Under the Great Bridges: Artstation Challenge Environment

fearian

Hi all! I've been plugging away at my Artstation challenge entry. I've been wanting to an environment in the style of old Orientalist paintings for a long while and thought I'd try a mashup with this great Keyframe Concept by my talented friend Lap Pun Cheung.

Concept:

Reference:


I haven't worked on a project outside the Mobile scene for a while so it's been a real splash of cold water to the face, haha! I spent the first week or two learning Substance Designer, which has already paid off as Immediately made it a core part of a new project at work! Otherwise its been quite slow figuring out the scene and trying to find the time to work on this.


Still I've been going at it for a couple of weeks so I'll bring this thread up to speed.

fearian

Spent too much time on an art blockout but I really wanted to get comfortable with the scene and plan it out in my head.



I've decided to keep the focus on the central bridge rather than over-reach with the background elements. But I really want to nail the Egyptian/Arabic look on the building here. I have an idea in my head about underwater elements beneath the surface but it's strictly a "not now" idea.

I made a paintover of the bridge to guide me. Maybe too European looking?



And after modelling, sculpting and UV'ing I got the bakes in this weekend:



I've been working on other scene elements like the underside of the buildings, but haven't got the game meshes sorted out yet. 

Working on water tomorrow!

Elithenia

Coming along great @fearian  

Mogyie

really love your work it is very inspirational

fearian

Thanks alot!!

I used Epic's learning resource water as a starting point. It looks pretty good out of the box but there are some more things I need to add in, such as pond scum and bubbles around the edges. That might end up being vertex painted.

I also played around with lighting and skies some more. Closer to the mood I want but there will have to be some points of colour in the textures to break up this grey!

fearian

Moved the bridge to marmoset to work out the detailing and trims.

Gif of the weekends progress!


I'll get some UE4 images soon.

fearian

Posting in my thread har har.



shitposting more like

Elithenia

xD

fearian

Welp I really need to stop with this bridge now and finish off my materials. And then sort out the buildings. And the distance assets. erk.


Back to UE4 now!



So long marmoset!

Maximum-Dev

Looks nice. The Artstation challenge theme was Desert Ruins though, if I remember correctly ?

fearian

it's lost and found civilisations - my concept is from a previous stage of the competition

Elithenia

Congrats on the first page!  

Kazperstan

u got dis ian! Looking forward to seeing it all textured up

Mossbros

I really like the underside of the bridge layout in the bricks, especially with the depth variation. Is that done using normals or geo? curious about how your wires look as well as how you are setting these trims up, looks like a lot of detail. 
Very nice bricks

Martoon

The forms you have going so far are really clean!
You got all the primary secondary and tertiary in there! Looking forward to seeing more

fearian

Thanks so much guys! I'm really trying to finish the materials today
I have all the base materials, and all my bakes... I just can't stop tweaking long enough to put them together!

what's going on the bridge:


@Mossbros: It's tesselation and displacement in marmoset. I can rig that up in UE4 but if this was a practical environment I would just make it actual geometry. Heck I might still do that..

ABinhoF

Loving all the details on the bridge, looking forward to seeing it with the final materials!

fearian

I havn't been completely happy with how texturing has been going, but I'm seriously out of time! So I've been jumping in between UE4 and finishing up the bridge house.

I've been trying to hit a much more stylised lighting theme today - closer to the original keyframe concept. Still alot to do on the building assets and then I have the surrounding environment to block in... Well I'll see how much I can do in a day and a half!