Unearthly Challenge 2009 | Gothic Gateway

Hello everybody, we are team "Thought Meats".

We are entering the Unearthly Challenge 2009 and are planning on using Torque 3D to showcase our environment. We are doing a technological based level inside a sci-fi/gothic cathedral.
Our center piece will be a portal which has been accidentally activated by a battle recently fought inside the cathedral. The portal is ripping apart this dimension, including the cathedral, as it becomes a gateway into another. I will keep this blog updated with our work in progress, but here is also a link to our thread on GameArtisans:
www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11596

About the team members: we are all currently working as artists at Luma Arcade in South Africa,
We have been using the torque3D engine since Beta 1 so we are already comfortable using torque over other game engines.

Here are some initial concepts that we have done, we welcome and crits and comments:
This image conveys the overall mood and atmosphere we want to achieve
this is a design for the center piece portal
level layout
pillar designs
Design for a niche that will hold statues
Design for a machine that will be in the envornoment