Zelda BOTW Environnement (WIP)

HashBrownHamish

Hey I'm working on an environment based on a fan art piece from Jeremy Fenske

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nLY0K

I'm currently a good way into the project, I'm still trying to make my trees not look awful, more vines and such as seen in the concept art, and finishing off the "hero" assets those being the guardian the cathedral and the broken column.

Also, I can't seem to find a way to transfer the normals from a half sphere to my tree branch cards in 3ds max, I'm using 2018 and I haven't found a script that works with this version

All critique and comments are welcome this is my first full-blown environment ^^
(PS: where can I upload high res pics? Imgur seems to cap at 1207x689)

*LATEST*


Here are some pics



Little gif of the environment ^^ 
https://i.gyazo.com/413061570a0a258331be3c8f73449f19.mp4

Ashervisalis

Its looking great! The grass looks a little square. If you could add some variation to it and make the line cards less noticeable, it would look a bit better.

HashBrownHamish

Update: worked on the guardian, the cathedral and added some vines and foliage

lotet

This is beautiful, great start!

HashBrownHamish

Update: Made a tileable bark texture in substance designer and trying it out for the first time. I'm stuck on improving water making the entrance to the cathedral darker and improving the tree crowns

HashBrownHamish

Reworked the lighting which seemed way off (i was working on this in the evening with flux on ... ), getting close to finishing up I think

wormo

nice, you're almost there. I think the main thing I notice now that seems lacking is adding some vines or a little more variation to the bark on the trees. really awesome so far though.

lotet

I feel the grass and vegetation isnt really holding up that close to the camera, other then that its looking pretty good.

almighty_gir

One of the key things you're missing is the tone shift from blue/cold foreground to green/warm distance. You can probably fake this by using a post process that multiplies the screen color by a blue tone based on scene depth, should be fairly easy to do.

HashBrownHamish

Thanks for the comments ^^ I did notice the tonal shift from the cold shaded areas to the warmer sun lighten areas. I'm going to have a look towards producing that effect.
As for the vegetation i'm going to do photoshop pass when the atlas is finalized