THRONE ROOM - Forgotten Pirate Lair - Darksend / Querly

querly

Hey there! Darksend and I will be working together to create a pirates lair deep within a cave full of treasure and other booty.

We are both 3D generalists. I will be handling the modeling, and Darksend will take care of the texturing. We will be working side-by-side throughout the entire project.

We will be using the following programs to complete the environment:

Maya 2015
ZBrush
Substance Designer
Unreal 4

We are very excited to be part of this contest and we welcome any feedback the community has to offer.

Thank you!

querly

Here are some of the reference images we've gathered to help describe the scene we are going for.

Darksend

Here is some quick concept art we did to help depict the scene we are going for.

querly

The first couple rocks for the cave. Sculpted in Zbrush, re-topologized in Maya, baked in XNormal, and textured in Substance Designer.

Kidzik

Look at those beautiful rocks, great job!

creamsodaser

That is a very good concept, clean and concise!

querly

A few crates for the cave.

EpicBeardMan

Crates are spot-on. I like that you are not afraid using more geometry, which is nice. But the rocks, hmm, they are bad (in my opinion). One on the left is too random (which might sound stupid but bare with me) and the one on the right is to flat, even with the normal map applied (even if it is a cave rock). I would recommend making a rock that is somewhere in the middle of these two rocks. Make it just enough random that looks natural (and cool, of course, natural always looks cool) and it will be near-perfect. Your concept looks interesting which is good, so keep on doing good work. I hope this helps. Good luck.
Cheers!

Darksend

Hey thanks for the feedback! We agree that the rocks could use some more work, we're currently in the process of creating new ones that will be better suited for the environment

Malodomini

Nice crates you two! I like the direction.

Darksend

A progress shot of our throne.

Darksend

Our new rocks were working on for the cave. For this round we decided to keep things a little more subtle. Feedback is greatly appreciated!

Darksend

working on some layout's for the cave

pour.quoi

Hi you guys, the scene's looking really good! The new rock texture is nice, a good mix of stone and scratches, and the shape is interesting. One thing I might change though is some of the color scheme. At the moment it seems too red, and it's a little overwhelming. You could try breaking it up with some extra light sources and maybe adding darker/less saturated tones on some of the background objects. Otherwise keep it up!