[Finished] Ghost Town Fogmourn - Artstation Wild West Challenge [UE4]

Yura_Vorobiev

    Concept

    Hi guys! So I decided to participate in the artstation challenge.Watching first phase of the challenge was super exciting. And also it was super hard to choose concept, there are so many great works. I choose Igor Kirdeika concepts ghost town. And here is mine artstation topic for the challenge https://www.artstation.com/contests/wild-west/challenges/41/submissions/28921

    Here are the original concepts

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #1 [Blockout + Some HP]

    So i started with creating blockout for chappel and warehouse. Also add few placeholders for props, such as barrels, wheels and hay sack. I'm not entirely sure that I will need a windpump, but let her stay here for now  

   Any critique are welcome, thanks!

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #2 [Blockout + Some HP]

     So today I continued to do blockout of buildings. Also made few bricks in Zbrush for the well

It remains to do the train and wagon blockout and then start hipoly everything.

Ashervisalis

This looks fun, keep at it!

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #3 [Train HP]

So not too much progress for today. I started making hipoly train and rails

Ged

great concepts to work from! nice start, this is of course a lot of work but it could be really great at the end!

Yura_Vorobiev

@Ged thank you! Hope i'll finish it on time 

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #4 [Train HP]

    Today i finished train HiPoly and almost wagon. Made lowpoly for train and start to unwrap. After bake i'l place train properly as crashed and then going to texture it.

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #5 [Train, Wagon, Chapel Bake]

Today was a good day=) I unwrap and bake train, wagon and chapel. My texel density is around 500 px/m

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #6 [Houses Bake]

So today i bake 3 more houses. I know that it's not very good to do the roof like I do, but it works for me and looks fine

TheLittleJay

That's a very cool concept you've got yourself there, looking forward to seeing how it all turns out. 

It looks like the lighting is a major part of the ghost town, probably the main conponent of the atmosphere, so I'd personally suggest getting some lights into your blockout to see how it all looks. Best to see how your textures and what-not look in that lighting as your making it, rather than making them all in a vacuum.

Yura_Vorobiev

@TheLittleJay yes, your absolutely right. I planning to bring all main objects to the bake phase, after that setup light close to original i hope. And after start texturing everything so i can see how my textures work with light

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #7 [More Houses Bake + some light tweaks]

Made some more low polys: saloon, warehouse, well. Test substance livelink, powerful cool tool.

Also made some light tweaks and test lightmap density and bake

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #8 [House and gallow pole Bake]

So i finished last building low poly. Also bake gallow pole's. And tweak composition a little bit.

On the weekend i plan to start texturing everything and tweak light and maybe start some vegetation.

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #9 [Textures and Grass]

Today i started texturing, textures are still wip's, probably i'l change some of them later with final light.

Also sculpt and paint some grass

ThomasSykutera

Oh boy this is coming together really nicely. Definitely lookin' forward to seeing the final result! 

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #10 [More propses + Textures WIP + Some Substance Designer]

Today i made few more low poly propses (crates, barrels, cactuses)

Start texturing, all textures are still WIP

Also made draft wooden planks material for walls inside substance designer

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #11 [Oil lamp bake]

This week was a little busy with freelance work. But here is small baked prop: oil lamp

Yura_Vorobiev

Wip #12 [More baked propses]

Today at work I had some free time and made few more assets for more detalization. All assets except skeletons are baked low poly's

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Wip #13 [More Textures WIP + Horse skeleton]

Today i made more textures, still wip. And also add horse skeleton.
Tomorrow i probably will start making a landscape and work with composition

LoganTMT

I'd rebuild the locomotive and passenger car if I were you. First off it looks nothing like a real Steam Locomotive, and it's missing the tender.

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#14 [Create landscape + Few small props]

Today i made some landscape and rocking chair. Also place more barrels, crates and cactuses among the scene

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#15 [Substance Designer]

Small update on wooden walls material. Jacob Norris tutorial was super helpful in this

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#16 [Small light tweaks]

Made some light tests before going to work

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#17[More light tweaks]

Work with light a little bit more, still a lot of work to do. Also started vertex paint wood walls

pming

Hiya!

I *LOVE* your lighting! Very atmospheric...really captures both the "ghost" and the "fog" at the same time.

^_^

Paul L. Ming

Yura_Vorobiev

@pming thank you so much!! Keep tuned, hope later i can push my lighting to even more ghosty mood

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#18 [Some more propses]

I slightly improved the houses: add broken glass, also build floor

Also added bell pole and cart (my main ref for this was cart from HUNT Showdown by Matthias Wagner) Simulate cloth for cart inside marvelous designer, still need some tweaks inside Zbrush

And finally i build train platform, but still doubt whether i needs it or not. What do you guys think?

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#19[Graveyard modeling]

So today i made graveyard assets: few different fences and tombstones. Probably gonna change it a little if needed, also later i want to add actual graves and maybe one unearthed grave.

And experiment a little with train platform, assets placement are still in progress

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#20[Tumbleweed experiments]

Made real fast experimental tumbleweed  before going to work

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WIP#21[Saloon furniture]

I decide to create few simple assets for saloon interior: table, chair's and stool's.

My light will be not like in concept, because i have different light angle, but i'll try to come up with something interesting in lighting it

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#22 [Chapel furniture]

Today i made few propses for chapel interior: bench, pulpit, and door

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP #23 [Piano, barcounter, tree and some props placement inside UE]

Today i baked piano and barcounter, also create a tree(just simple splines)

Also place some more props around scene and play a little bit with light

yanpes

Hi Yura, that looks amazing! I love your frequent updates on this project. It gives a really nice breakdown of the process!

Yura_Vorobiev

Hi, @yanpes!
Thank you for such kind words and i'm glad that my updates are useful to you

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP #24[Textures]

Some textures here and there. Also made set of bottles for saloon

Ashervisalis

How many hours per day are you working on this? You've made a good deal of progress.

Yura_Vorobiev

Hello @Ashervisalis I try to work at least two hours a day, on weekends little more, near 6 hours. Right now I quit my job and have week before new job,so gonna work hard this week)

AlirezaMorgan

as a guy who loves horror games i'm really looking forward to see what you'll do with the scene
keep up the good work . looking good so far

yanpes

@Yura_Vorobiev: It's cool to see your momentum working on personal stuff! Keep it up!

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP #25[More textures + Some lanscape work]

Made some more textures improvements.

Also work a little bit with landscape, made roads and paths.

Add some fx-es from different unreal packages: fire, god-rays

Yura_Vorobiev

@AlirezaMorgan @yanpes thanks guys! I really appreciate your support!!

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#26[ Light tweaks + decals+ textures]

Today i upgrade some textures, also start decals placement. And made some light tweaks: postprocessing and fake lights

Joopson

I feel like the lighting's holding it back at the moment. Feels very flat, throughout most of it. And low contrast. Makes it hard to see all the hard work going into the props.

Check out how some other games do night scenes, and how concept artists and painters do them.

Here is a shot from Dishonored, that I think pulls it off nicely:



And a piece of, I think, concept art for the game, that has a great light mood with some contrast:

Yura_Vorobiev

@Joopson thank you a lot for you feedback, it's super helpful Today i try to improve my light 

WIP#27 [More light tweaks]

Today i try to improve my light. For my taste it is better than the previous variant. But i'm open for new feedbacks, so let me know what you guys think

Also i struggle with little problem: somehow my taken screenshots are slightly darken then the actual in engine picture, maybe someone know how to fix it?

Thanks a lot!

jStins

The lighting looks much better now and the forms are much more clear. It's maybe a wee over-bright now, but I'd leave that for a final post pass. You have a tricky scenario with this particular concept since there are no motivated light sources in the concept aside from the moon. 

yanpes

The overall read of the scene is much better with the new lighting! For me, the greenish mist / fog is a bit flat. Did you try working with some volumetrics on it?

I did some quick CC on the scene to make the light sources pop more (adds dynamic and more dramatic mood to the setting). What do you think?

Yura_Vorobiev

Thank you, @yanpes ! Yeah, i see what you mean, i will try to play more with light and color correction. Thanks! 

Yura_Vorobiev

WIP#28 [Testing some props render inside Unreal]

So i got a new great job as level artist. And I'll be a little busy, so there not gonna be a lot of updates unfortunately. But I still have a weekend's, and I'll try to make the maximum out of it.

I started to test scene for props render in unreal and that's what came of it

yanpes

Congratulations for the new position!

I really like the interior. Do the bottlesand glasses get textured or is the pale white on purpose? Keep it up!

Yura_Vorobiev

@yanpes thanks! Yes, bottles and glasses gonna be textured later, also some props textures also can be changed