Sketchbook: Victor Ullmann

victorullmann

Hi Guys, starting this topic to follow my progression of my studies as a enviroment artist. 
Feel free to comment and critique. I will be happy with any feedback that will make me improve my work.

Here is a foliage that I work on.

I created the base mesh of the leafs on Zbrush, arranged them in maya, and baked and texture in Substance Designer.









Thanks;

victorullmann

New updates on the foliage and the lights on the UE4.









thks.

victorullmann

I made two new materiala with Substance Designer, moss and bark. 

Here is the moss material apply on the terrain

victorullmann

After four months of studies on my free time I finished the scene. I made alot of improvements on the lights and on the materials of the foliage. 

I used just two lights, a Area Light with a HDRi map and a Direction light, both as movable.  To improve the lights i watched the Unreal 4 Lighting Academy videos on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grN5Yd55UIM].

I changed the materials on the Stone House to make more affect by the time. And apply the moss material on the close stones, just to got the mood of the scene. And applied the my bark material on the tree pines.








More on ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/QdxbZ

Thanks.

victorullmann

Hi guys, has been a while since I don't post here. But I think is time to comeback. Since febuary I'm doing the mentorship program with Ryan Benno and I started to do a new scene with inspiration of Taxi Drive movie, The Division and Marvel's Spider Man game. It's a New York's Alley in the 70's. The main goal of this project it's work with modular pieces, trim sheets and tile textures. Any C&C it's welcome. Thanks.

victorullmann

Hey!

I finished my submission to Artstation Challenge - The Legend of King Arthur.

Check it out!




You can find more about the process here: https://www.artstation.com/contests/the-legend-of-king-arthur/challenges/69/submissions/45784

victorullmann

Hi guys! Now after the Artstation challenge I'm back to scene that I was working on before.

This week I worked on the material for the old posters, check it out.

bed

Hey Victor, great stuff here! I actually love back alleys, and yours is looking great!

Small nitpicking. The green graffiti feels a bit too clean for me, and is grabbing all of my attention. The scale of the dumpster and trash cans feels a little small? Maybe you could put a base character in there to compare with. I also think some of the placement is a little too perfect, when the dump truck picks up the container it wouldn't place it down back perfectly straight for example.

I look forward to seeing more! 

victorullmann

Thank you for the feedback @bed ! I'll look for this stuffs.

PixelMasher

awesome thread, really like the lighting in those last shots!

victorullmann

Thank you @PixelMasher

MatheusDalla

Awesome scenes man, i really enjoy the way the posters are placed over the brand painted on the wall. These little narratives that give more depth to a scene.

victorullmann

Hey Guys! I updated some assets on the scene and made a new daytime lighting setup .

I really like this new light because make the scene much more photo realistic.
For the next steps I want to update some materials, the buildings on the background and also add more props and banners to the stores facades.

Ged

nice scene and lighting, the shadow on the big white wall is quite strongly cyan, makes me think you have some ambient light that is slightly too saturated. The shadow from the neon sign in the foreground looks almost black, perhaps that's just the dark bricks but seems odd to me. looking forward to seeing this finished

snake85027

Great work. On your last image, for your buildings do you have multiple tile materials on them? Im always curious on how people tackle buildings.

victorullmann

Thank you guys! 

@snake85027 Here's a video showing the use of tiling texture and world aligned texture to break de repetition and blend materials.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q80nP4GhQJQ

snake85027

thanks for the video. Do you ever use the Hierachical instanced static mesh within the bp actors? really great for performance.

victorullmann

Hey Guys!

I made some updates on the scene, add more trash on the ground and new signs and posters to the store fronts.

But the most important update is the PBR valitator that I used on the project made by Harrison Eilers. It's a post processing material that give the information of wrong values of color and roughness. VERY usefull. With this material I improved the photo realistic look of the scene.

More information here: https://www.artstation.com/harrisoneilers/blog/ADnb/011-pbr-validate-for-ue4 

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AFTER:






thx!

victorullmann

Hey Guys! 

I alredy finished the scene but I want to show the shader that I made for de fake interiors of the windows.





I use the same technique used in Marvels Spider-Man. You can check out the artstation tutorial from one of Insomniac's technical artists: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/W290vD



More shots and videos on my Artstation page: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xz4ER2

thank you!

victorullmann

Whats up guys! 

I'm working on a new scene that I started on the CGMA Modular Environments course but I was unable to finish in the ten weeks of the course. Now I'm back to my studies and I want to add more props to the scene and work more with lighting and composition.

Here's a preview. Any critique and comments are welcome o/



Thank you!