Vokyo - Futuristic Underwater City Environment

lophead25

Erro there, i'm creating this thread to show my progress with my environment piece i wanted to create all last summer... so it here it goes! Concept art and everything is original (concept art was help from a friend) but i directed the art  and style for it. P.S FORGIVE ME FOR THE BOMBARDMENT OF SHET BUT PLEASE BARE WITH Crit reallly appreciated if possible.

Idea of the environment is a city influenced by Tokyo and Venice (more on the tokyo side). The city will have been flooded and the people will have adapted to the drastic climate change, where people live on the surface and underwater.

REFERENCE & INFLUENCE







CONCEPT ART



















MODELS

Trying to think as modular as possible if i can, and I want the city to be pretty crazy, not sure how much i'll be making for the city yet but it will probably involve a street or market place

Leb

Damn looking good so far. All the animated signs are pretty sweet. How did you end up doing the green vfx on top of the sign?

lophead25

Hey Leb, really appreciate the kind words, do you mean the pulsing green light? If so, I created a material in unreal, with a cosine driving a bump offset I can take a screenshot of the material editor if you wish!

hmm_rock

Very cool concept, looking good so far! The moving holographic signs are going to sell it well. I will say, the coke machine is looking a little out of place, I'd expect it to be more high tech looking, even if it was old. The baked plane inside is looking a little flat and last gen. I'd suggest either adding some geo to the bottles, or adding the illusion of more bottles behind, but this could be place holder, so take it with a grain of salt. Subbing to this!

lophead25

hmm_rock said:

Very cool concept, looking good so far! The moving holographic signs are going to sell it well. I will say, the coke machine is looking a little out of place, I'd expect it to be more high tech looking, even if it was old. The baked plane inside is looking a little flat and last gen. I'd suggest either adding some geo to the bottles, or adding the illusion of more bottles behind, but this could be place holder, so take it with a grain of salt. Subbing to this!

Ya I totally agree with you, the vending machine was my first model for this project, so ill go back and remodel and it to look more high-tech, more polys and more badass Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it

KrisLW

This is going to be an epic project! Very unique concept, and the assets that you've made so far look wonderful. I can't wait to see more!

lophead25

Hey I'm back with a little progress on the blockout and the general feel of the project, looking through some further reference and research, this images below give an idea of what im looking for Crit really appreciated and wanted!

REFERENCE

I plan to add an insane amount of lanterns and glowing signs like the noodle bowl in the reference below.  





GREYBOX







UPDATE ON PREVIOUS BUILDING

I'm unsure what mood i'm going to direct myself into, but the images below are a few tests





TECH/SHADER UPDATES

Heres a tileable water effect in unreal, still need adjustments to depth fading and foam


At the moment, I'm doing some shader tests to get some rain effects hitting the escalators glass and floor. Will post that up soon.

chrisevansart

Looking good man! Keep it up!

lophead25

I appreciate the kind words chris hopefully i can keep it up :P 

An asset that i managed to spruce for the game, crit really appreciated, and should be  an idea of what style  i w ant

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XzG03

lophead25

I've started making more buildings and textures to populate streets, and GETT ALL DA CLUTTER! Feedback and suggestions really appreciate




P.S Don't mind the upside down hiragana, it was a flipped uv mistake :P 

gfelton

This is all gorgeous, honestly

gametime

very promising! keep it up

lophead25

Nearly got this fully textured Feedback really appreciated

KingKellogg

This looks great, keep it up

lophead25

Ay back with more updates

lophead25

Working on the sci-fied gondola to fill the waterways Crit really required/appreciated

lophead25

lophead25

An update on vokyo, working with some rain animated materials and particles to get a better atmosphere with the fog and distance view, crit really appreciated!

https://gyazo.com/624e86220c31577bc2a65e5a904e8605

lophead25

An update on water, rain and smoke effects/materials that will be dotted around in the scene Just click the links to check dem bois out

https://i.gyazo.com/4d48f7fb6479bf9cbcee3cdb2330e880.mp4
https://i.gyazo.com/2b914a42be82172b13e5776e523b6e8e.mp4

DragonGuard

lophead25 said:

An update on water, rain and smoke effects/materials that will be dotted around in the scene Just click the links to check dem bois out

https://i.gyazo.com/4d48f7fb6479bf9cbcee3cdb2330e880.mp4
https://i.gyazo.com/2b914a42be82172b13e5776e523b6e8e.mp4

looks cool. How did you do the raindrop ripples on the water?

lophead25

I made a ripple B&W mask with a radial expontent + Generated Band + a couple of panners for variation and then converted the ripple mask into a normal with 'Normals from Height Map' node. I can post up my material at a later date

lophead25

Moooar updates

lophead25

Imported into unreal engine, and tweaked the lighting a lilll bit

lophead25

lophead25

More in game shots, trying to play with lighting/colour/roughness break up

https://gyazo.com/296ac802349c5c0666a5069470a25103

https://gyazo.com/32b7a21438cdfb95443cc50f775c3d94

https://gyazo.com/53281239dbd5b08205b8e081c8347637

Johnnynapalmsc

Awesome stuff, well done! Love the details

PatsuKiki

Well done mate

JokerP5

This looks great. Cool details and great lighting as well. Keep up the great work.

Ruflse

Holy shit I wanna live there. Great work, specially with the water and lighting.

Aya_Rei

The lighting and colours are just so lovely! Really love the details of the buildings and how the lights reflect beautifully. Amazing work! ^-^

ash733

Hi your work is phenomenal and certainly beyond my league. It's wonderful jut to take in all the visuals. If I could offer any suggestions for the design of your world, I would maybe say that it could be a cool idea to sorta implement some type of life support system for the inhabitants of your world. I get that they may have adapted to the environment, but perhaps you could have some sort of oxygen station or something like that for when your city may get too humid from all the surrounding water. You could even have some sort of defensive wall, weapon or other system for if under water creatures attack you XD. That's all I could think of to boost your already spectacular work

littleclaude

Your smashing it! keep it up.

garcellano

nice! this is coming along

Raffles

Really good work so far, I like the concept and look forward to seeing the finished piece.

It's come a long way since the first draft of the scene, the wet pavements look awesome.

The water ripple technique you're using flew over my head a bit, but I'd love to get a better understanding of it so I can implement something similar in my engine.

Sebviz

looks great man! Keep up the great wok :-)


btw the concept piece you refer to in this thread is made by Mark Ranson and other talented artists. Check his Artstation for more awesome reference: https://www.artstation.com/artist/markranson3d

:-)

lophead25

Thanks for the kind word and crit guys ^-^ Heres an update on the environment. For the water ripples, I created a radial generated band with a panner, I can upload the nodes at a later point

lophead25

Update on some moving elements

Here's a couple of gifs to show off some motion with rain drops, water and some texture closeups

https://i.gyazo.com/9f4c6a7039a2c29cb1c1bda5c1615f81.mp4

https://i.gyazo.com/5acbe0c2ceea2212ffc834ef1a3b49dc.mp4

https://i.gyazo.com/9de9d948c9975b523d394393e6c20c5f.mp4

https://i.gyazo.com/957b1ba1c12f532ad9d42664eb0bea4e.mp4

https://i.gyazo.com/65fa44337f95e237c74ba4440029c5cc.mp4

Tectonic

this is turning out really beautiful!

lophead25

I'm compiling a sort of 'pre-alpha' to get my camera shots/movements working, this is not near the final quality bar i want to achieve

I also plan on including a character within the scene

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lophead25

Update! Trying to populate the scene a bit more with clutter, going to work on a cable spline tool to add craziness to the sky!




Also heres a few assets

Asura

Hey guys, I'm working with @lophead25 on making a character for this scene. To keep things clean on here I made a new thread here . 

lophead25

Getting close to finishing this project, heres an update with gifs!

https://gyazo.com/e3e17c2dab5099447775768a7dfbae18

FreneticPonies

Nice work! Like the river. Wonder why it's always raining in Cyberpunk land? Probably just Bladerunner's fault. Anyway, keep going!

lophead25

Update on the scene movement! Crit really required and appreciated

lophead25

Coming back to the scene to give it some further cleanup, I modelled and textured the interiors to get rid of the bad parallax effect. Heavy crit needed if possible!

https://youtu.be/OJsVVlurroU

Chimp

nice env, lotsa hard work in there! Like it a lot but the render is crap. Got tonnes of flickery aliasy highlights, the lighting hides a lot of your work and makes it hard to read and generally ruins it. Great art, bad scene composition/rendering. 

lophead25

Chimp said:

nice env, lotsa hard work in there! Like it a lot but the render is crap. Got tonnes of flickery aliasy highlights, the lighting hides a lot of your work and makes it hard to read and generally ruins it. Great art, bad scene composition/rendering. 

Hey, chimp, yeah I totally agree with you on those points, it was my first project in unreal and I was quite limited in my knowledge in rendering within the software. Will take this on board for the next project I have in mind!