Museum Discovery Station - Heidelberg 1622 (UE4)
In 2022, on the occasion of the 400 year anniversary of the Siege of Heidelberg, I had the opportunity to work on an update for the Discovery Station in the Kurpfälzisches Museum, alongside amazing team members from MESO Digital Interiors and Historic VR. The Discovery Station allows visitors to the museum to explore different periods of Heidelberg's history. The installation, conceived and created by MESO features four widescreens and two info-panels allowing visitors to freely fly through the environment in realtime. Back in 2020, I was already part of the first version, which focused on the Celtic and Roman periods. Now, I was happy to be back for the new update, which added a third scenario: the Renaissance period, more specifically, the Siege of 1622.
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This time I was responsible for creating the landscape, for material creation & texturing, for the city walls, the castle gardens and managing the architectural workflows within the Historic VR team.
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An insane amount of generic houses, as well as the Marstall and the Dominikanerkloster were modeled by Anna Tateson:
https://www.artstation.com/annatateson
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Trees & Foliage and more by Sorana-Elena Corbu:
https://www.artstation.com/ellieesart
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Heiliggeistkirche modeled by Ádám Németh:
https://www.artstation.com/nemeth_adam
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Peterskirche & gardens by Rute Rebocho:
https://www.artstation.com/ruterebocho96
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The castle, bridge, towers, gates and more were made by Christian Zollinger and Lennard Hiller:
https://www.artstation.com/rloveution
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Thanks to Achim Wendt and Tobias Schöneweiß for providing the historical references and lots of information!
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The screenshots shown here might slightly differ from the actual experience, due to different post prossesing settings, as well as some extras, such as the birds.
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Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg: https://www.museum-heidelberg.de/Museum-Heidelberg/startseite/digital/hd+discovery+station.html
MESO Digital Interiors: https://meso.design/en/news/high-definition-portal-to-ancient-times
Historic VR: https://historicvr.com/heidelberg-discovery-station.php
I was responsible for creating the landscape, for material & texture creation, for the city walls, the castle gardens and for managing the architectural workflows within the Historic VR team.
Church modeled by Ádám Németh. I was responsible for texturing.
Rute Rebocho and I were responsible for the gardens.
Updated Museum Installation by MESO Digital Interiors for the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg.
Main Reference "Merian"
5s GIF