WIP - Flying Islands

Brauni

Hi guys,

I planed to do my first complete Scene for my portfolio.

The Idea: flying Islands between the clouds on the one side and stair to the hell on the other side.
It shall get a fantasy/mystery touch with runic stones a portal to the bright and a portal to the dark side.
The bright side will be dominated by the colours blue green and violet and the dark side by red brown black.

My first target is to get the middle Island and the bright side. It will be connected by hanging wood bridges and on one of the 3 or 4 islands should be a heaven portal on the others crazy trees and plants like mushrooms gras and so on.

I startet by sketching just a very short map overview.
Now I will start concept out some Stone formation to use for my islands.

I'm not extremly practiced with udk and Ce3 but I will try to learn to use one of this Engines better. Maybe there are some opinions about them.

Here I got my Asset list to complete:

Islands (small, and big middle Island)
chains
bridges
gras set
tree set
fantasy plant set
stone set
tiles for the ways
portal
textures ofr gras and stone
skytex




two very fast sketches to show u my mind

first island concept i did in zbrush. Maybe a bit to small and the texture colour isnt that great.


I will post new things as far as I got new ones.

I would be glad to get some feedback, critics, ideas and maybe some tips and tricks of you!

Thank you very much
greets Brauni

jackalope

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Brauni

Ah ok, thank you! didnt notice..

Brauni

At the moment I'm doing a wooden bridge.
This takes some time, because i have no practice with wood structures. The question for me now is: Is one plank enough and the viewer doesnt see that the bridge has always the same instanced plank or do i have to do more different pieces?

Brauni

The wooden Bridge highpoly is finished:




I would just like to add some ivy hanging down from the ropes. I just dont know how to do this. Will search this days the net for it.

Macattackk

wood slats look manufactured. id create more depth variation in the grooves and make the worn edges tie into the rest of it more organically.

Brauni

You are right. I tried about 5 Planks.. but its always look flat. Does anybody know a good tutorial for it or what brushes to take? i used trim and damstandard.

Brauni

I've created some new planks now.