TedXUIdaho2018's Beyond the Peaks

My employers at Tedx asked for something surreal, UIdaho-related and 3D to represent their 2018 talks, and this is what we came up with.
This is our University's admin building, one of the most iconic and beautiful structures on our campus. Its clock tower chimes can be heard far across the city of Moscow, Idaho, peacefully reminding us when we should be in class. One night, out of space descends a space ship, molded to resemble the Admin's clock tower and surrounding buildings. Or could it be from the future, here to save us all? In a flash of light, it whisks the Admin building off into the sky.

This building is also where the Tedx talks were held! And its clock really does glow a bit like that at night.

This is all rendered in Unreal Engine, which handles the bajillion star particle effects quite nicely. I modeled the building and spaceship myself in 3ds Max.

TedXUIdaho's 2018 Opening Cinematic. The music is from Zach Bjorlund, another University of Idaho Student.

Here's the looping version of the animation, designed to play in the background of a website.

Here's the program cover I made for TedxUIdaho, I'd love to show the inside of the manual too but need that would be a little strange to show on Artstation.

This is a standard badge for attendees, which everyone in the audience got.
I didn't make the original buildings on here, but I added the additional vector art stars.

This is a simplified logo I made for TedxUidaho 2018.

This is another logo I made for TedxUidaho 2018, to play off of the space theme.

The flyer that went around campus for TedxUidaho 2018. I tried to stylize it like some of the band posters you see around town.

A facebook wallpaper I made for TedxUidaho 2018. The spaceship is gone, because I think it would have looked weird in this version.

The Actual Admin Building at University of Idaho.

A more photogenic revisit I made to this project for the BOISE RAW ART 2019 Show.