[UE4] Art Deco Train Station

ReneFisher

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Greetings! Here is my latest project in UE4, a Train station based on an exaggerated Art Deco style. I started the project with the Train model last summer and wanted to revisit the style. Not including the train, the project has taken about 3 weeks to get where I am now, and I expect to finish it in another 7.

Also here is my pinterest board with all my references if you're interested.
http://www.pinterest.com/rene78634/art-deco-train/


Concept Art (I plan to have more stuff inside the station, this is just for the architecture really)

Early Maya Wireframe

Screenshot of what I have so far in UE4

Screenshot of what I have so far in UE4(not sure whats going on with the train material... its only temp anyways.)

Screenshot of what I have so far in UE4


Train Concept (colors going to change... this was before I decided to make the whole station

Train Model

Feel free to offer suggestions, tips and tricks, they are greatly appreciated!
Ill be updating at least once a week, hopefully!

Snefer

Love the idea!

ReneFisher

Thanks!
Starting to texture the Train, let me know what y'all think. Just the base of the train (thats why the bottom looks funny... it'll be covered up) more parts to come.

atomander

I really like this idea! I think the rounded front of the train could use a bit more geometry to help silhouette. Looking forward to more!

ReneFisher

Noted, Thanks!
2nd piece of the Train... just the wheel area left.

Stained glass material isnt done, its just a 3DO preview.

MrD4rth

awesome idea, man. cant wait to see it finished and lit.

Texelion

This will be nice.

I really suggest that you put more polys on the round parts of the train ( and every round assets in general ), there is no need to have such low poly curves, especially for a next gen portfolio piece.

FemCharles

This is a nice idea!

Although before you go onto texturing i would spend some more time blocking out your scene. As you mentioned you was going to put more props in, so i would spend some time doing that first. Give it some life, then i would block in some colours before getting into the textures.

ReneFisher

Made some progress, mostly materials and lighting. Still have to add lamps/lanterns and actually do some proper texturing, but it's coming along





Im having some issues making the stained glass material, if yall can provide any tips that'd be awesome. Im not too experienced making any sort of advanced materials so any resources pertaining to that would be great too.

ReneFisher

Minor update,still working on some texturing stuff and trying to get the stained glass/lighting to work correctly.

Nuclear Angel

I can not help you with the materials. But it is looking wonderful! One thing though. As FemCharles said earlier, it would really be good if you blocked out the more of the scene before proceeding. Then you can get a feel of what needs to be prioritized and what you can cut. Also it would help if you can find a good composition early for some beauty shots.

But good job, it will be a blast to see this get finished.

Texelion

Maybe the problem with the glass is that it looks a bit boring and washed out. I don't know a lot about art deco, but if I look at art deco windows on Google I see a lot of interesting shapes and some bright colors.











Maybe you could go for something more interesting than some rectangles ?

AbKI

Oooh, love this theme, really different. Looking forward to seeing this one progress.

ReneFisher

@Nuclear Angel: Thanks! Normally I would have totally blocked it out a bit more, but because its for a class where I need to have a finished-ish looking environment in a couple weeks, I had to go about it a little differently. I'll start heading more in that direction once it becomes a personal project rather than a graded one.

@Texelion: I totally agree and Im thinking Im going to redo the stained glass to look more like this... the way I currently set it makes it really difficult to paint a nice clean stained glass design. Thanks for the references though!


So this is sorta a step back from completion, but a step in a better direction none the less. I realized the scale was just way too small the way I had it before, and although it means making more stuff to fill the space, I expanded it dramatically.

This is just a rough mockup, I need to realign some of the seams and such but you get the idea.



(anyone know what the noisy artifacts are from? I just took a high res shot and they seemed to pop up...)


I also made a Ticket booth/Info station and a couple of lighting elements.

billymcguffin

The noisiness is probably from screen space reflections. You should be able to increase the SSR quality in your post process volume.

throttlekitty

Looking ace! I was going to suggest lighting fixtures, but it looks like you've got that covered now.

locater16

Wow, that acid stained concrete floor looks really cool, keep it going!