FINISHED- Forest Tower - stylized scifi environment
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Hi everyone, so here is the latest environment I've been working on in my free time, Below you can find the first sketches I did to come up with the idea.
More images here : https://www.artstation.com/manuelfuentes/blog
I´m using UE4 for this one.
Here is the initial blockout in 3dsmax
For this cliffs I created the height map in substance designer and used it as a mask in zbrush to quickly get a base for the sculpt, after a little bit of polish this was the result.
More images here : https://www.artstation.com/manuelfuentes/blog
I´m using UE4 for this one.
Here is the initial blockout in 3dsmax
For this cliffs I created the height map in substance designer and used it as a mask in zbrush to quickly get a base for the sculpt, after a little bit of polish this was the result.
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-made stylized wood bark substance for the pine trunks
-created pine trees foliage variation and added color variation by object position in ue4 for the branches
-started vertex painting some grass and rock texture on the cliffs
-grass
still a long way to go , need to make a lot of different size rocks, more small shrubs and small plants, and also go back to the structure and finish all the hardsurface details and start texturing :S.
Comments and critique are welcome
So today I wanted to share some more progress on the scene. I tried to add a scifi looking energy beam effect to the inside of the structure, I tried out painting a couple of different maps in photoshop and the one that worked best was basically just a lot of spots and some pencil strokes, mixed out with an emmisive texture , a panner and some world position deformation this was the final result. Just kept changing and moving the settings on the material until finally after some experimentation I ended up with something that looked kinda cool. I still might have to add some particles with niagara on top of this to take it to the next level.
Until the next update, let me know what you think 😊.
Hi everyone, It's been a while since the last update, I've had little free time to work on the scene lately
, but I finally managed to make some progress. Spent last week unwrapping most of the elements and adjusting the lighting (previously I only had one huge stretched out point light with no shadows for the beam, and now I've placed a couple of spot lights on each level to get better shadow and lighting, also moved the sun and increased the intensity to get better contrast, and changed the bottom half color of the skylight to something lighter to get better visibility in the shadowed areas).
This past weekend I started adding some color and some basic metal texture (still need to spend more time working on it and creating some variations to vertex paint) I also created a basic decals and trim sheet to start adding some more details to all the elements, I only managed to do a couple of them last night but hopefully Ill finish all of them by the end of the week (fingers crossed). Let me know what you think, all comments, questions, advice and critiques are very welcome !
https://www.artstation.com/manuelfuentes/blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL4a1mJMIgE&t=1s