Fable Station 3D model (Vket 2024 Summer)

While the Kemono Cafe didn't get a booth at Virtual Market this year, we did also apply for a community booth. The main difference between the community booth and a regular one is that the community version is geared more to advertising groups of people versus selling items.

A special feature of these community booths is that they are a lot more generous with how much you can use. The booths are larger, you get more more texture space, get special event promotion, etc. This works great for us, since its exactly what we are looking for to advertise the Cafe.

Anyway!

I initially planned on making the booth a 3 part experience split into the Cafe proper, the Escapade, and the Station. There were some ideas of how people would move from one section to the other, which included holographic presentations, videos and special shaders that would allow you to experience a train ride, but a big time crunch kept me from being able to achieve the vision. Still, we were able to exhibit, and the following posts will showcase the progress on the booth and how it fared during the convention itself.

So! Fable station! We see this building show up early in Sandy's story. Initially modeled in Sketchup, this building was based on a small railway station of a Brazilian town called Sao Lourenco. For the booth however, I recreated the model in blender, and altered the dimensions in order for it to fit into the space and allow enough room for the train.

The interior is quite spacious, and was supposed to contain one or two rooms, allowing visitors to watch a holographic presentation by Kona and Sandy as they talked about the cafe and guided you to the Escapade for a special train ride.

I'll post more pictures and in game screenshots soon!