Diablo 3 Insipired Mini Environment

skylebones

I am a huge Diablo 3 fan and play a lot. Here is a bit of Diablo 3 inspired art. Took about 2 weeks. First Personal environment art I've done in a while, really happy with the way it turned out. Rendered in Marmoset.



Here is a model sheet.




And the texture sheet.

vickgaza

I love it , looks awesome. DId u bake any ao from high poly objects or is all hand painted onto the low poly without any high poly landmarks ?

Awesome awesomejob !

praetus

This is really cool. The only thing I can see right off is that some of your textures lack a certain punch. Some of the values tend to blend together. I've attached a .gif with some changes to the grayscale to illustrate what I mean exactly. Some of the whites in the image got a little blown out, so I wouldn't go that far, but the rocks, bell, and altar it makes some amount of sense. Hopefully it will help.

Jeff Parrott

I like the idea a lot.

The textures all read as the same material. I would push the highlights tighter and more on the metals. Add some bounce color. All the texture are rather monotone at the moment.

The snow needs more contrast and some spots of highlights pulling through.

Some of the values are off on things (alter grey metal blend in with the wall, etc). I would separate the values a bit more.

Add more drop shadow on the pillars under the tusks and underneath the bell.

BradMyers82

really well done! Would be cool to see you incorporate some of the ideas Jeff had to see how much it would really benifit, but as is I love it!

RogerP

really nice

tottot

Killer stuff man, was this the D3 art test? You nailed it if so! Are those the final texture resolutions??

Gannon

To add to what Jeff said, you need some subtle Hue shifts to break up the assets and help to make them pop a but more. A lot of the occlusion could benefit from this. Pick areas like in the stone and shift it a little and it will bring a lot more life to the environment. Great job otherwise.

*edit*

Quick Paint over gif.

skylebones

Thanks so much for the feedback, paintovers, and gifs! I really appreciate it. I usually have a tendency to push my contrast so much that it ruins the focal point, so I made an effort in this one to subdue it, maybe too much it sounds. I already started my next mini environment, but now I'm aching to go back and make some changes. Guess I better hurry and finish it.

rollin

super nice stuff!! keep going ..

It's mostly tweaking some bits and pieces to push it a bit more.
Will watch this!

Di$array

Always love seeing your work Sky and your old tutorials on painting wood and stone helped me a ton so thanks. Any chance of a metal one some time? *wink wink nudge nudge*

Yeah looking at Gannon's paint over the occlusion really adds to the piece and helps the viewers eye up the steps to the centre piece.

skylebones

I'd love to do more tutorials. And even revisit the stone and wood one. I did those when I first got started in hand painted textures and have found a lot of little tricks to make things easier and faster since then. I get asked to do metal a lot actually, maybe it's time I do one. Good to know they helped!

D4V1DC

Love this good work, what is the size of the final textures?

minorthreat

Wow, looking amazing!

Toskineuro

Amazing work!
I love hand painted stuff.

some3dguy

Thats outstanding! Great work!
Looking at the paintover by Gannon, I would not hue-shift to a warm color like brown. After all it seems to be snowy cold there, so I'd shift to something cooler, turquoise maybe?




Other than that I like it a whole lot. Keep it up!

Regards,

some


*edit: changed the opacity of the turqoise color in my paintover to be a bit stronger.

Gannon

^ I second this.

skylebones

Thats an excellent suggestion, I like that. Thank you very much.

mats effect

Really nice work I like it a lot. I think what @some3dguy showed in his paint over would push it even more

nksilver5

Nice work ! The render is really nice, love the handpainted style.

Maybe add some orange/red near the flame ? At the moment the side of the stairs doesn't seem to benefit from the light source, but maybe it is just me

ExcessiveZero

I hate the style but I love the scene, I feel so conflicted.

Blizz_kathyz

Hi Skye, it was great seeing your work on Polycount's Weekly Recap, Congrats!

skylebones

Oh awesome! Didn't realize it made the weekly recap. Some really great stuff there.