WIP Chong Fei Giap Scene in UE4

mcgillchris

Update: Finished up the project.



Thread for the scene I'm working on based on a piece of art by Chong Fei Giap. I welcome feedback along the way. Working on this as an environment art portfolio piece. 

mcgillchris

Current progress. Setting up the scene in blender. 

RainbowRat

Love that guy´s environment pieces, I´m eager to see how this´ll turn out! Especially all the tiny details and color :>

mcgillchris

@RainbowRat yea they are gorgeous. And I cant wait to get to that part. Building modeling is a cruel form of torturing. I just wanna texture and do cute props haha

Kanni3d

Damn, composition is already settling nicely. Great stuff so far!

mcgillchris

@Kanni3d thanks!

mcgillchris

Update, bringing things into unreal and doing the first pass on texturing. Trying to find a balanced between stylized and realistic. Might do another pass that's a bit more stylized. Also, the wood texture is a placeholder I was using to doublecheck my UV's. 

Di$array

You've picked a great piece to recreate in 3D, There are loads of busy little interesting parts to that concept. The modeling is coming along great. I do also agree that you should develop and push the stylised look furtehr into the piece as it will definitely give it added charm.

Keep it up and I look foreward to your next update.

mcgillchris

Adding in some more things, and loads of texturing to do still. Thanks Disarray!

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Lighting pass, tweaks with materials and in post, plus a few more details and finally a plant. 

Jaston3D

oh yeah this is nice. Even that little touch of green foliage made it way better can't wait for more

mcgillchris

@Jaston3D yea it really helped a lot. I'm wondering if the leaves are a bit big? 

mcgillchris

yay for plants

CHarleyII

This is great work. Keep it up 

mcgillchris

@CHarleyII thanks!

FreneticPonies

Nice, though the textures in the concept have more contrast than the ones you have now.

RustySpannerz

Lovely scene! But I think you're losing out on some of the vibrancy of the colours, although that must be hard to do for a pastely scene. 

mcgillchris

@FreneticPonies agreed, I need to go back and add a little contrast to my base texture. Also I'll be vertex painting in some variance. 
@RustySpannerz Thanks! And yea I am loosing some of the vibrance. I'm constantly tweaking back and forth, trying to find a way to bring it into reality without loosing any of the magic or overdoing the Post Processing. I think a lot of it is the lighting, there's a lot more lighting variance in the concept than I have in mine. I need to concentrate on finishing up the modeling and texturing, but I plan on doing loads of tweaking at the end to try and get the feel. I'm also experimenting with some fog or camera fade to try and match how the left side of the picture fades to white a bit. 

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Cables, and you can't tell in the screenshot, but added wind to all the plants and cloths, plus a few small lighting adjustment. 

Rmlambert

This looks like such a nice place to be, the touch of bloom really helps, nice work so far

Tits

I love the colourfull-washed out look!

mcgillchris

Thanks!

lotet

beautiful, you really nailed that "high budget anime background look".

Gaurav Mathur

You're doing a great job of preserving the softness of the 2D image in your 3D work.  I'm looking forward to seeing your progress with this piece...

mcgillchris

Expanded the scene a bit and did a bit more modeling. Gonna try and tackle the signs tomorrow. 

Coneman02

I love Fei Giap's work and your 3D rendition is looking fantastic! Keep up the good work!

Quack!

I love the concept and you are doing great with the mood and lighting.  The biggest critique I can give is that you should try to nail the wobbly lines of EVERYTHING in the concept.  Your hyper-straight lines are clashing with what the concept accomplished.  I would even attempt a material that accepts vertex colors as a 'wobble' deformation so that you can hit the scene up en masse in UE4 rather that do it per asset in a 3D package.

Can't wait to see more!

mcgillchris

@Quack! Thanks! That's really helpful critique. I had no idea I could deform with vertex colors, but it makes sense. I'll look into it and see what I can come up with. 

mcgillchris

Signs! (all but one), reflections, couple lighting/shadow tweaks, and played around with vertex deformation, but only slightly. 

Stu2Prof

I love these colours. Are you using any particular lighting/Postprocess effects to bring out the saturation or is it just the textures doing the heavy lifting?

mcgillchris

@studtoprof maybe this will answer your question. Top to bottom: Unlit, Detail Lighting, no Post, with Post

 

mcgillchris

In my post I'm adding bloom, a LUT, pulling the shadows to a purple, and a couple other minor tweaks. 

Stu2Prof

Answered my question perfectly! Thanks so much for that mcgillchris

mcgillchris

Whoops double posted. 

mcgillchris

Trying to finish this up in the next couple of days. Any major suggestions or eyesores?

ZacD

The plant material could use some color variation, less dark in the shade, and splashes of color like in the concept. 

mcgillchris

@ZacD good feedback. I added a little emissive to make the shadows not quite so black. By splashes of color do you mean the things that look like flowers?

ZacD

Yup.

Macebo

I'm loving the way it is coming along!

You can totally not agree with me, since what i'm going to say is a matter of personal opinion. But if it was me i would reduce that "hazy" bloom of the scene -- if you know what i mean. I think it is too much, to the point where the forms are almost fusing togheter. I like it better on this state, like a (still) fresh mid day:

mcgillchris said:

Again, this is my personal taste. I'm loving the way it is coming together though!

mcgillchris

Good feedback. I was overdoing it a bit. Here's the latest. 

_Kratos_

Hey!
Love the mood and the colors, quite simple but nice.

mcgillchris

Thanks @_Kratos_ !

Today I completely re-did the lighting and post. I think I like it better, its a much closer match to the ref and not as overly processed. 

mcgillchris

Aaaand done.