Stylized Environment WIP

alexrc

Making a stylized hand painted environment as a personal improvement project. Hope you like it! 
Check out https://www.artstation.com/alexrcreamer for more updates and other stuff!

alexrc

Finished the platform, might make a few last minute changes for variation

jose.fuentes

 I like the direction that this is going in, keep it up.  Cant wait to see the pieces together 

alexrc

Thank you

alexrc

Smaller platform

Asim7

Looks really good, big fan of the art style. Looking forward to more updates

sybrix

Looking good! My only crit right now is the lack of contrast and slight color variation in the textures. It's making the textures seem a bit flat. I'd also maybe work on the material definition, namely the roughness/specular of the materials. For example the gems on the pillar don't really read as shiny orbs since they have the same roughness of everything else in the scene. It's also contributing to the overall flatness of everything. If you're making everything diffuse only, another way to address this is to really push the contrast and put really bright and saturated highlights on the shiny materials like the purple and yellow orbs.

alexrc

Thanks for the critique. I'll push the contrast a bit, and see what I can do with the orbs to let them shine a bit more. The only reason I dont want them to shine too much is because I dont want the focus to be taken away, since they are mainly going to be a mid-ground piece instead of up front.

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wirrexx

texturing is getting better for each new thing!!!! i'd love to see your workflow!

alexrc

Thanks Wirrexx! My workflow is pretty simple; I make the base meshes in Maya then I export over to zBrush for sculpting, then I bake using xnormal and hand paint in 3DCoat. With the fence, it was sort of a last addition since my scene was missing something, so I just modeled a base simple mesh and went straight to 3DCoat without sculpting. 

alexrc

updated the textures on the bridge, thought they felt a little too unsaturated

alexrc

Thought I would start to put a few things together to see how it was looking. Havent painted the grass texture yet or the sky. Also have quite a few rocks to put into the scene. I only used one birch and one pine tree just to get a feel for the scene so far, although I have about 3 of each for the final scene. Going to adjust a few textures here and there also

alexrc

Placing rocks and decided to sculpt the cliff tops in zbrush instead of just using terrain and seeing how the terrain textures will look on single polygons before I paint them (thats why they looks boxy xD) 

alexrc

Painted some simple bushes and one of the rocks

alexrc

Starting to come together. Still have a few textures to make. Going to blend the textures on the ground in the engine and do some vertex painting for highlights at the end and make the sky and background

alexrc

Didnt like how the old cliff looked so I resculpted it 

alexrc

Finished the cliff textures and started placing objects around. Still have to paint the path and some dirt and rock on the ground as well as finish the stream under the bridge.

alexrc

Started on the sky, still need to fix some textures and make the water. Also going to add a few more bushes around the area. Also trying to figure out the best way to render the birch leaves in Unity without having those hard shadows... 

alexrc

Environment is finally finished! Decided to scale up a lot of the trees and made quite a few changes in other places. I'll be uploading a video walkthrough also since there are a few animated textures.

alexrc

https://youtu.be/pYR6WbUOXDY

Video walkthrough

Ashervisalis

Hey Alex, it looks really cool! Here's my two main critiques;

- The noticeable repeating textures. You could break them up by adding some meshes, like a rock model on the cobblestone path, or more low plants for the grass.

- The leaf cards could have a lot more time put into them. The texture is cool, but I can obviously see they're flat planes.

- I think you could spend some time pushing the post processing to make all the colours really mesh together. Give it some colour restrictions.