"The Desk of a Not a Very Good Person". The idea came because I wanted to model something vintage, started modeling the clock just for practice, but then I decided to give it a story, hence the whole set was created.
This took me 3 weeks to finish, two weeks for modeling and one for texturing, plus 2 days of lighting and rendering.
I used Maya for the modeling, Substance Painter for texturing and Unreal Engine for lighting and rendering the scene.
To showcase the assets separately, I rendered them in Maya using Arnold.
The story in the newspaper was created using ChatGPT
Sound Effects from Pixabay.com
"The Desk of a Not a Very Good Person"

More images of the Thompson can be found here https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NywQdd