Meowchemy - Interior Environment

The home of Eclipse, the witchy feline protagonist of my game, where they brew potions. This work is part of my final university project.
This was my first time using a trim sheet- to fit the rest of my game, I kept it as 2D. I painted the wood and glass in Krita, leaving a section for the metal part of the chest to be textured in Substance Painter straight on the model. The rest of the assets were hand-painted in Substance Painter.
For the cauldron VFX, I attempted using Houdini and Blender, but in the end, Unreal's Niagara system was the easiest to use and implement in the project. I used a combination of sprite and mesh emitters, creating custom sprites in Krita for the smoke and fire.
A big inspiration for the layout was Rio Gerardino's 'A Witch's Lair' : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/KrQmEo