[Finished] Treasury Courtyard [UE4](Uncharted 4 fan art)

Yura_Vorobiev

Hi everyone

I recently started a project, treasury courtyard fan art from uncharted 4. My main goal is to level up my modeling skills, learn how to create vegetation, tile textures in substance designer, unreal master material and lightning. Hope i can finish it I plan to add new progress on the environment every two weeks or something like that. 

Next goal is to low-poly everything else i have and some of the assets on screens and start breaking columns with balconies.

Thanks for you attention, and sorry for my english, it's not my native language. Critique are welcome.

Yura_Vorobiev

Hi guys. Here is progress for my environment. Last 6 weeks i participated in the amazing CGMA courses vegetation and plants for games by Jeremy Huxley. So i work heavily on plants for my scene, also learn a little bit substance designer and create few tileable textures, such as bark, cobblestone, mud, moss, plaster. Still need to improve my lighting a lot.
Thanks for your attention.

Meloncov

So the foliage is all looking great. However, I think your lighting is a bit flat, which in turn is making it hard to get a great sense of your materials. The scale on your concrete material looks off, and I think you need to get some dirt and other wear to break up the material, in addition to the moss.

Yura_Vorobiev

@Meloncov thanks a lot for you feedback, i will definitely improve my lightning a lot, for now it is hardest thing for me. And i totally agree about dirt, i'l make dirt pass later

Yura_Vorobiev

Here is my latest progress. I destroy some strucrures, add glass and start making small props.

beccaanthony003

That looks fantastic. You're making really good progress. Just a note, but it's supposed to look abandoned / destroyed? Really make it dirtier and see if you can give it a more destroyed look, like make the staircase look more uneven if that makes sense. That would really add to your scene. 

 I've been looking to transition into more game class. And that vegetation class looks pretty awesome. Think I have to take the pre-reqs before I can take this class though. 

Yura_Vorobiev

beccaanthony003 said:

That looks fantastic. You're making really good progress. Just a note, but it's supposed to look abandoned / destroyed? Really make it dirtier and see if you can give it a more destroyed look, like make the staircase look more uneven if that makes sense. That would really add to your scene. 

 I've been looking to transition into more game class. And that vegetation class looks pretty awesome. Think I have to take the pre-reqs before I can take this class though. 

Thank you. Yeah, it's all abandoned and destroyed. You right about the staircase, and i already have differnet stairs, only need to place them. Right now i'm working on small propses(like those crates) to add more destruction for the scene. And near end of december i will finish them and place in unreal, to show another wip.

Yeah, vegetation class was super great and useful, you can take it with minimum knowledge of zbrush and maya(or another 3d package) Jeremy explains all in details, so you dont need to know everything.

Thanks

Yura_Vorobiev

Fresh update. Made all propses for the scene and start placing them.

Yura_Vorobiev

 

FreneticPonies

Ditch the faked god ray and turn on volumetric fog.

Yura_Vorobiev

Hi, guys! Small update before new year holidays. Did some lighting tweaks(still not final), place more props and vegetation.

Good luck!

RustySpannerz

Lighting looks 300x better, this piece is looking really nice so far! 

Ged

great work on this latest update, looks much more like something out of uncharted now

Yura_Vorobiev

Wrong post(

Yura_Vorobiev

Another update. Work with lighting(still not final but getting close) place all propses, some vertex painting.
Thanks! 

Jack M.

Really nice work so far. I think you need to put a bit more work into your composition though. The shots are definitely not bad, but a bit more focus there will help take this environment into the stratosphere imo.

Yura_Vorobiev

Jack M. said:

Really nice work so far. I think you need to put a bit more work into your composition though. The shots are definitely not bad, but a bit more focus there will help take this environment into the stratosphere imo.

Thanks a lot for your feedback, i will definetely try to improve my composition more. Still need to add mountain to the background, i think it will increase interest to the backshots.

Yura_Vorobiev

Some light test bake. No postprocessing yet

Jack M.

it's definitely coming along nicely but there's some things you still need to work on.

To start, I think your AO is too strong. Be careful to really only use enough, but not more. Don't over do it.

It also looks like you have too much bloom going on right now. I could be wrong about that but the whole scene is coming off very fuzzy at the moment. I would keep bloom to a very low amount.

The second thing your scene is really suffering from is lack of color balance. Almost your entire screen is green at the moment and that's not a good thing. It feels unnaturally uneven. After looking at the original I think the biggest thing you can do to improve your scene is bring out the rich red tones of some of your wood furniture and cabinets. This will be pretty effective in drawing a viewers eye into your image more.

In the original they also included tattered and worn red flags. This is all to get your attention where it should be located.

Be careful to not overdo it though. Keep the red to a handful of pieces in the bunch to keep things visually interesting and natural.

Your sky could stand to be a bit more vibrant as well. At the moment it's quite dull.

Yura_Vorobiev

@Jack M. Thank you for the feedback. It's super helpful because my eyes are kind a swimming. You absolutely right about color balance, i was hoping to fix it in postprocess color grading(i'm struggle with it a little bit ) but maybe i need also to tweak textures to return them some contrast and colors.
Also i need to lower the fog at the scene, maybe keep it only for super distant objects, like the tower in the distance

Thank you so much!

Yura_Vorobiev

Hi guys. Small update, tweak textures, to bring more contrast, tweak some light and tweak a little bit postprocess.
Good luck!

Yura_Vorobiev

Hello everyone! So here is fresh update: i place more folliage, added some decals, made  few statues for the tower and the back of the courtyard. Also play a little bit with light and postprocess. Still WIP
Good luck! 

Ged

that's looking excellent well done! the only thing that stood out to me as a bit odd was that bright water in the first shot?

Yura_Vorobiev

@Ged Thank you!)Yeah, it's water, still need to tweak it, to make less reflecting and darken a little bit

m4dcow

Hey Yury, this scene has come a long way since the vegetation class and is looking really cool!

I think you could probably do with less clutter in the middle of the courtyard, it looks a bit visually noisy.
It also looks like you went a bit too far with those saturated reds on some of the woods.

Other than those little things the scene is awesome, I really like how you used the flowers to give different pops of color throughout the scene especially the 4th image facing the steps.

shabba

Nice work so far

Maybe if you are looking to have a huge impact, I would change the tint of the architecture stone albedo. Push it more white/neutral, and remove the green tones from the structural components. It will have the effect of popping everything else off against it. Maybe its caused by a moss blend at a partial transparency? Or its just green in the base albedo.

Get 'er done.

Yura_Vorobiev

@m4dcow thanks for your feedback! You're right there is a bit noisy in the middle, probably i need to move some things there for more visual interest

@shabbai will definitely try to do so, thanks for you suggestion. There is some multiplier in albedo, maybe i just need to turn it off

kippernicus

Great work so far Yura. After looking at the differences between your last two updates it looks like you might be reaching your creative limit with this scene (no offense). I suggest taking a break to read up on the fundamentals of environment composition and level design. Taking a step back and focusing on the fundamental aspects of what makes an environment readable will help your scene much more than tweaking post processing or decals as this point. Here are some links with some of the info you'll need to help push your scene much further. Hope this helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k70_jvVOcG0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=japZUai8jAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPnSnHHDVEQ

Yura_Vorobiev

@kippernicus Hi, no worries, you feedback are very valuable. I'll watch you videos and maybe some others to learn more about composition and environment design. And i will try to push my scene further with new knowledge.
Thanks!

daria

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Yura_Vorobiev

Hi guys! So here is my final update. More shots you can see at my artstation https://www.artstation.com/artwork/WWkZX 

Thank you all for your critique and support.
Good Luck!

Yura_Vorobiev

I also made a small flythrough video
https://youtu.be/KdNE6do6FAc

wirrexx

gorgeous! 
love seeing your artstation, going from one gun to this massive environment! 

Yura_Vorobiev

@wirrexx thank you!)

StraightDraw84

Very cool stuff!

Jack M.

This turned out really nice! 

TheLazyScarecrow

What an amazing model  :O It looks wonderful !

By the way, just a noob question, in which software did you model those small plants / flowers ? -> http://prntscr.com/j268on

Yura_Vorobiev

@TheLazyScarecrow hello and thank you) I create all my plants inside zbrush.I also wrote small article on 80 lv,  there more details https://80.lv/articles/recreating-uncharteds-environments-with-ue4-and-substance/

TheLazyScarecrow

Okay i will read it, thanks a lot for answering !

All those details on your model are trully amazing btw, the more i look at it the more amazing details i see ;-;

AlirezaMorgan

you've replicated the uncharted look so good that without reading the title i thought you were an Artist at Naughty Dog and This was actually an Uncharted Environment

Yura_Vorobiev

@AlirezaMorgan thank you so much! Great to hear so kind words