Throne Room - Hall of Ascension - AdamOstridge

AdamOstridge

I'll be throwing my hat into the ring for this one; I'm not an environment artist by trade (FX artist) so I'll be tailoring this more towards the lighting and FX side of things. I'm doing this more to sharpen up my environment skills than to compete but on with the arty things!

Seeing as most people seem to be posting up software lists:

- Maya - for all modelling, UVing, etc.
- Zbrush - Tasty sculpted detail
- Substance Designer - Tileables and possibly sprite generation
- Substance Painter - Asset texturing
- Photoshop - General image editing, colour grading, etc.
- PopcornFX - for all the delicious FX goodness
- UE4 - Engine of choice

I'm still throwing things around with my idea so I'm staying in the blockout phase as long as possible but below are some initial scribbles, ref boards, blockouts, etc. It's about as chaotic on paper as it is in my head so hopefully I'll have something more intelligible for everyone soon!

Cryptic scribbles, I know what they are...honest...


Quick train-doodle of the throne, possible serpent sculpture


Chaotic moodboard of "ooo that looks cool"


Very early blockout of the layout, not too happy with this so will probably change significantly


And some messing around with lights and textures to see if I can work out what I want to do



More updates to come soon!

AdamOstridge

Oops, so I forgot to update the thread again, sorry! I haven't worked on this too much recently and most of the time has been spent on RnD type stuff and tech tests so nothing too awesome to show just yet but hopefully now I can start getting into the main production. The layout and design is still in flux and probably will be until I start getting into the detailing but for updates sake, here's some quick and dirty little colour tests for the initial corridor mainly just to get my head around what I want to aim for.

Kazperstan

Looking nice! Top Rights my favourite I think, nice a balanced.

Spoon

Im of the opposite opinion. Balanced is boring, I like the bottom 2 the most

AdamOstridge

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll definitely explore this more once I get FIIINAALLY get the level blocked in. Until I get time to sit down and solidly thrash out some meshes I've been working out some foliage stuff and delving into substance materials. I'll show some node networks when it's more complex than a simple tile but here's a screenshot of the tests thus far.

lucylee378

So it's a kind of grotto, with water for the frogs, an underground background village, and a tribal theme around the throne and the props.

We are going full Unreal Engine 4 on this one The king deserves the best engine

lucylee378

I'm not an environment artist by trade (FX artist) so I'll be tailoring this more towards the lighting and FX side of things. I'm doing this more to sharpen up my environment skills than to compete but on with the arty things!

lucylee378

hi
nice post