[UE4] Arctic Island Environment

KYB

Hello Everybody!

Here is environment I'd been working on in spare time, inspired by nature time-lapse videos.

The goals of project were to learn some new tools and render techniques that were implemented in last versions of Unreal Engine 4 and also to test few shaders / workflows.

Tools used for content creation - ZBrush / MODO / Substance Designer.

Environment fly-through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwlhbWhgsP8

Screenshots:




Hi-Poly renders of iceberg (done in MODO) :



You can see more hi-polys at ArtStation https://www.artstation.com/artwork/D3aDO

bigodon

outstanding rock job

Nuclear Angel

God damn gorgeous environment! Did you do the icebergs completely in modo or just the rendering? 

The Rizzler

Amazing work, very photoreal. Love the presentation style for the iceberg too 

fhurtubise

Looks stunning! What new Unreal 4 techniques did you use?

FreneticPonies

Oh that is awesome!

Urdwex

Awesome job! 

Ged

very cool work, especially on the sculpts, in ue4 you are getting some dark gray or black ambient occlusion in some parts which makes the iceberg look mucky or too solid like concrete, it would be nice if the iceberg had a more sss like feel and softer blue colours in the ao, like this sort of thing https://thebetterplan.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/iceberg.jpg

macoll

That's gorgeous, stellar work to me, gg

KYB

Thanks, guys!
 
@Nuclear Angel  - I used Zbrush for sculpting, MODO was a primary tool for everything, that's left - retopology, UVs, scene organizing, layout, export, LODs, etc.

@fhurtubise - Sequencer, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Contact Shadows, Distant field shadows/AO, planar reflections and other stuff, that's been released since 4.11. Though some techniques are not used in final scene.

@Ged - I suppose it's because of a darkish scene color / indirect lighting color in postprocessing, used to achieve some visible contrast in scene, that mostly comprised of white-color objects, but it gets even darker at near distances with SSAO and varies at different camera angles. I'll try to tweak it if I would have time, thanks !