First post of a lurker

RyoClick

Hey everyone,

This is my first post here, I've been lurking this forum for a while ( spend my lunch time on it too ) and I decided to register a few months ago. I finally have something to post in here so I'm happy to finally step out of the darkness. 

I have a full time job as a tester in Tokyo and I have always been interested in 3D. Recently, I've realized that I love the process of creating art and especially 3D. Sometimes I get excited and passionate at watching a nice curve modeled on a sculpt or on a hard surface, a crisp texture on a wall or a beautiful lighting.

A few months back I spend a bit of money to buy a PC and decided to put my efforts in learning more about creating environments and other techniques. Now once I get home after a day of work I jump on the computer to study and try to improve my skills in 3d. In order to keep the motivation (...can be hard sometimes) I keep visiting this forum, ArtStation, and I listen to game dev podcasts or CG podcasts in the morning when I'm going to work that way I stay motivated and hungry.

Anyway, I just finished a small scene, and since I don't know much people that could give some feedback or advice on this little scene, if some of you guys could give a bit of feedback on what is the weak points of my scene so I can work and study more on that it will be super greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

The scene is rendered in marmoset 2 :







I used Maya, and the Substance suite. Most of the materials were made by me except for the ground. 

Ashervisalis

The ground is definitely the weakest thing here. Considering that's the only thing not made by you, that's pretty cool! I'd put some time and effort into some new ground.

RyoClick

Hey man, thanks for that. I'll start working on some substance for the ground cheers  

RyoClick

Worked on a substance for the ground but not satisfied with the result, it won't match the scene 

RustySpannerz

Despite not suiting the scene it still is a really nice material! 

RyoClick

Hey thanks, I learned from algorithmic tutorials . I'm going to try other colors to see the result. 

RyoClick

Added a mud texture on top, changed the colors of the rocks and painted mask painted the rocks coming out of the mud ins substance painter to break the patterns.
Screen in substance designer:

Screen inside marmoset:

RustySpannerz

Not sure if you've tackled the lighting yet, but good lighting would really sell this better!

RyoClick

No I actually haven't, I tried to search for some tutorials of lighting in Marmoset but it seems there is not much you can do... what do you use for lighting up a small environment in marmoset?