Inside the Labs: My R&D Workshop
Deck: I’ve opened a Labs page on my site, a public research-and-development workspace where I prototype worlds, test tools, and document reproducible workflows across digital arts and multimedia entertainment.
🔬 What the Labs are
The Labs are where I build in the open. You’ll find experiments, devlogs, case studies, and production notes across worldbuilding, publishing, comics, games, films, music, merchandise, apparel, and technologies, focused on process over hype. Every post aims to be a “show your work” breakdown that others can follow, adapt, and improve.
🗂️ How the page is organized
In each Lab section, you’ll see tables with compact snapshots of active projects with four columns:
- Project. What I’m building.
- Project Description & Versions. The current scope and iteration history.
- Tools & Technologies. The exact stack used.
- Work Done. A running log of concrete steps and milestones.
From there, deep-dive posts on the Atlantica Multimedia Labs website expand on methods, references, and short videos.
🗺️ What I’m working on right now
- 🌎 Atlantica Continent Map: An ancient-era continental layout for the Atlantica Universe, designed in Photoshop and hand-built cartography. I’m documenting projection choices, coastline logic, and versioned drafts as the design tightens.
- 🏝️ Atlantica Islands Map: A hidden archipelago at the southwestern end of the Bermuda Triangle, grown from a simple silhouette into a playable terrain. You’ll see Photoshop heightmaps, custom terrain sculpting, and Unreal Engine 5 flyovers to evaluate scale, slopes, and shorelines.
📓 What you’ll get from following
- Transparent method notes. Exactly how and why choices are made, so results are reproducible.
- Workflow-first posts. I focus on practical pipelines with step-by-step workflows you can reproduce.
- Versioned progress. Iterations you can compare at a glance, from a 2D sketch to in-engine 3D footage.
- Cross-discipline insight. Techniques that transfer between writing, art, design, and engineering.
🚀 Start exploring
Visit the page here: rod.burutsa.com/labs.
If you enjoy behind-the-scenes worldbuilding, production craft, and the nuts-and-bolts of making ideas real, bookmark it. I’ll keep shipping updates as projects evolve.