Series: Ron Cobb's bulkhead door in Blender

Learning 3D, I wanted to take on a project going from Blender's default cube to a game-ready asset. Creating the high- and low-poly mesh, UV unwrapping, baking, texturing, rigging, animating, adding sound, and finally having it presentable in a game engine.

This article series is my journey doing that, recreating Ron Cobb's bulkhead door he sketched for the movie Alien (1979).

Part 1: Creating Ron Cobb's bulkhead door in Blender

On the left, the image shows an open bulkhead door from the movie Alien; on the right, Ron Cobb's sketch.

On my way learning 3D with Blender, I try to recreate a bulkhead door from the Alien universe as drawn by the amazing Ron Cobb.

Part 2: My journey learning 3D: Materials and Textures

Image shows a close up of my final render of the bulkhead door, looking at a part of the inner barrier door with warning label.

Recreating Ron Cobb's bulkhead door from Alien, it is time to create materials, add textures, and details. But not before I fixed some problems with the mesh.

Part 3: Rigging and animating a bulkhead door in Blender

A screenshot of Blender, showing a part of the bulkhead door with a selected armature rendered in front of it.

After having the bulkhead door modeled and textured, all I have so far are a few static images. It's time for rigging and animating the door, finally adding life to it.

Part 4: Environment design in Blender

I want to deepen my Blender knowledge by tuning my workflow and getting more experience modelling a complete environment for the door. Including more animations and adding some VFX.

Part 5: Showcase in Game Engine

As I want to learn Unreal Engine I take the opportunity and will bring my door into the game engine.

Part 6: Sound + Final result

The last ingredient for a complete workflow will be learning about sound design, and creating my own.

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