[UE4] The Mummy Tomb, 3 week project.

rgbeard · Nov 2016

Here is the final result:

More at the end of the thread ((:.

First week done!

Inspired by The Mummy (1999) and the art of Rise of the Tomb Raider I have 3 weeks to do this environment for a school assignment called "advanced production project".

The project is halftime so its more like 1.5 work weeks.

This weeks goals where to get the scale and proportions right in maya and make modular assets.

Also getting it all into Unreal Engine 4, blocked it out with some rough lighting.

Next week is high poly, baking and starting with textures.

Image in the upper right is screenshot from Unreal and the rest are paint overs to find the lighting, mood and colors.

Screenshots from UE4

For more images look at my blog. I will keep updating the progress here as well.

Feedback is always appreciated! ((:

rgbeard · Nov 2016

A fast update on the progression of the tomb.

I did high/lowpoly and baked it out for a rock, pillar and altar.

Need to redo the altar but I can start to see whats needs more attention and what parts that wont.

Still trying out some different lighting, this lighting is a bit to bright.

RustySpannerz · Nov 2016

Great start! Really like your paintovers so I have no doubt you'll be able to set the mood quite easily.

rgbeard · Nov 2016

Thank you @RustySpannerz. I hope to learn how create that mood in Unreal during this project.

macoll · Nov 2016

Ninja draw Skillz !!
I am a bit curious how you gonna choose for the albedos of your meshes with these color schemes ( i mean the yellow-green-ish lighting)
I will follow this great work

Telerak · Nov 2016

Those first image overlays look great, I'm interested in learning how to do concept like that, is there a specific place you learned how to do it? Or, anything I should search for (tutorial-wise) to learn?

rgbeard · Nov 2016

@macoll ty (: . The albedo will probably be towards gray and yellows and then I will light with blue to get more greens. But not really sure, will have to experiment after the baking of highpolys are done.

@Telerak Thank you! With the 3d blockout as background I use a lot of multiply layers to try different shadow shapes and then colordodge with little color to light things. Then photobasing to get textures/more idees and then overpaint that on one layer where I balance it out. I would recommend checking out Titus Lunters tutorials on youtube and read about his workflow. He has a lot of nice artists and art resources to check out as well.

rgbeard · Nov 2016

Week 2 done!

The assets that are left on highpoly are: floor, floor trim, metal chains, flame holders.
Then texturing everything giving it wear and tear. Then some spider web and piles of sand (might do the sand as a terrain material and sculpt piles on the floor.)

So next week I will finnish with material deffinition and variation. Lighting and final baking of it. Vertex paint for sand on all objekts and maybe and upvector shader for the sand as well.
Story telling elemets and atmosphere and add things as i go to make it cohesive.

Feedback is appreciated.

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rgbeard · Nov 2016

Here it is, 3 weeks later.
I learned a lot from this project, like thinking more about texel density earlier and locking down cameras for beauty shots during the blockout to be able to focus on the right details and composition elements.

I had a lot of nice feedback from great past students of the school. Thank you!

Next week its on to a new project.

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Nuclear Angel · Nov 2016

Hey it turned out really good, too bad that you never got the centerpiece presented with proper lighting. As you clearly focused on the entrance to the cave. But as it was done in 3 weeks that seemed to have been a good call!

rgbeard · Nov 2016

@Nuclear Angel Thank you! Yeah I coulden't find a good way to get it in. The enterence look more interesting as I started to light the scene. So I reworked the cameras and started to work from there.

RustySpannerz · Nov 2016

Really nicely lit! Good job!

rgbeard · Nov 2016

Thank you @RustySpannerz ! I will make some changes on the values, so its more instantly readable. It got a little to dark (need to think more about gamma on diffirent monitors before posting final imange).

Maxilator · Nov 2016

Looks really good, I'm not super keen on the green lighting, nothing wrong with giving it color variance but it's a bit too saturated imo, I can't help but feel like it's a movie set or something with that color.

rgbeard · Nov 2016

@Maxilator Thank you! Yeah its a bit too much of the same. I would like it to be more organic and old.

rgbeard · Nov 2016

I wanted the images to have a better read so I have been working on them a bit today. Tell me what you think.

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Nuclear Angel · Nov 2016

It is hard to believe it is the same scene, it is much better now! I think though that there are too many glossy surfaces as it is now. If you are going for a damp feeling then you are on the right track, but if not I think you should tweak the roughness a bit in some areas.

rgbeard · Nov 2016

Ty! @Nuclear Angel

macoll · Nov 2016

Nuclear Angel said:

I think you should tweak the roughness a bit in some areas.

Agree with that

Stellar mood ! I love it

OctOstera · Nov 2016

Looking really nice man! Very nice to see the progress here. I´d work a little bit more on composition tho. Have you chosen what your cameras will be?

Great work!

rgbeard · Nov 2016

@macoll Thank you! Yeah the roughness and some of the normals could absolutely be improved!
@octostra Thx (: . Yeah the cameras where set a bit late but now when the 3 weeks are over I used what I had. What would you have liked to see more of? Always nice to get some more opinions on what I could have improved.

Add3r · Nov 2016

NAILED the mood. Really nice edits on the renders. No critiques on a lighting or composition standpoint, I think this is a really great final result that you should be very happy with.

Sharur · Nov 2016

@rgbeard

Nicely done. For some reason, PBR tends to look good when it's glossy. Just check out the Subway scene from UE4 demo package. Remove the glossiness from there and it looks worse. So I think this turned out pretty well. Maybe turn in down just a bit.

rgbeard · Nov 2016

@Add3r Thank you!
@Sharur Thx! Yeah, I had some difficulties with it. Did some material instances where I started to tweak the values a little. But I would have like it to transfer straight from substance painter.

Loutrattitude · Nov 2016

Really nice mood, it's a shame the stairs are really simple compared to the rest of your scene, it drag down your scene in my opinion, being in the midle of your screens.