(UE4) Mines of Moria WIP

mcgillchris

Trying to get the basic scale, architecture, textures and lighting down. Rendered in UE4. A scene for my evironment art portfolio. SaveSave

Brian "Panda" Choi

Can't wait for this room to get fleshed out!

mcgillchris

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Benvox2

Looking good. Awesome choice for an environment, will be watching.

mcgillchris

@Benvox2 thanks! I've been enjoying silently following your dark souls environment. I've farmed many a black knight there haha 

mcgillchris

started texturing some props, made a few tweaks to the ground material, post processing, redid the lights, and played with the god ray some. P.S. ignore the texture on the well, haven't gotten there yet. Would love some feedback as I'm trying to figure where to go next. I'm thinking maybe some vertex painting on the walls to break up the monotony a bit. Also looking at some sort of decal for the trash on the floor to add some extra details. Oh, and cobwebs.

mcgillchris

Oh, added fog and tweaked the post, and switched all my lights over to static. 

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mcgillchris

added some more props, played with the lighting, and textured a few more things. The small rubble still needs texturing and I'm not happy with the hole in the wall on the right side. Also trying to figure out something to make the scene pop a bit more.

mcgillchris

lots of tweaks.

mcgillchris

trying out an alternative lighting setup, less accurate to the original reference, but who cares about those right?

amirabd2130

really nice progress so far.
The new lighting looks good, but you are losing a lot of details. I think you could increase the overall light intensity a bit. Have you turned on Global Illumination?
You could also change the color of your sky, which would help to pop more details!
Keep rocking

Tomtegubbe

Are you going to create a lord of the rings character to run around in that scene, that would be cool to see.

Benvox2

Looking good man. I like the new lighting too but  I would try and be careful to avoid very black patches. Also the walls to the side look a little flat. Maybe they are like that in the ref version? I think A bit of depth/normal intensity would help here.

Swaggletooth

I really like the overall look of this, but like Amira said above you're losing too many details. I wonder if you could get some background lights, such as a torch dropped by a fleeing goblin (but keep light emitted as white or desaturated so you don't sacrifice the nice central lighting)

mcgillchris

Thank guys! I agree about bringing the lighting up. I'm going back and reworking the wall and floor materials today so that should help a lot. And a torch or something could be cool, I'm just starting to feel free enough to deviate from the references, so I'll play with some things, thanks for the feedback! 

mcgillchris

Made a myriad of changes, the most noticable of which was redoing my materials. 

mcgillchris

trying to finish this up in the next day or two. 

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amirabd2130

I like the changes you've made, but I think you could give the torch idea a try before calling this done.
here I did a quick photoshop adjustments:

mcgillchris

Ooh, that does have a neat feel. The only thing about the torch is that it adds a feeling of life to the scene, and I want it to feel like no one has been there in years and years. 

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Poinball

Look great !

mcgillchris

@Poinball
thanks!

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Sebvhe

Great looking piece! Tolkien scenes are always my favorite
The thing I'd push a bit further is the "aging" of the scene, right now it still feels a bit clean.
When I think about Balin's tomb, I remember everything being covered by inches of dust and old spiderwebs. I checked a few pictures and it wasn't as much as I remembered, but still, "dusty" is how I'd qualify this room.

Here's what I'm talking about, look at the chest (is it a chest ?) in the foreground

mcgillchris

@Sebvhe thanks! I'm gonna attempt to add in some cobwebs tomorrow, hopefully that will go a long ways to giving it that old feeling 

mcgillchris

Added a dust particle and some chips and cracks to the edges of the walls. 

Klawd

Fantastic work!

mcgillchris

@Klawd thanks!

wester

This is great there is almost no difference between that shot from the movie and your shot.  I had to do a double take.  

mcgillchris

@wester thanks haha

polytom

Nice work dude. That second from bottom shot works really well

Oniram

the atmosphere in these is spot on! great job

mcgillchris

@polytom @oniram thanks!

amirabd2130

turned out great. congrats

Benvox2

Yea awesome likeness man! Looking like screen caps of the movie, awesome to show that you can follow designs so closely!

mcgillchris

@amirabd2130 thanks!

mcgillchris

@Benvox2 thanks, that's high praise after seeing the final shots of your dark souls environment.