Dododex: Taming Calculator - Ark: Survival Evolved

Promo image I made for Dododex, my taming calculator and companion app for the popular game on steam, Ark: Survival Evolved. It was a lot of fun to make this -- I used to play around with 3D software in high school, but I never got too far into it, so I'm excited that Dododex has forced me to play around with Unreal Engine, the software behind the game.

For Dododex, I don't need to work with 3D, but sometimes I just get sucked into it. To make this image, I used the models from the game and repositioned/posed them, added ground/sky textures. Then I adjusted the lighting and added blue and purple spotlights to light up the Dodo's feathers and added some backlighting.

I wanted to make it look like the Dodo had killed the T-Rex, but I'm not sure it comes off that way. I was originally going to put the Dodo on the top of a giant pile of dead dinosaurs, but making the models look like they're piled up naturally was way too much work. 

The character models are copyright Studio Wildcard, and the company openly allows players to remix and build on them. Studio Wildcard has given me permission to use Ark: Survival Evolved imagery for my app.

Dododex is available on iOS and Android.