Beach Bunny Van - UE4 Environment Art

Vasilesco

Hello guys and girls,


After a year at Ubisoft as Junior Environment Artist, I decided to start a new project in which to apply everything I learned, from composition to light and textures. I came across a very interesting concept made by Philip Varbanov, called "Beach Bunny Van" and after I got his approval, I started to make a blockout and at the same time some highpoly for props.
I'll make an update every day with new stuff, problems and if I have time I'll make some videos showing how I made different props, textures or effects in the EU4
Until then, I'll leave here Philip's concept and the pretty rough blockout I've done.

Cya,
Daniel.

Vasilesco

little update:

I made the lowpoly and the normal map for the penny board. I will texture it after I decide what color palette I want to use. Here are some screenshots from Painter.

Vasilesco

I'm back from my little seaside vacation and I post here the material that I made these days after comeback. I was inspired by the sand textures made by Josh Lynch and Lukas Ponik and I tried to make something similar. This is the material made to show rough sand that is near the road and the stony field and after this I will make another one much softer to be used near the water. Hope you like it and if you have any C&C I'm glad to hear them.
Arstation Blog Post for Marmoset Viewer: https://www.artstation.com/vasilesco/blog/NQEL/8252018beach-bunny-van-ue4-environment-art

7bajwa

Hi Vasilesco,

The concept looks cool. I see you already started with the props and textures.
    Are you done with the block out? what style are you going to follow Semi-realistic, Stylize or realistic? once the style is final then we can go with the proportions and everything.
     What I will suggest finish the block out first. create the list of the assets and create placeholder models according to the size and proportions. Place them in the unreal scene according to the concept. Try to follow the concept as close as possible.
    maybe you are already done with all those things. I am guessing all from what you have posted. why I am forcing to finalize the style before because it will help you late to make everything look uniform. either you can follow the concept closely if you are not comfortable with a particular style.
    Like for the skateboard you have posted is totally different from the concept. Both proportions and Style wise. Laso for the table and chair have different scales. Many props are missing.
    I won't say more at this stage as you will post some updated screenshot. Kindly post one screenshot in the same camera angle also. Why  I am saying all things now only because it is very crucial to plan everything earlier then hassle later.
Hope it will help.
Aman

Vasilesco

7bajwa said:

Hi Vasilesco,

The concept looks cool. I see you already started with the props and textures.
    Are you done with the block out? what style are you going to follow Semi-realistic, Stylize or realistic? once the style is final then we can go with the proportions and everything.
     What I will suggest finish the block out first. create the list of the assets and create placeholder models according to the size and proportions. Place them in the unreal scene according to the concept. Try to follow the concept as close as possible.
    maybe you are already done with all those things. I am guessing all from what you have posted. why I am forcing to finalize the style before because it will help you late to make everything look uniform. either you can follow the concept closely if you are not comfortable with a particular style.
    Like for the skateboard you have posted is totally different from the concept. Both proportions and Style wise. Laso for the table and chair have different scales. Many props are missing.
    I won't say more at this stage as you will post some updated screenshot. Kindly post one screenshot in the same camera angle also. Why  I am saying all things now only because it is very crucial to plan everything earlier then hassle later.
Hope it will help.
Aman

Thank you Aman for your feedback and sorry for the late answer. I tottaly forgot abou this thread but somehow I managed to follow the same idea that you had. I managed to make the blockout as much as possible and tried to add my style following just the idea of the concept. I don't want to make it exactly like in the concept and just to take the assets, the feeling and after that to play with the level art in a way to give some narative to the environment.
The narative right now is this: Three friends were in California to surf and one of them had a shark accident ( in the screenshots you can see the surfboard that has a big shark bite). And after this shark attack they run with their friend to the first hospital and leave everything behind ( a bottle of beer from which is dripping some liquid, a joint (cigarette) that is still burning, the boombox that is singing some 80'  songs and so on.
Right now I'm working on the exterior of the camper.
The shaders are just to have an idea and I will change when the whol composition will be done.
Here are some screenshots: