The Division - Level Art

Pandator

Hey everyone !

I would like to share with you a compilation of my work on The Division during the last year.
Hope you enjoy !

More images on my Artstation :
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JOEGv

allengingrich

Thanks! Beautiful.

Pandator

Thanks ! 

Synyster

Love it! Thanks for posting man! 

Pandator

Thanks for the nice comment !

tonyblu331

I need snowdrop so badly! Just PM! haha also how hard was to craft this stuff's?

Falkrum

Hey Pandator, amazing work with environment there!

Can you tell me on one question, was the part of your work is modeling, texturing and combine the scene with all those objects and buildings? Or it was are mostly like level design? 

Poseidon8734

Really nice work on the maps!

CodeferBlue

Sweet. What was the most difficult challenge of creating the art? Interested to know.

Pandator

Thanks everyone for the comments !

tonyblu331 said:

I need snowdrop so badly! Just PM! haha also how hard was to craft this stuff's?

Snowdrop is a big engine, not really friendly when you start the first time with all the options inside, but when you understand how the workflow works, you can create so easily.

Falkrum said:

Hey Pandator, amazing work with environment there!

Can you tell me on one question, was the part of your work is modeling, texturing and combine the scene with all those objects and buildings? Or it was are mostly like level design? 

Hi ! I didn't touch the modeling and texturing. So here it's level building, we are in charge to place environment.

CodeferBlue said:

Sweet. What was the most difficult challenge of creating the art? Interested to know.

Really for me it was to work close with level designers. We don't have the same vision for an area, artistic on a side, gameplay on the other. So it's a really a challenge to create a place where the player can use cover without frustrations and just to have a look around because this tag is really awesome, for example

3dlix

Hey Pandator. First, the atmosphere & love for the details are great in the game! Fantastic environment art in every corner! I have a question for you: How many environment artist worked for the project? And how are they organized at the studio? I mean are they split in modeling/texturing combos, like at Naughty Dog, or are you responsible from start to implementation for Assets and Level areas? Thanks. 

Pandator

Hi ! Thanks
For your questions, I can't really explain the workflow, but just for my side it's principally level building propping area with buildings/FX/props/light and working closer with level designer. Sometimes we need to create or integrate some props and textures, but it's few percentage of timework. You can find some of my colleagues from the props team on artstation sharing their works if you want to have a better idea on how they do this for weapons or emblematic props in game. 
And, for the four studios, we are around 30 - 35 enviro artist.

Thane-

You guys did such a great job with The Division, i was just blown away at the detail, but also the quality of the details. Just the detail on the roads, with the snow/dirty snow here and there was really amazing. I can't play at the moment but i really can't wait to explore those maps. I have been watching this guy on youtube play in the meantime and keep shaking my head at how far you can see in the distance. Great level design.

Seriously, seriously hope they create an optional persistent DayZ style survival mode servers where you start with nothing but a can of beans and no can opener and have to look for food and tons of other RARE helpful items you need, with death meaning you completely lose everything. And zombies of course, dangerous ones though.

Pandator

Thanks Thane for your comment !
 I hope you will enjoy your exploration in NYC, and the next add we will add for the game  

Vollgaser

looks good, i like the advert billboard!

Blade113

cool stuff

Pandator

Thanks guys