[UE4] Thrones Of The Leviathans

bearrrs

I finished my last environment in the spring during my last semester in college, and since I started working I've made progress on personal projects here and there but nothing with a real set goal. So, I figured it was time to start a new environment. 

I want to create a throne room fit for gods that rule over an island on a sea plagued by leviathans.. I like to work out a lot of my design in 3D while I'm going so I don't have any crazy impressive concept work but here's an overview of some stuff I'm looking at for inspiration. I've always loved the lore of Dragon Stone in the game of thrones/ASOIAF universe so the idea is a little bit inspired by that.. But with sea monsters.


In progress Asset, I'll probably clean up the details on this and take apply it to other assets.


Very very basic blockout just to get the general layout, scale is pretty wonky right now but I'll continue refining from this point on and get it all under control.

Thanks for checking it out! I'll be back with an update within the next day or so. 

Tomtegubbe

Nice idea, you probably know how to do pillars already, so ignore me in case you already figured it out. I found that when creating objects that should have perfect symmetry on all four sides it's best to just sculpt on one or two sides of the pillar and then bake your maps from that and later mirror the low res mesh in another program and patch it together. Also obviously it's probably best to divide the pillar into numerous subtools. There might be a better way but I don't know of it, zbrush seems very bad at creating models that are symmetrical on all four sides.

Throne room for gods, cool idea.

bearrrs

Tomtegubbe said:

Nice idea, you probably know how to do pillars already, so ignore me in case you already figured it out. I found that when creating objects that should have perfect symmetry on all four sides it's best to just sculpt on one or two sides of the pillar and then bake your maps from that and later mirror the low res mesh in another program and patch it together. Also obviously it's probably best to divide the pillar into numerous subtools. There might be a better way but I don't know of it, zbrush seems very bad at creating models that are symmetrical on all four sides.

Throne room for gods, cool idea.

Thanks! Yeah any symmetrical architecture I usually handle in that way, but it's definitely a good note for efficiency. 

bearrrs

Tightening up the blockout a little more.

kohg

Really liked the high poly pillar, but the low poly ones you got on the scene seem like they got some weird shading going on.

bearrrs

kohg said:

Really liked the high poly pillar, but the low poly ones you got on the scene seem like they got some weird shading going on.

Hahah, I know. It's not a finished asset so I just decimated it in Zbrush quickly to test the scale/fit with the scene.

Wolves

This is looking really good so far even without any textures! I'm looking forward to seeing this completed

EternalEcho

this already looks incredible. keep it up!

bearrrs

Wolves said:

This is looking really good so far even without any textures! I'm looking forward to seeing this completed

Thanks! Glad you like it so far, I'm excited to make more progress.

bearrrs

EternalEcho said:

this already looks incredible. keep it up!

Thank you! : 3