THRONE ROOM - Fallen Realm - MaYdaY

MaYdaY

Hey there,
I am going to join this awesome challenge as well and wish everyone good luck and a great creative time.
My idea is to create a abandon, destroyed throne room. A long time ago the realms palace was invaded and after its fall abandoned and never rebuild.

Software used:
3ds Max
ZBrush
Photoshop
Substance Painter
Unreal 4

MaYdaY

I collected a number of references for the Room itself:


And a first very rough over paint. I think it shows a bit the mood already even though I am not totally happy as something is missing here. But back to work now.

MaYdaY

I played around with some ideas to make the room itself more interesting. I added some statues to add more interesting shapes and also made the room collapsed, only hold by some iron chains. It is a bit to busy now so I think I simplify and clean up the middle part. But I do like the nice contrast in the lighting.

Bosen

I love how dynamic the scene is. Can't wait to see more

walklikethis

Loving the chains and sense of movement! Lets see some more

Lilith

Looks awesome! Keep it up

MaYdaY

Some progress of the Unreal 4 block out. The throne and the back parts need more definition. But I think I get an idea of the room.

illustor

awsome and very fast works~!!! WOw

WarrenM

Nice! Very dynamic...

Lawrence Preston

Dynamic, tension, narrative, absolutely brilliant piece

limeforce

Looking very cinematic! What's the story of the chains though?

Benmx

Good, nice concept

MaYdaY

Thanks for the positiv feedback, glad you guys like the concept.

The Story for the chains: They are used by the attacking forces to pull down the walls. They were shot from big Ballistas to anchor into the walls and the chains are used to pull the walls down. The remaining ones are doing the oposite and holding the walls when the castel fell apart.

Still there is a lot to define and to blockout but I started working on the floor texture to define material and style bit more.

Espen

Well done Sir MaYdaY. Excellent start. I love the archaic and abandoned feel to the scene and the mystic storytelling touch. Make sure the room is not geting too dark. Use the incoming sunlight to play with the shapes of your statues and make sure the throne gets a bit more attention. Really looking forward to see more. And your texture detail is amazing as always.

noscope

Those floor tiles are sweeeeeeet

juoolz

Have to agree tiles are sick!!

hewitt96

This is looking pretty cool so far!! those floor bricks are very well done!! Looking forward to more.

MaYdaY

Last days I was working on my white box to define the modules and the architecture in more detail. There will be an update on this soon.
As well as this I was also doing some work in Substance Designer to create a material network I can use for almost all my stone assets. So I came up with something like 50% final material. (later I add moss, and dirt etc.) The cool thing is, I only need to change the Hi and Low Poly to generate the same base material for all modules. I started doing my Wall Textures as a test case. V vertex colours are used to blend two different materials together.

mr.craft

Llove the details. Can't wait to see more. Best of luck.

Spoon

Furiously sexy!

lopezmolano

Thumbs Up!!!

MaYdaY

Thanks Guys!
I am now defining my modules and here is a first selection. They will be done in Max and ZBrush and get the same Substance Designer network Material I used already for my wall textures.



[FONT=&quot]And here is a more defined block out of the Throne room itself before it gets destroyed.[/FONT]

EpicBeardMan

The material looks nice, I can see it's hand-made (or I'm just blind). It is pretty "wet". It's spot-on if you are going for the wet look, but if not, I would turn up that roughness (if you are working in PBR). So fare everything else looks good.
Cheers!

LunaZ

I like your approach. Model the room first and then destroy it!

MaYdaY

Thanks for the nice feedback guys.
EpicBeardMan: Good point. I am playing around with lighting and material to get the right look and feel. Atm. The stone looks bit to metallic in general.

I am now in the asset creation bit. Great fun but bit slow progress as I only have weekends to work on the scene. I try to use one Substance to get the base material for all of my stone assets.


Here are some of the Assets quickly put together. Still long way to go thougth.

MaYdaY

Lighting test for the scene. Still have bit problems getting Lightmass to do what I want but there is some progress

Espen

Great work on the heavy stone wall feel and the way light reacts to the surface. All this comes with a medieval touch and historical accuracy - though base in a kind of fantasy setting. Excellent progress. :thumbup:

IxenonI

This looks cool Martin, looking forward to where it goes...

MaYdaY

Thanks guys. Wich I had more time to workon the scene but unfortunate I think I have to stop and finish this scene later on.
Nevertheless I got a little update on the scene

Orb

I can't see your picture, I don't have 3d glasses

MaYdaY

Ahhh, copied the postprocess volume from another level and forgot to reduce the fringe effect Uploaded new screenshots without this noise.

d1ver

Loving the tilted composition ideas
great job so far man!