The elevator scene from Stranger Things was one of those images that immediately stuck in my mind. Descending back down to the lab for the first time after the incident, ill-prepared for what they're soon to discover.
I knew straight away I had to re-create and put my own take on it, knowing it would be a great learning challenge for me, picking up plenty of techniques in lighting, modelling, composition and rendering along the way.
The plan was to kit-bash the environment together but in the end I modelled everything from scratch. I managed to realise my vision and I'm very pleased with the outcome, especially the light beams and floating debris which I'd pretty much based the entire image around, that took some getting right.
Here's a few other bits, early iterations/ideas and some screenshots of heavily pixelated pre-passes that I just thought looked awesome.
Thanks as always for checking out my work.
