THRONE ROOM - My Big Fat Greek Throne - JustGarry and taston91

JustGarry

Hey,

I'm teaming up with taston91 and were gonna create a Greek themed scene inspired by some God of War concepts as well as others. References to greek mythology and architecture throughout. Will get a nice moodboard and blockout up soon.

Software we will be using.

3DS Max
UE4
Zbrush
Substance Designer (possibly painter depending on need)
Photoshop

Looking forward to getting started and seeing what everyone else creates.

Cheers!

Ootrick

+1 to awesome if you keep the title.
Good luck!

JustGarry

Been gathering a bunch of ref images for this scene but the main concepts we are using are these 2, the top left from god of war with the look and architecture etc, but on a large scale like the bottom right image.



I have been putting together the initial blockout in UE4 using some standard UE4 assets.





Although since I made this we have been thinking about opening the back of the throne up to a balcony, with mountains and trees in the background etc.

Feedback welcome

JustGarry

Been messing around with some Normal maps, gonna create some tillable patterns to use throughout the scene where needed, testing them with some basic materials.



and seeing how far I can push the normal maps detail wise with some reliefs.



no baked information just used a standard material and plugged in the normal and AO maps, used NDo for these, need to keep practicing with substance designer.

polytom

Looking good guys

The balcony vista sounds like a good way to go..

Impala88

nice start guys Looking forward to seeing those reliefs fleshed out.

JustGarry

Quick update, got a new blockout (not in UE4 yet) this is a more fleshed out blockout, with a new area for the throne thats a little more open etc, and includes the door at the back with balcony etc.

taston91

Hey Y'all

Just worked on some Pillar designs this weekend and came up with the high poly below. More updates to come this week.

JustGarry

Woo glad you finally got your PC man, haha! I've been working on the modular wall pieces, early WIP -

polytom

You've got a nice pace going.

Looking good

Paulod

Looking good!

Nheerph

Textures are looking epic.

whatever

What about throne facing the balcony?

JustGarry

@whatever Nice suggestion man we will definitely think about that, depends how much time we end up putting into the landscape at the back I guess. we havent really planned the 3 shots yet.

Small update on the wall piece, rescaled the window as it was too big and changed the window frame, was messing around in the engine last night but UE4 kept throwing staticmesh errors at me and couldn't fix it in time to get decent screenshots

taston91

Hey Y'all

Just a quick update; I made the top section that will rest above the pillars down the main hallway. Should be putting these in the UE4 very soon.

JustGarry

Got the walls in UE4 with some WIP materials. Think I need to add something inbetween the wall peices to break them up a little. Maybe that's where we will end up putting the lanterns instead of on the pillars.



Feedback appreciated.

hewitt96

I think the biggest thing that's missing is some kind of trim at the bottom of the pillars. Right now it looks a bit awkward how the crash with the floor. Like where this is heading thought.

cataev serj

Can you please tell the way you added the fire? Is it a image with transparency and illumination map?

taston91

hewitt96: Hey man, thanks for the feedback. The pillars in the last image are just placeholders for the blockout. The real ones are being modeled and there's some shots of the first design further up the page.

cataev serj: I think that was just a fire preset that came with UE4. Again, just used for the blockout really

Impala88

looking good guys!

taston91

Hey guys

Quick update on the second pillar i worked on last night, Crits welcome

JustGarry

Been getting some more stuff in UE4, got Taston's pillars in and the roof supports on top, also some WIP floor tiles and some sections to break up the flatness of the walls.

Feedback welcome

JustGarry

Been working a little on the roof peices for the corridor (taston is working on the large dome for the main room). Feedback appreciated.

taston91

Hey PC,

Just a quick update on the dome section i worked on last night, should be in UE4 tonight or tomorrow. Still needs some work but the idea and shape are almost there.

JustGarry

Started work on the modular walls for the main throne room, will add detail later probably as they are a little bare right now.



Test in the scene (although we will be making a large entrance at the back which should lighten up the room.



Also I started work on the floor for the hall room.



Let me know what you all think

Impala88

nice I think though things are looking a bit too rounded. Any plans to add some sculpted details?

JustGarry

@Impala88 cheers man yeah there will definitely be a lot more detail on the props and the throne itself, in terms of the modular stuff like the walls and the pillars don't want to add too much detail just now until we see how everything looks together, can always add it in later. We did toy with the idea of adding chips and cracks etc in ZBrush but we wanted to go for a clean look so didn't want everything to look broken haha.

On a side note made a little window grille last night like in the concept. Need to upres the lightmaps on the floor now though.