(UE 4 ) underwater facility (Artstation Challenge)

shubham kumar

Hey guys i have participated in Artstation's beneath the waves challenge  i will post W.I.P's here too it will be great if you guys give me feedback's. 

concept from Leo Brynielsson

https://www.artstation.com/contests/beneath-the-waves/challenges/32/submissions/24131?sorting=latest

my Artstation Challange thread- http://https//www.artstation.com/contests/beneath-the-waves/challenges/37/submissions/25199?sorting=latest  

shubham kumar

Main Building Exterior blocking almost done

i will add other parts while creating full highpoly .also in blocking stage i am chamfering edges to get smooth look and some places i used turbosmooth to get even more smoother look  .  

i did some minor changes which are not visible in concept .

Now i will proceed to terrain and rocks blocking , Then next will be background building  and main building interior . 

shubham kumar

Scene blocking done

cliff are rough for now i will tweak them later . 

now i will start working on modular parts of main building then interior .

shubham kumar

Some more progress

Main building Baking is done so for a change i decided to work on cliffs then i will remesh them and project on detailed sculpt to get back shapes and then use them in scene upon that i will use tilable textures and vertex paint them . i am little confused about this workflow if you guys have any idea's and feedback's it will be really helpful. 

shubham kumar

some scanned rocks

Yesterday my brother was cleaning fish tank so he took out all the rocks , i decided to attempt photogrammetry and use them in scene , Maybe place plants inside and around them to blend with environment . This is just a rough version i will sculpt on top of it and then bake and also tweak albedo a little bit . 

shubham kumar

some tilable textures

Some of the materials i created for the scene. I am not good at substance designer so i searched some good tilable textures and then took them to bitmap2material  and extracted Height , Normal and base color then i took them to substance designer and did further details and i have changed albedo a lot .

GROUND MOSS FLOOR


GROUND ROCKY


CLIFFROCK


SOME GRAPHS , THEY ARE REALLY SIMPLE I CREATED MY OWN MOSS SHAPE THEN BLENDED ON TOP OF HEIGHT .


Texture's i used 

Krystian_Zem

Thats a very ambitious project you got there. Thanks for showing your processes I'm finding it very helpful. I'm a Substance designer noob myself and its always helpful to see different workflows. I'm actually quite impressed with your materials for someone who calls himself bad at a program. I know artstation challanges are quite difficult and I'm hoping im not being too impolite for asking a question. Would you mind telling me which node you used to apply the moss onto the rock? Was it just blend? I'm looking forward to seeing your progress and I wish you good luck with the challange Shubhar Kumar.

shubham kumar

Krystian_Zem said:

Thats a very ambitious project you got there. Thanks for showing your processes I'm finding it very helpful. I'm a Substance designer noob myself and its always helpful to see different workflows. I'm actually quite impressed with your materials for someone who calls himself bad at a program. I know artstation challanges are quite difficult and I'm hoping im not being too impolite for asking a question. Would you mind telling me which node you used to apply the moss onto the rock? Was it just blend? I'm looking forward to seeing your progress and I wish you good luck with the challange Shubhar Kumar.

Hi Krystain  for the moss on rock its just  used gradient map blended with texture and a mask is connected so i can get moss only in valleys. in next node i copied same gradient map with different hue and blended it with previous blend and also mask is connected for breakup  

i used curvature smooth which is connected to normal map then leveled it to get peaks and valleys mask then used them in blend node , you can blend your mask with noises to get variation . Hope you find it useful 

Krystian_Zem

@shubham kumar
Thanks for that answer its indeed very helpful I appreciate the effort too. I havent thought of using a gradient map and noises for masks before, I must try it out, in your case it worked out great.

shubham kumar

started to texture main building . This is base now i will create small chunks of moss in mesh and manually place them wherever i need 
Something like this - http://catlinseaviewsurvey.zenfolio.com/florida/h2b6c23aa#h2b6c23aa
some feedbacks on this will be really helpfull guys. 
 

shubham kumar

Received  some feedback's from my friends so i made some changes to base metal .

shubham kumar

testing in engine , also added some moss in painter 

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some texturing improvement in substance painter

i will remove the inner hole cover mesh later 

Critiques and feedback's are Welcome

shubham kumar

main building base texture done ,  later i will use vert paint and decals to make it more interesting 

i will now for a change start working on cliffs and vegetation later i will  work on interior and background building.

Also i did a quick bake with directional light with 0.5 intensity and skylight with also low intensity , but roughness of building is totally gone and albedo has turned dark . 

IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY TIPS FOR HOW DO I GET STARTED WITH LIGHTING  PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT .

shubham kumar

some plants update

shubham kumar

Slowly building the scene

Hey guys , its been a while but here is my progress , i am showing in Detail lighting mode in lit mode scene is little bit dark  due to bad lighting i will fix later .The  hardest part for me are the  rocks and blending them  so they don't look repetitive.

right now i am working on cave i have a really awesome composition in my mind  for the cave . 

i have never tried  something like this so this Artstation challenge is really challenging for me but also really exciting  . 

JuhaKeranen

Absolutely loving this! Do you have some sort of plan laid out for the progress? What's still to come?

shubham kumar

JuhaKeranen said:

Absolutely loving this! Do you have some sort of plan laid out for the progress? What's still to come?

right now i am working on the cave after that i just have to add some small items and decals , after that just texture corrections and lighting . 

shubham kumar

Need some lighting tips 

Hey guys this is just a test lighting  . I have a single spot light coming from the interior with volumetric effect i have to add more lights for sure .

i also added some bubbles .  i will check my Albedo values for darkness before that i will add some fishes .

if you guys have some tips for adding fish please let me know .  

and also please let me know if there is  some way to create  optimized  GIF from Unreal Engine  for Artstation.

shubham kumar

Some lighting progress

i took screenshots of changes i made still some tweaks are left then i will do the final production render  . 

shubham kumar

Also added some Human's inside the building

Did some humans using MakeHuman software   http://www.makehuman.org/

 and animated them using Mixamo.com                         https://www.mixamo.com/   

i tried to reduce the GIF file size as small as possible 

hope you guys like it 

shubham kumar

Final Screenshots 

This was my first time creating a environment  it was very difficult to work on the challenge while have a full time job but i also learned to Self discipline  , some times i didn't want to work at all but i had to . Btw it was really fun to be part of this 57 days journey and witness  great artists shaping beautiful environments . i am still not happy with the result but i tried my best and i think its time to let go .

some asset breakdowns