[UE4][WIP]Old Western General Store

Anaxid

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/e0d3qG
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/e0adLZ
Breakdown: https://80.lv/articles/old-western-general-store-in-ue4/

I've been working on this general store for a while and I'm at the last stage of the project, playing with post-processing and lighting angles, trying to get them just right. I'd appreciate any thoughts you might have about the colors and other effects that might help present this even better!



Also, here's a variation with a different sun angle and some rain:

FreneticPonies

That looks pretty good! Nice job

MarcoAntonio

Amazing job @Anaxid!

ChrisFraser

Oh wow, awesome job. Everything looks like it belongs in the scene and it even tells a bit of a story. Nice work

Alex_J

This is a pretty stupid critique, but I want to mention that "farm eggs" feels a bit anachronistic. It feels like modern, hipster focused ad verbiage, IMO. I'd expect just "eggs" or maybe for some more character a chalkboard with hand scrawled letters reading "laruppin good vittles and fixin's served daily" or something like that. That's more like a restaurant but, whatever, I'm sure you get the point.

But, awesome work.

ChrisFraser

lol, ya, I wouldn't think they would need to differentiate between free run organic and caged 

Ashervisalis

Oh no way, I just saw your post on Reddit. Looks really cool

Anaxid

Oh wow, thank you guys! And I accept the critique, you're probably right. It's just something I've seen on reference images and used it without really thinking twice about it. Oh well.

EricElwell

I love it! I agree with the hipster "farm fresh" comment. A few other crits:

- The blood tells a story, but that's a lot of blood. Looks like they slaughtered a goat. I might suggest making it more subtle especially down in dirt/mud and steps. I like the trail from the porch post to the door handle, gives a nice vector. Though it still might be a bit heavy handed on the porch post.

- This texture is driving me crazy  


- While I like what you're doing thematically with the muted color palette, I might suggest adding bits of color, perhaps a painted trim on the signs or something. It's a fine line to tread with this palette (would probably want to keep with your blues and golds)... a little saturation and you're really leading the eye to those points. You are using this to effect with the blood and fruit, but I think you could get more out of it. I'd like to see you experiment more with some small portions of localized colors. That said, what you are doing is already working well for this genre. So this is less of a "crit" and more of a hunch that you can squeeze a little more juice out of it. 

Crank it up to 11  

Anaxid

You can check out a breakdown of this scene in the following 80lv article:

https://80.lv/articles/old-western-general-store-in-ue4/
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/e0adLZ