Lowpoly environment [School assignment]

modebloggen

Hey guys, first time poster here.

Though I'd share my progress on our laters assignment for school, a low poly (2500 tris) environment.

My idea is to make a small canyon with a few trees and bushes, and a simple river/pond. I'm heavily influenced, borderline ripoff, by this guy: http://vimeo.com/28959265 , and I'm trying to imitate his style to a certain degree.

This is what I've managed to do thus far, ~3 hours of work, concept and modelling.

Any and all feedback is extremely appreciated!

Brian "Panda" Choi

How much are you gonna texture? It seems from the video a lot of the "awe" came from the intensive lighting work and maybe shader adjustments in w/e engine they were in.

rogueNoodle

Another artist with a similar style that you may be interested in is Erwin Kho - his stuff isn't real-time, but you may be able to get some ideas from it, particularly in his use of (I assume) vertex colouring to add interest and detail.

modebloggen

JadeEyePanda: Well, we have a texture limit of 512x512, but I think I might be going with just a black and white diffuse map, and then add the colours in UDK. The deadline is sunday, so I'll have plenty of time to play around with shaders during the week!=)

rogueNoodle: Yeah, wow, thanks for the tip! His stuff was pretty neat. Since we have to present the final product in a game engine, it'll have to be real-time. But yes, you are right about the vertex colouring! Thanks for answering=)


EDIT: I will add a few cloud meshes attached with string, that way I think I can get away with making a square skydome and make pretend its the inside of a box.

modebloggen

Quick update:
With a little help I've managed to import the scene into UDK, and this is how it looks as of now. The light is done in haste and not very planned, but this is what I've got. All materials were created in UDK as well. Any tips to improve the scene, helpful links etc are greatly appreciated!

(2493 tris, for the interested)

modebloggen

Last update, im basically finished (thought its still pretty unpolished).
Few pictures and a flythrough video of the final result:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZniCV4mDXo"]LowPoly Environment - YouTube[/ame]

Thanks for viewing my thread!