Cursed Artifacts (2024)

This project is my second major independent work that I've completed since my graduation from FIEA. This is a collection of various cursed artifacts intended to be uploaded and sold on the Unreal Marketplace. In total, this pack has 39 unique objects in it, sorted into 13 different categories that all provide a great deal of variation on a central theme. These categories are Axes, Books, Candles, Daggers, Gems, Hands, Heads, Idols, Scepters, Slabs, Specimens, Swords, and Trophies, with three unique assets to each category. The intent was to create a huge variety of very interesting-looking items that still had a central through-line to keep them consistent, while also making it so that each individual asset was interesting enough that it could be used entirely on its own. I wanted to ensure that this pack, once it hit the Marketplace, had a little something for everyone, while still making it so that it didn't just feel like a bunch of random disjointed items haphazardly thrown together. It was also intended to serve as a showcase of my higher level modeling and texturing techniques - most of the stuff in my portfolio is older work, so I wanted to make sure I had something newer and more complex to display my progress as an artist.
As always, I put special focus towards optimizing the models and textures as much as possible. The vast majority of the models in this project are below 5k triangles, with the most dense model in the pack being below 10.5k triangles. As I intend for this to be a commercial project, I wanted to make sure the assets here would run smoothly on most systems.
This is a project that I've been sitting on for quite some time. As the date in the title implies, this project was begun in late 2023 and completed in early 2024, but I've only just gotten around to publishing it now, at the end of 2025. This is primarily because, over the course of 2024 and onward, I began working as a 3D artist on a volunteer basis with two excellent independent game studios. Those, combined with the part time job I picked up, occupied most of my time and mental energy, and so this project languished on the shelf until now.
Find the project on the Unreal Marketplace at the link below!
https://www.fab.com/listings/80e8875d-3320-47e2-bfbd-66d1322e2ce7