[UE4+substance] Abandoned Theme Park area (FINISHED)

Nathan3D

Been playing a lot of Planet Coaster a lot and thought i would do a theme park scene but give it a bit of atmosphere and make it abandoned. Im going to slightly base it off the theme park in chernobyl and hopefully get that creepy abandoned feel. 
here is a mood board that i put together using PureRef(really handy piece of software)

and a quick layout that im thinking would be good, colour coded for importance in the scene

next stop will be to do some block out in unreal and then possibly move over to substance to test some materials.

Nathan3D

lighting test in unreal, going for overcast bleak kind of lighting, I think lighting is my weakest point any tips?
im going to watch unreals stream next weak on lighting and see if I can pick anything up

Nathan3D

another lighting test think its getting better, made a new sky sphere as well. any suggestions? maybe the DFAO is a bit too strong?

Ashervisalis

I'm excited for this. Should turn out pretty cool!

Nathan3D

@Ashervisalis thanks

here is a concrete material i made in designer, exposed parameters so i can change it and blend between them

Nathan3D

created some more materials over the last few days.
Wooden Boards

moss

old discoloured stones with and without wetness

Nathan3D

starting to put some things together to see how its looking, starting with the bumper cars.


bit stuck on how to go about the dead leaf piles any ideas?

Nathan3D

work for today, created a test leaf pile, think it looks not bad will work some more on the texture and stuff tomorrow and then create some variations

Stiff

Your work look really cool at the moment and the leaves on the ground are so good, how did you made theses piles ? Great work, continue go on that way.

Shirk

Really reminds me of Raindrop so far, cant wait to see the rest! 

Nathan3D

@Stiff @Shirk thanks a lot guys
the piles where made with simple leaf cards, object paint and massFX.
here is another wip will place the leaves properly once i have the bumper cars finished and in place.

Nathan3D

some scaffolding work

Nathan3D

finished some work tonight anyone got any C&Cs? 

Nathan3D

small update but one nonetheless. add some lights and the control station, tried out some decals for below the leaves and as always tweaking the lighting as I go

Nathan3D

trying out some new foliage methods what do yous think? I think it maybe looks a bit too sharp?

Nicorepe

I think is going in a really nice direction, the theme is really interesting!

Nathan3D

Nicorepe said:

I think is going in a really nice direction, the theme is really interesting!

Thanks for the comment
I re-done the grass think this reads better and has some more colour variation

Nathan3D

almost finished the HP pf the bumper car

Nathan3D

this is where i am at the moment things are looking pretty good i think any comments?

Prylos

Great models and materials. I'm really curious to see what you're going to fill the rest of the environment with.

macoll

Prylos said:

Great models and materials. I'm really curious to see what you're going to fill the rest of the environment with.

+1, can't wait for the final mood and scene, thanks for sharing

Nathan3D

thanks guys for the kind words, im still working on this been creating some substances for the trees that will be going in

Nathan3D

update here, think im almost finished.

nastobi123

very moody, materials look good man. The grass patches look weird tho for some reason.  Subbed 

Macebo

It's turning out great, very silent hill-esque. If you asked me, i'd tune down the blurred trees on the background

ZacD

I feel like you went overkill with the grass and leaves, keep the piles of leaves by walls and fences that they would end up blown against naturally. Right now it's a too busy. 

Doxturtle

That bark is so good great material work on this scene!

Nathan3D

thanks for the C&Cs guys here is it is with some things adjusted.

hmm_rock

That is a really nice bark material, I'd love to see the node editor for it. This turned out really nice and it's a great concept! I think some sparser leaf "piles" (really just a few leaf cards) would make a nice transition around the denser piles. It could also add some nice contrast and lighting to have more coverage of the hanging cloth above, the corner closest to the camera in the first image perhaps, to draw the focus down to the bumper cars more. The blur is still a bit much, but overall looks great!

Nathan3D

@hmm_rock thanks you can see a zoomed out graph over on my artstation https://www.artstation.com/artist/nathanmackenzie
thanks for comments ill see what I can do

Nathan3D

thank you all for the crits, im calling this finished here a couple images and for more check out my artstation  https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dlabW