[UE4] Old Pub

Adel0n

Thanks a lot who helped me with critics and comments, and just for watching the topic. I learned a lot on this project. I'm happy with the result, and in my opinion, as for the first environment looks not bad. In the next project I will take into account mistakes made here, and I am sure that will be much better.
So, the final result. Hope you liked it.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d98x1

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Hello, Polycount!
I'm working on a small environment for my portfolio, so I would like to show my work and get some feedback. My goals is learn more about work in SD, SP and UE4, improve my skills and get a good piece for my portfolio.
A scene is based on a awesome concept by Isaiah Sherman.



Here is my progress so far:


Some textures (SD 5):




And here is a pool table, which I had made today.


Thanks for watching!

Matt_Billeci

Really digging this! The ceramic tiles are looking a little large. I'd scale them down or make them tile a little more. Your lights also seem to be leaning a little to much on the bright side. You also might consider adding more variation into the concrete in the back because I can easily spot out where the material tiles. Subbed so looking forward to future updates!

EpicBeardMan

Great work so far. Materials alone are awesome. You have fairly good detail in them. Matt is right by saying that you can notice the tiling in the bricks. To fix this, you can play with vertex painting, but it's up to you.
Keep it coming!

Cheers!

oxblood

that snooker table man... well done

amirabd2130

looking forward to this

Adel0n

Hey, guys, thanks for your comments and advices! Glad you like it!
Here is a small update. Added a door and pillars, improved wooden and ceramic textures.

Rawbert

Is it just me or does the door seems abit of?

EpicBeardMan

Waiting for further progress, so far, you have done a nice job with the materials.

Cheers!

Madosho

That is coming along nicely man . I feel like the wooden struts feel a little too new in comparison to the rest of the environment's look. It feels a little out of place. Keep em coming .

Limewax

Rawbert wrote: »

Is it just me or does the door seems abit of?

Door seems a bit off in a few ways:

Proportions seem askew. Door appears to be too wide.
The level of grunge is consistent across the entire door, which is a bit uncanny.
Presentation of the door (the lighting) is not complimenting the form.
Metally bit doesnt read as well as other materials in the scene.

Adel0n

A little bit more progress.

clinington

Rawbert wrote: »

Is it just me or does the door seems abit of?

Looks too wide to me. Good progress otherwise Are you going to change the lighting?

Adel0n

clinington wrote: »

Are you going to change the lighting?

I'm trying to change the lighting to get a better result.

More progress after the little pause.

For me bottles are actually not good and require some more work. I'm having some troubles with the transparency in UE4.

EpicBeardMan

Good progress so far.

Cheers!

Matt_Billeci

Still think you need to adjust this texture because its easy to spot out where it tiles

Last_Attempt

Looks awesome so far, can't wait to see the finished product!

Adel0n

Thank for feedback, guys!
Here I reworked the lighting and added more props. Also I decided to make bottles not transparent, I think it's looks better.

Adel0n

After the "small" break I decided to come back to the scene, and finally finish it. There are a lot of work, a lot of things need to change.
What is done now:
The new material of bottles, and now they are transparent and made of glass!

New wood texture and chairs, also a little playing with presentation

And different subtle but important changes here and there

KrisLW

I think you're in a good place so far - definitely not too far off track!

I love the chair/stool remakes - a bit more detailed than the concept, but it adds some visual interest.

Three things that really stand out to me: the first being the lighting. Your lighting set-up appears significantly brighter than the concept. The concept is kind of dark and moody, yours still looks bright and happy by comparison.

By extension of that, your concept overall seems much "cleaner" thus far. The concept looks like a bar after a long night of business; food, trash, crumbs, scraps, money on the counter, etc. For example, the bar itself: concept is scratched, dirty, peeling. Yours looks like it was just built. The beer bottles are a good start to messing it up, though!

Lastly, the floor. Your tiles are a bit bigger than the concept, and in the concept, the small square corner tiles are all a darker color. Minor details. The big thing is that I feel your floor isn't shiny enough. The tiles look like they could be made from rough brick for all I know, versus having that worn-down shiny appearance of a well-used stone/tile floor.

Adel0n

@KrisLW Thanks for feedback! Here I tried to correct some things.
New tables

Adjusted floor texture, now it is a little less noisy, and some experiments with lighting and ReflectionCapture. I think that now it looks more atmospheric and cozy.

Adel0n

New fire, new bottles and another small changes. What do you think?

RobeOmega

I feel your scene currently has too much of a reddish hue to it, also there seems to be far too much bloom on the light sources.

I made a small edit, I would say lower the bloom a bit more than my edit.

cgtoolsmith

Cool, I really like to see your progress ,solid asset modelling!

Feedback:
- To match the concept more I would tune down the lighting, it is a bit too bright at the moment, especially the fire and the neon lights, I also think you don't really need the big lens flare ^^ I think you can easily fix these issues by using a darker LUT.

-  Find a way to match the floor texture with the concept. Maybe a little bit more broken/worn out wood look? (Not too extreme though), or another texture mixed/blended with the floor.

Here super quick color correction for you:



Keep it up and have fun!

Adel0n

@Robeomega @vonBerg Thanks a lot for feedback and ideas!
New update so far: a little bit more details and a new LUT:

Adel0n

Approaching the final stage. Added some DOF, dust and random details. I'm almost happy with the result, want to add the final details, make some cool screenshots and add to the portfolio. So would be glad to know what do you think.

Adel0n

Probably the last update, so if there are no remarks, I will do a final presentation for my portfolio.

KrisLW

Much better! Right now the main thing that is standing out to me is the fire and it's reflection on the floor. The bloom still seems a bit strong, and the first few lens flare dots are so tight that they almost look like they are orbs of some kind actually in the scene. For the reflection of the fire, it's in the completely wrong spot. Do you have a light source for the fire in front of the fireplace? The reflection from the fire itself would realistically be over behind the chair - reflections on a glossy floor like that always reflect straight down, regardless of camera angle, they don't follow perspective. Where the reflection from the fire is on the floor, there is nothing above it in the scene to create that reflection.

Do you have reflection captures in the scene, and are they up to date?

Other than that, it's looking great! The little details you've added really help - even the chair etc all of the way in the very back. The last thing that stands out to me in comparison to the reference is the ambient lighting, or lack there of. Making the lighting darker was a definite improvement, but your shadow areas go straight to black - in the concept, it looks like there is a window on the left side of the image, and possibly another behind the bar, and something else off to the front right. That extra ambient light plays up the smokey/dusty atmosphere and softens out the lighting a bit.

Adel0n

@KrisLW Thanks a lot for the awesome feedback!

It was some problems with the placement of Reflection Captures. For me now reflections is some kind of magic, sometimes it looks very cool (table), sometimes very strange, and in this case actually it was the reflection from the crocodile, not from the fire. I was playing a bit, and finally got the nice orange reflections from the fire, which I want so long.
So a quick update:

Adel0n

Thanks a lot who helped me with critics and comments, and just for watching the topic. I learned a lot on this project. I'm happy with the result, and in my opinion, as for the first environment looks not bad. In the next project I will take into account mistakes made here, and I am sure that will be much better.
So, the final result. Hope you liked it.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d98x1

Ged

the props look good but the scene is too dark for me to see those lovely details

ZacD

The lighting needs a lot of love, and the bloom is way too strong. The props by themselves look great. 

The wall texture looks too even and looks like the photoshop generated clouds filter. Try to make it cleaner except where it would actually be dirty.