Abandoned 1980s Space Command Centre

Intro

I have created an environment for the Grads and Games Search for a Star challenge. The environment I have decided to make is an abandoned 1980s space command centre that has a broken wall leading to a view of a rocket on a launch pad. My environment is still a work in progress which I will be trying to finish, to get it to a high standard.

Environment idea summary

My original idea for my environment is an old, rusted, abandoned, overgrown, Nasa style command centre that has a partially collapsed wall in the centre of some large broken screens, with a view of an old rusted rocket. What gave me this idea were scenes mostly from the game Rust which is set on an island filled with massive relics of old monuments nearly rusted away to nothing. In the game there are the remains of a rocket on a launch pad, this reminded me of Fallout 4 another game where everything was in ruins and I thought of all the consoles, devices and machines which gave me the idea of the console room overlooking the rocket through the collapsed wall. I liked the design of the terminals in Fallout 4 and decided to include some similar to other console and terminals in the time period they were made.

The layout of this idea for my environment will be in a room filled with command consoles, tape recorders and screens, with paint scratched off and edges worn away to give the impression that they have been there a long time. Some dust will be on the screens and buttons, the consoles will be filled with buttons and dials. There will be recording devices with large reels of tape on them to the sides of the room. At the back of the room there will be a raised platform and rail overlooking all the consoles and the hole in the wall. The walls will have plaster falling off and the centre wall with the screens on will have half a big screen hanging off the wall off to the side where the hole is overgrown with vines, also lights and wires will be hanging from the ceiling. There will be vines coming from outside the collapsed portion of the wall into the room covering some pieces of the consoles. I was thinking of adding some small extra objects like headphones or phones along with a skeleton collapsed at one of the consoles to stop the environment from feeling too empty. The time of day will be set at sunset so the light will light up the room well enough to see it with a view off the rocket in front of an orange cloud filled sky.

I wanted to make the environment have an atmosphere that would make the place feel abandoned and forgotten, with a sense that nature is reclaiming it.