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Looks pretty good Rennjan.  could prolly add more movement (feet and hands) but that depends on what style you are working in.

some concept stuff for my next game. in space with guns.

WIP#2 - Basic setup in UE4, trim sheet and unique texture

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my second update of the project

Blockout Set Up in UE4:

During the past week, I've imported all my blockout pieces in UE4 using grid system, setup the basic lighting and working environment, have everything proper named and organised in folders, and here're some shots after that.



There were some light leaking in my scene at first, then I made a light blocker to add to the outside to cover all my walls, floors & ceilings, it's a very simple block with only certain faces cut out if you have windows in your scene. This is the easiest way to solve the light leaks since using two-sided materials or have the mesh with double sides will cause more draw calls.

Trim sheet:

After finishing setting up the blockout in unreal, I started planning my trim sheet. I used my Asset list I've created in the first week and divided my textures into trims, tile-able, unique, and hybrid textures. And then mark them up in my scene.

To build my trims, I first used photoshop 10x10 grid guide layout to divide them up, then export it into Maya, turn on the same 10x10 grid, and start building up each trim mesh on top of my reference image.

After I have the general blockout of my trim sheet mesh, I did some tests on my assets before polish them just to see how they will work on actually models. For example when I applied the wooden panel trim on my the outside part of my bar counter models, with the normal map it still looks quite flat so I know I need to extrude that part of the mesh to give it more shape later on.

Besides that, my task next week for the trim sheet will be bringing it to ZBrush and add more ornament details using alpha brush, and sculpt some wear and damages onto it. 

A little preview of my work in progress trim sheet this week.

High-poly mesh for unique assets:

For the other assets that use unique textures, I went for the the normal high-poly to low-poly workflow, this week's task was to model as many as high-poly meshes as we can so I choose to firstly create the chairs and tables since they take up the most space in my scene.

I modelled my high-poly meshes in Maya, again my next step is to bring them into ZBrush to sculpt some detailed worn and damages.

In the meantime I keep updating my timeline and to do list just to get organised.

What's next?

For the next week, I'll keep polishing my trim sheet, after I finalise it I'll bake it properly and do more test on my other modular assets. In the meantime I'll do the ZBrush pass on my unique meshes, and after that start to optimise them into low-poly meshes, setup uv and bake them in Marmoset.

Again, thanks for reading my blog and feel free to let me know your opinions about my work so I can improve them in the future! See you next week!

You can also view more detailed update on my art station blog: 

My Artstation:  artstation.com/hsclaratan

@ gfelton, Pshyco Thanks guys!

Latest promo video captures in engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5GGWnYy5A

Hi, just curious: how long has it been?
I've seen you post here a couple of times asking for the same thing and i believe the consensus was that you need to improve. Now you come back with a few more works but have you improved? How? In what way?
I sense a lot of frustration and i understand, really i do, but being frustrated and desperate doesnt get you hired. In fact, it will probably prevent you from getting that much needed commentary on your portfolio.
Nevertheless, looking at your artstation page i see OK-ish work, not bad but not great either. The problem is that this industry expects great and above-great work. Even tho most games have sub par assets for various reasons (performance limitations, crunch time for the deadline, cheap outsourcing work, etc) the companies still expect you to have a stellar portfolio with works that meet the "standard". This standard is of course set by the best in the industry and at the moment is very high. So the logic around that is... tricky. But it is what it is and i digress.
As a suggestion i would advise you to start thinking more about what it is that you are doing, the object that you are creating and really understand the shape and properties of it. It seems that you have mostly simple shapes with basic materials. Another thing you should try is to do an environment, nothing big, maybe a diorama or a small scene, maybe something organic.
And really take your time with the models and textures dont rush through it just to say you did it.

Continue working on this project

AR 15 with Tactical Guidance System check out my blog as well https://www.artstation.com/rav3nway/blog/33Zo/f-2215-thunder-raven-ar15-tgs

I think about small tombs around the main tomb entrance (like a concept) and I try to make them using decals with POM. 
In my opinion, a good result comes out. And that saves me from sculpting extra cliffs modules with tombs.