Street Corner Environment

shaya · Jan 2018

Happy New Year! This is an environment that I have been working on for the past two months. Most of the textures are made in Substance Painter/Designer and it's assembled in UE4. Looking for any and all critques, but I'm especially interested in comments on lighting since it's not something I have thought about before.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/79/52fvwavnziqh.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/5h/wyctl84j3ngs.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/o9/3s7nf7y7d8ip.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/eh/epac9d1vtd43.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/m9/l5x4df2iyjef.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/lw/ge0qjjr1ik6f.png

Based on concept art by Rowena Wang: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/68Bn

Ashervisalis · Jan 2018

I like the mood you've made! I think you need to work on materials. Spend some more time in Substance Designer, and focusing on applying the materials/texturing.

artrynk · Jan 2018

Without light ,materials and textures did not work )))

izaakb · Jan 2018

I think the textures need a little more variety. There's basically one texture covering an entire piece without that variation. Variation will make it a lot more interesting. I think there needs to be more purposeful lighting. Lighting can take a long time to figure out how you want it to look, it takes exploration, keep at it!

It seems like this is supposed to be a grungy building, I might suggest making the letters broken/faded/grunged way more. There's also combining a few too many eras in one scene in my opinion. I can't tell if it's old fashioned or new. I think this should be immediately clear on the first read. Unless you're going for futuristic old school, then I think there needs to be more assets to show that, like pipes on the side of the building, cool looking chimneys, and other tech.

shaya · Jan 2018

Thanks for the comments.

I'm still reworking textures, but I've tried reworking alot of the lighting. Am I on the right track?

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/3i/yukpfq4cfpr3.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/em/h0n2a5qszu78.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ot/xg30517y0awf.png

Yura_Vorobiev · Jan 2018

Light is super dark. I would suggest you to watch unreal lighting academy on youtube, it's amazing and very helpful

izaakb · Jan 2018

Yeah it's still too dark, sorry dude. There needs to be either more ambient lighting or your objects need to emit light. Think about your favorite video games. How do they do their lighting. Another thing to remember is, depending on your desktop, it might be WAY brighter than other peoples (like Macs tend to be brighter than anything else from my experience)

Some key points that can help your direction - what type of mood are you going for? Somber? Mysterious? Pleasant? Sad? Lighting can really push these moods. And it's also what video games are going to be looking for. Can you express the mood through the lighting. Look at paintings and concept paintings to help give ideas on what you'd like to express. In my opinion, lighting adds a whole level of complexity to the final rendering of a piece and how awesome it looks.

Tag me if you'd like more feedback!

David-J · Jan 2018

I would go back to working on your textures and materials and stop working with ligthing. Use some reference for your materials. The scales and how they look are all over the place. Fix that and then worry about lighting.

shaya · Jan 2018

Reworked a lot of textures as well as changed the lighting. I haven't watched that lighting tutorial yet that someone recomended, but I wanted to get see if I was on the right track texture-wise. Again, would love all comments/critques.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/19/wttizaqkritm.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/he/kukh4azo7syr.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/mk/9e08k364lr56.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/wx/qa090cb4udyz.png

shaya · Jan 2018

@David-J
Do the scales look correct now? More consistent?

Street Corner Environment

Replies