[UE4-WIP] Moroccan Villa - Feedback needed

DavidBullock3D

Hi everyone,

I’m a third-year computer games art student at Teesside University. I’m currently working on creating a Moroccan villa. I’m looking for feedback on what I have done so far, I’m not happy with how the scene looks but I’m struggling to pin point what is wrong within the scene.

I have taken a lot of inspiration from Joakim Stigsson’s Moroccan Courtyard, I’m hoping to create something with the same level of detail and atmosphere as this scene. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/50E38

 

If you would like to see how I have gotten to this stage I have an Artstation blog which I have been updating weekly. https://www.artstation.com/davidbullock3d/blog

Reference Images

Current WIP

If anyone has any feedback on how I could improve my scene it would be greatly appreciated.

ziwuxin

No details on the textures, all of the walls are flat.  You need to improve your texture details a lot. At the same time, you need to tweak some lighting and post-processing. It will be very helpful for your project by doing all of these things.

DavidBullock3D

@ziwuxin Thanks for the feedback. I will work on improving the details in the texture. Can you explain what you mean by the walls are flat, do you mean because of the lack of geometry to break up silhouette or because the textures don't make them stand out enough? 

BramScrum

For the lighting: try to create some red bounce light. If you look at your first ref picture you can see that the light in the gallery has a red hue due to the light bouncing of the red walls

DavidBullock3D

@BramScrum I will try setting up some bounce lights within the scene and see how it goes. Thanks for the feedback.

ziwuxin

@DavidBullock3Dbecause the textures don't make them stand out enough.

DavidBullock3D

@ziwuxin what do you think to these  improved textures?
@BramScrum Do you know of any good tutorials/documentation on bounced lighting or just lighting in general?

DavidBullock3D

I have revamped the textures in my scene. I couldn’t get the pastel colours to work well with my lighting, so I looked at some different references. I found a lot of courtyards had a white and green theme, I tested that in my scene and it seems to work a lot better.

wirrexx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_EdaqNY1kg

Take a look at the incredible Stigssons lighting and textures. I think you've got your inspiration from his work!  a lot of his texture if not all, has a good highlight on the edges. don't be afraid to do so to. 

He is good with textures, cause he concentrates on the big material faults, then secondary and threshere. 
Also his edges are soft so it bakes down a lot better=). 

DavidBullock3D

Joakims work has been a massive inspiration of mine he is a very talented artist. Thanks for the feedback, I need seem that I have some sharp edges on my pillars, I thought about chamfering them, but I didn’t want to increase the poly count on them. I might have to go back to them and make them softer.