I started this project in UE4 back in 2017ish, and decided to finally finish this dang thing in 2021. I also used this project to play around with the UE5 Lumen lighting system. I thought it'd be really fun to make something that combined "clean" science fiction and lots of organic objects, and then a theme emerged of "oh, what if this is like a museum of all the cool plants of Earth that have gone extinct in the future?". I also had some fun adding little storytelling elements like spilled coffee and forgotten brochures etc, because hey people are messy! I made the weeping willow and the 3 tropical plants but the other trees, ferns, and flowers were from a Marketplace asset pack.
Inspired by concept art by Ryan Woodhouse: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/PDNz1