[UDK] Long Abandoned City Street
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Final Scene:
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This portfolio project I started about a month ago, heavily inspired by the environments in The Last of Us. I'm still a pretty new environment artist, and this is only my second project in UDK. I've been posting a few images in the WAYWO thread, but I thought I could use some more detailed feedback and it probably deserves its own thread now.
Besides being heavily visually inspired by The Last of Us, my workflow in this piece is also heavily inspired by Naughty Dog's style. I wanted to personally make as many of the textures by hand as possible, relying on photo resources only rarely. The tiled texture sets for the main space are made in Zbrush, and this has been my first real try using Zbrush's systems for tiled output, so I think the results turned out alright.
Current screenshots (Still WIP of course):
I'll try and get up some pictures of texture sets later today as well.
Original Post:
This portfolio project I started about a month ago, heavily inspired by the environments in The Last of Us. I'm still a pretty new environment artist, and this is only my second project in UDK. I've been posting a few images in the WAYWO thread, but I thought I could use some more detailed feedback and it probably deserves its own thread now.
Besides being heavily visually inspired by The Last of Us, my workflow in this piece is also heavily inspired by Naughty Dog's style. I wanted to personally make as many of the textures by hand as possible, relying on photo resources only rarely. The tiled texture sets for the main space are made in Zbrush, and this has been my first real try using Zbrush's systems for tiled output, so I think the results turned out alright.
Current screenshots (Still WIP of course):
I'll try and get up some pictures of texture sets later today as well.
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I guess I should have panned up a bit.
The slabs on the street are from this bit of damage, caused by an explosion inside the building. I guess I could have gone further with scene-wide structural damage, but this was really my first try building modular sets for buildings, so I didn't want to be too ambitious with damaging them.
Otherwise it's very atmospheric - I like it a lot.
Yeah, that's an aspect I'm thinking of going further with. I was thinking I could possibly do a vertex blending effect with both rust and moss. On top of properly aging the cars, it could also differentiate them some more by varying the ways I paint them.
Anyway, here's a look at some of my tiled texture sets, all made in Zbrush.
Have you tried adding a different colored fog? Could be just me but the overall scene is very yellow and green. Maybe play around with some of the stock LUT's and see what you can come up with.
I'm digging your Zbrush tiles, whats the process you used for creating them? I've been trying to build some good tiling textures myself in zbrush but always have problems.
I've spent a ton of time trying to figure out how my color scheme should flow. Right now I have bright white fogginess in the distance with deeper yellow/orange lighting in the immediate area.
Still, your comment got me thinking, and I ended up going back through my inspiration folder that I haven't looked at since a lot earlier in this project. Came across these concept images from The Last of Us.
Firstly, it's just kind of surprising to me how I really ended up emulating the exact structure and style here in terms of my modeling and texturing. Still, it also makes me see the difference in the qualities of my lighting and theirs. I'm thinking I may go through some of it again, so thanks for drawing my attention to that aspect.
As for my Zbrush tiling work, I got started with that by following this tutorial:
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Really powerful workflow and he explains it pretty well.
I am really digging your damaged tarmac texture, did you used procedural noise or brushwork?... Would you mind sharing how you did it and maybe a closeup of the texture in-engine, that bumpiness is looking nice.
Regarding the environment, I think it's looking nice, maybe a little too busy. I think you should differentiate more your dominant colours, right now you got too much brown/orange scattered on top of everything
Also I am not convinced about the trees you got in the scene. To me the trunks are too gigantic currently, I would revise the proportions.
Remember, you have assets and things already done that you can use instead of adding and making more. so just use that to your advantage.
And I put together a few more looks at my tiled texture sets:
Just something I noticed on your last tile texture is that you can see the sculpt marks, and it does not look like normal wate.
Yeah, some of my textures were definitely rush jobs. I still tried to make the effort to get high quality sets for tiling elements, but on certain textures I was willing to blow past high frequency sculpting detail to meet my deadline. Really, this whole project was a rush job, so I'm surprised it turned out as well as it did.
Great job on everything else though.
I say you did a pretty great job though! Your lighting and attention to detail is especially impressive. Keep it up, I can't wait to see more work.
Huh, I go to SCAD (about to start my second year in the fall), but I've definitely been out for summer all while working on this project. Do you mean you saw work from The Last of Us at some point, or is someone literally showing off my work while I'm not around?