KO-Média is a team project made for the event Chaos Média. It is a VR game in which two people play as a robot and fight in an intense boxing match in a real physical arena while being encouraged by a crowd of overly enthusiastic bots.
All of the visuals in the game were made by me during the course of a hundred hours of work across 2 months. The project contains 7 robot models, one scene, 12 looping animations, 3 ending cutscenes, and one promotional animation. I also took care of importing and setting up all of the models, materials and lighting in Unity.
Programming by Fred-Eric Auger, Nicolas Pelletier, Guillaume Langlois & Adrien Goupil
Physical set by Nicolas Pelletier, Guillaume Langlois & Hans Ritter-San Martin
Audio/video by Nicolas Pelletier
Concept art by Adrien Goupil
The arena was modeled using real boxing rings as reference. I also added sheets around it using Blender's cloth physics.
Full model of the arena
The environment is based on a concept art by Adrien. The room contains stands for the crowd, huge wires hanging from the ceiling, and a jumbotron using a video texture, all accompanied by neon lighting. The goal was to give the place a futuristic but also decrepit look, evoking the feeling of being in an illegal underground stadium.
Full model of the scene
Lil Joe is one of the two playable characters. Certain parts of his designs were difficult to model, namely the plaques on his head and the hood. The model uses a few image textures, such as the grid on his eyes. The character was not given arms to avoid complications in VR.
Lil Joe full model
Bob is the second playable character. This one is much larger and more imposing than his opponent. While his design is generally more complex than Lil Joe, the modeling process was much faster this time around. The optimization is also a lot better.
Bob full model
There are 4 different robot models in the crowd: Crowdbot, Gilbert, Jimothy and Susbot. There is also a cameraman who serves as the referee. All of them were modeled after a reference sketch made by Adrien. The stretchy arms were a bit difficult to make because they involved using some rigging, which I'm not super experienced with.
Cameraman
All robots were given 3 looping animations. These animations were made directly in Unity to avoid having to deal with the annoying importation process. Unity's animator is rather limited, so the animations mostly consist of scaling and rotating the arms. I tried exaggerating everything as much as possible to add some expressiveness.
Animating Crowdbot
At the end of a match, a pre-rendered cutscene plays on the jumbotron showing the winner being congratulated by the referee/cameraman. There is also a tie animation for the rare instances in which the time runs out. Unlike the robot animations, these cutscenes were made in Blender.
Lil Joe victory
Personal project made in 2 weeks which aimed to introduce myself to a couple of things, notably character design and visual effects using Geometry Nodes.
School project that aimed to teach us how to use IK armatures and image projection to simulate a real-life environment. I also added some visual effects for fun.
