Grand Theft Auto 3 - Environment Remastered

In my final year of university, I carried out a research project titled "An Investigation Into The Methods And Approaches Employed By AAA Video Games Companies Within The Creation Of Environment Art For Games; An Analysis Of Goals, Procedures, Protocols And Precedence."

Alongside my dissertation on the subject, there was this practical side of the project to visually showcase the knowledge I gathered from my research. As a template for this I utilised a remastering approach, where I analysed and redeveloped a dated game environment as if it were to get recreated in today's standards. The game I chose was Grand Theft Auto 3 (2001), an old favourite game of mine.

When settling on the safe house environment, my approach consisted or stripping the environment down of all its models and textures, to then begin my own development of how I felt the environment should look, with reference to what I learnt from my research. The overall final look I aimed for was "worn away, deserted, unkept"