Black Temple [WIP]

SylveriaDreams

Hey! I have been working on a fan art piece inspired by Blizzard's concept art for the Black Temple. I'm not making an exact replica of the Black Temple; I was just using the concept art as a starting point. I modeled it out and took some liberties with the color palette, shapes and textures. 

My goals for this project:

1. Create a small scene and finish it! 
2. Learn a new workflow
3. Learn Zbrush
4. Have fun with it

So far I have achieved 2-4. I tried a new workflow based off of a Cubebrush tutorial - 3D Hand-painted Character for Games. I've learned how to use Zbrush for creating high poly bakes and TopoGun. 

Concept by Blizzard:



My workflow for this project so far has been: Blockout scene in Maya > Import into Zbrush and create high poly meshes > Clean up low poly meshes in Maya and Topogun > Bake maps in Maya > Setup textures in Photoshop > Create grayscale texture maps in 3D Coat >  Create gradient maps in Photoshop 

I toyed with the gradient maps until I was happy with my color palette. Here is my progress so far.. (rendered in Marmoset). I also started to go into the details too soon on the textures which is something I battle with. >.<







My next step is start refining my textures. I'll be adding more fel too.


Comments and critiques are welcome.

tomenjerry

@SylveriaDreams Ahhh, great to see some WoW fanart. I think there's a lot to improve. The scale of the scene doesnt feel very big, it feels like a miniture version. Take a look at your proportions and the size of the details. You also have some edge loops that add polygons with no reason. Make sure that the vertecies change the shape of the surface, if they don't it's a bit of a waste of polygons. Some of the edge loops on the long spires are fine, cause they make sure the lighting isn't funny. Hope this helps you on your way! Keep going!

SylveriaDreams

@tomenjerry Thank you that is really helpful. I'll make some adjustments to the scale and edge loops. 

SylveriaDreams

I made some adjustments to the scaling and moved around some rocks in the back. I removed unnecessary edge loops.

I did another pass on the textures starting with the banners, windows, towers, and the bottom section of the temple. I'm finally happy with the banner color scheme; I was fighting with that for awhile. I will probably address the door textures next.  The back of the temple needs more detail.. I might add some sort of detailing back there.

Thanks for taking a look. C&C are welcome.

SylveriaDreams

Some updates from this week.. I did pass on the front and back door textures. I started to add some detailing to the walls since they seemed kinda bare but it still needs some refining. I also did a pass the spike structures.

Next step is more refinement on the walls and then doing another pass on the rocks (textures and placement of meshes).

 Comments & crits are welcome.

SylveriaDreams

 I might go back and tweak a few things but for now I am going to call this one done. I'm ready to start cranking out some props next.

Real-time render is posted on my artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/No4bJ

Comments and critiques are welcome. Thanks for taking a look.

Front and back

High Poly Sculpt

Low Poly Model with Hand-Painted Texture

High Poly Sclupt

Low Poly with Hand-Painted Texture

High Poly Sculpt

Low Poly Model with Hand-Painted Texture