Rise of the Tomb Raider - Art dump
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Hey Polycount! I finally got around to organizing my art work from Rise of the Tomb Raider and wanted to share it with you guys. This is my first shipped title and I learned a ton while working on the game. Everything posted here deserves many thanks to the great art team at Crystal Dynamics.
Lara's Apartment, Main Menu Version: I was responsible for almost all aspects of this scene with help from Bren Adams for art direction and lighting.
Intro Cinematic: I was responsible for background terrain, foreground terrain, and set dressing of this cinematic.
Intro Cinematic: Far background mountain is a matte painting by the concept team.
Lord Croft's Office: Responsible for almost all aspects of this scene. Worked closely with Aubrey Pullman who did an amazing job with the lighting.
Lord Croft's Office
Lord Croft's Office 2nd Variant
I was responsible for the final quality, lighting, and materials of all the collectible relics in the game. Models were outsourced, and materials were redone by me using our tileable texture library. These are a few samples of my favorites.
Mountain for intro cinematic done in World Machine.
Thanks for checking it out
Lara's Apartment, Main Menu Version: I was responsible for almost all aspects of this scene with help from Bren Adams for art direction and lighting.
Lara's Apartment Cinematic version: Lighting for these scene was done by Eidos Montreal's cinematic team.
Intro Cinematic: I was responsible for background terrain, foreground terrain, and set dressing of this cinematic.
Intro Cinematic: Far background mountain is a matte painting by the concept team.
Lord Croft's Office: Responsible for almost all aspects of this scene. Worked closely with Aubrey Pullman who did an amazing job with the lighting.
Lord Croft's Office
Lord Croft's Office 2nd Variant
Relics:
I was responsible for the final quality, lighting, and materials of all the collectible relics in the game. Models were outsourced, and materials were redone by me using our tileable texture library. These are a few samples of my favorites.
Tileable Materials:
Highpolys:
Mountain for intro cinematic done in World Machine.
Thanks for checking it out
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any chance we can see a more detailed closeup of props from the game?
Thanks guys. The biggest thing I learned is how to put together a scene from start to finish. Finding out what is important in the scene, doing a good composition around the focal point, working on lighting early on, and knowing where to spend my time are all important to a successful scene. Before I had a bad habit of getting lost in useless detail and not thinking about how everything would be tied together. I also learned a lot about the technical side of physically based materials and lighting which helps a ton with creating content and working with tech artists.
The main menu was never really planned to be Lara's apartment. It was thrown together by our art director one day by taking the cinematic scene I was working on and fitting it into the main menu level. At first it wasn't received well because it was still a little rough, but after we put some time into it and my art director fought for the idea I think it grew on people.
I didn't take any screenshots of individual props except for the relics unfortunately, which props were you interested in seeing? I can see what I can do.
Thanks
Thanks! All the relic models were great, you guys did an awesome job.
It is rendered in our engine using our material blend system.
I look forward to playing this when it comes out on PS4 next year
I sadly haven't jumped into the game yet, its on my list, though!
Was substance designer used on any of the environment texturing? Thanks!
We did not use Substance Designer for this project, just old school Zbrush and Photoshop techniques. We have transitioned to using it now though, which is great.
@BARDLER
I have a few technical art questions. You don't need to tell how it's done if you are under nda or if it's CrystalDynamics's know-how.
1. Ice walls.
They are looking really realistic. I'm guessing there is layered geometry with some opacity. What's the technique?
2. Snow specular glints
I was thinking there are just random oriented spots on the normal map with high gloss but then you should get darker spots when a light source will change direction. Also I can see some kind of perlin/gauss mask applied on the snow surface so the spots are distrubuted randomly. How it's made?
Thank you for any feedback.