Buzludzha Monument - UDK Environment

Superliminal

Hey everyone! First post! After a year of lurking, I feel like I finally have something that's post worthy. Here's an environment I've been working on for the past couple of months during my final year in school. My goal for this one was to get comfortable in Zbrush and speed up my workflow. At this point I'm calling it done so I can move onto something new.

It's an abandoned political conference hall at the top of a mountain in Bulgaria. It was looking a little boring as is, so I decided to put a big tree in the middle to make it interesting to look at. Here's the google maps panorama of the actual monument. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.735983,25.393852,3a,75y,284.84h,90t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1srHkICVdYx0YAAAAGOtZ2vQ!2e0!3e11

Critique and feedback would be much appreciated!

Thanks for all the inspiring and beautiful work, everyone!









All textures are 1k diffuse, spec, normal, and height.

E.Coe

Looks really good man. I would love to see a video fly through to feel the space more. I have to say though that the English graffiti irks me a bit. It would be better to see it in Russian. Your textures look fantastic, I am jealous. Can you add a shot of the roof thingy in engine? Or does the tree Block it. All in all good job amigo.

E.Coe

Oh and you should show you bark texture, I am interested to see it.

Superliminal

I had the center piece in before I had the idea of putting the tree in. Unfortunately, the tree conceals it entirely. This is literally the best view you can get of it from the floor. Regarding the bark texture, I resorted to throwing a CG texture into crazybump, then taking the heightmap into zbrush so I can bake directional light into my diffuse. Attemting to sculpt bark is the most difficult thing iv'e ever done O.O

SirSpangles

yeeaaa! nice man, I agree with Ev you should do a fly-through, that would be a nice touch. I didn't realize this was supposed to be in Russia, so yea get that English outta there, otherwise man well done.

Superliminal

Why there's so much English graffiti in this place is beyond me. According to wiki, English isnt in the top 3 spoken languages in Bulgaria.

SirSpangles

okkaaay

E.Coe

English still looks like shit. damn hipsters barfing on abandoned russian beauty

Superliminal

Your mustache is the most hipster thing I've seen in my life.

Superliminal

Here's the link to the fly through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PGxUsFOQQw&feature=youtu.be