THRONE ROOM - Botanical Eden - Chuartdo

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Hi everyone,

I'm excited to participate in this challenge after seeing so many creative entries.
This will be a good experience for me to create 3D environment and assets from scratch. As I'm also learning to create a game using Unreal Engine.

For throne room I decided to use theme of natural elements of earth and wood.
Will work out the details with few concept sketches.

I’ll be using following tools:

Painter
Zbrush
Lightwave 3D
Substance Indie Pack
Unreal Engine 4

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Here is my first concept sketch. Throne room shaped like Venus Fly trap.

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Concept for the throne platform and seat.

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Started working on rough stand in models based on concepts. Tried out Zbrush's new polygon modeling tools and FBX export. Layout objects in Unreal Engine.

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Test out asset workflow with simple foliage. Modeled low poly plant and grass. Added PBR texture in substance painter. Rendered vegetation in UE4 with water shader.

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Start to build various decor for the environment. Finished texturing stone post holding the giant pine cone. Layered in tile and concrete materials using Substance Painter. Added weathering using liquid stream Particle brush.

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Stone pillar.

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Round stage for the throne seat.

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Throne seat.

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Leaf Roof, Petrified Bud,Round platform

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Start layout completed assets in Unreal Engine 4. I replaced the low poly ground with UE4's landscape tools. Also used the Track Generator tool to create the walk path with collision boundary.

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For the final submission, I'm going to concentrate on detailing the stage area around the throne .
Decorate the landscape with trees, grass, walls, and rocks using various generic UE4 environmental assets.

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Started lighting the stage by adding several spot lights. I re-textured the ceiling to reddish color. Also double the stage resolution to 4k. Reused the backside of the step stone model for ceiling decoration.

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Choosing perspective and lighting for the final submission.