Towering ruined library filled with warm light and overgrown vegetation

Personal game development

Game environments & cinematics

Personal game-development work for The Vanishing Memories, combining environment art, lighting, cinematics and playable-demo development.

Role: Environment, lighting, cinematics & demo development
Output: Game development · rendered cinematic images
Tools: Unreal Engine 5 · Sequencer · Blueprints

The context

The Vanishing Memories

Build environments that support exploration and narrative while keeping a strong cinematic identity through lighting, composition and real-time sequencing.

My contribution

I develop the environments, visual direction, lighting and cinematics, and I contribute to level design, gameplay presentation and playable-demo implementation in Unreal Engine 5.

The approach

Each location needs to work both as a navigable space and as a composed image. I develop environment structure, lighting and camera language together so exploration and storytelling reinforce one another.

Environments
Lighting
Cinematics
Technical Art

Selected images

Project views.

Environment, lighting and narrative studies from the game.

Timber village beside water beneath a pale sky

Overgrown industrial interior with plants and shafts of daylight

Golden light at the centre of a deep cylindrical structure

Small orange robot surrounded by plants in a rocky setting

Process

Inside Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine environment setup, lighting controls and development views.

Unreal Engine editor showing a coastal island environment — Island environment inside Unreal Engine

Outcome

Delivered work.

Playable-demo work, environment art and cinematic material for an ongoing personal game project, with the visual language developed directly in Unreal Engine 5.

Alfonso Escalona — environment composition, lighting, cinematic direction and demo development.

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