Blade Runner Tribute - Unreal 4 Project

DespicablCheese

Hey guys, first post on polycount after looking at a lot of people's great work

I'm Samuel Bang, a 2nd Year student at University of Hertfordshire studying Games Art, and I've recently started a tribute to Blade Runner by doing the interview scene (in which the lighting is fantastic )

Reference:





So far, I've been able to block out the scene, produce a basic floor with pillars, and set up the initial lighting. My goal is to get the level to a standard worthy of the original film

Here's a screenie:



I think the main problem at this stage is getting believable reflections on the floor, because at long distances the screen-space reflections fade out and the lighting clips through geometry. Yet when I increase the screen-space quality, the clipping gets worse? Ill play around a bit more.

Any feedback is very welcomed, its good to see so many talented artists on here

Sam

mats effect

Have you watched Dangerous Days the film about the making of Blade Runner, is a great source of inspiration if not. Can't wait to see more of this

DespicablCheese

I haven't, but I shall! I've looked in the past for some making-ofs, but never found them. Thanks a ton, ill be watching this

DespicablCheese

Another update, added in some chairs and changed the lighting up, to get a larger variety of lights and darks. PBR is difficult to get the hang of, but I hope its getting better

DespicablCheese

Its been a while since I've updated the scene, but here's what I have now:

http://youtu.be/WIGtjdjD198

My main issue is the plant, it is double sided so the lighting is affecting it strangely. Also the table feels too plain in comparison to the marble surfaces. What do you guys think? Any crit greatly appreciated.

Bedrock

It looks like the floor broke completely, all the distortion and normal detail is missing.

DespicablCheese

I fixed a few of the assets are re-did the lighting, hopefully looking better now. I cant seem to get the sharp shadow on the left to soften out without losing the shadows coming from the blinds, ill try to look into that more.

Cube Republic

I like how the C-beams glisten in the dark Are you going to make the owl? Personally I feel it's pivotal to the whole scene.

DespicablCheese

Thats a good idea! It would be a good way to take it further, ill look into how to do that in UE4

AlecMoody

For your shadow problem- try positioning the light source somewhere closer to the window and not at infinity like the sun. I rewatched that clip and it looks like they shot in a studio without any natural light.

Area lights cast softer shadows on objects they are close to and sharper shadows on objects farther away. For your blinds and lamp that is the opposite of what you want. The factor I don't know how to replicate in game lighting is directionality (how organized the light rays are in their direction of travel) which has a big impact on shadow falloff at different distances and specular reflections.

Also consider they could be using multiple lights or that the shadows you attributed to the blinds might be something else positioned in front of a light.

fayesmith

DespicablCheese wrote: »

I haven't, but I shall! I've looked in the past for some making-ofs, but never found them. Thanks a ton, ill be watching this

I'd definitely recommend if you haven't yet, I watched it last week and it's quite interesting. However, this particular room isn't really looked at for more than a couple of minutes.
They show a few photos of the set, they're probably floating around the internet.

DarkStar

Great!