactically designed to support a pathway for the enemy ai to navigate in and catch you by surprise when they jump out and attack.

Big thanks to Demetrius Leal and Zheng Wang for helping me with the Art Direction for this as well as fellow 3D Artist Lisa for the final wall designs and textures. Also shoutout to Lighting , Sound, VFX and Animation for helping bring this level to life!

Art Direction - https://www.artstation.com/demetriusleal

https://www.artstation.com/zee2847

Environment Art support - https://www.artstation.com/lisabekkjoh

Additional Props and kit pieces by - https://www.artstation.com/samj

https://www.artstation.com/derekhsakai

https://www.artstation.com/kevin-le

Lighting - https://www.artstation.com/7sao

VFX - https://www.artstation.com/fabiomsilva

Sound - Nassim Ait-Kaci

Ui - Sammi Kim