Fishermans House [FINISHED] [UE4]

ThisisVictoriaZ

Hello~ 
My name is Victoria and this is my latest project! This is going to be a stylized fishermans house modeled in Maya and rendered in UE4!
Concept art: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/QraBvr
Im excited to start this new environment, here is the block out so far! My goal for this project is to make something job worthy, so any comments and critiques would be super helpful.

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Final grey box! 

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Been working on starting to add more details to the house, and adjusted the environment color. Weird light bakes are because I havent touched the uvs yet

DavidCruz

doesn't want feed back.(from me it makes sense, i tried, good luck.)

ThisisVictoriaZ

The past few days I've been working in sculpting highpoly planks for the short and long boards on the dock! The plan is to keep things minimal to match the style of the concept, also at some point I'll have to make unique boards for certain areas.

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Ready to retopo these boards! There are boards for the docks and also for the roof~

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Retopo is done! It took me a while to get everything looking really nice, I wanted to make sure that I got really clean topology which is something I defiantly need to practice more

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Unwrapped, baked, and almost fully textured! These are the planks for the dock and the roof. The roof looks very wet with some dry patches in the concept so I tried to mimic that in the textures. 

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Heres what the planks look like in ue4!

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I also Made the beams on top of the house higher poly, added in some detail and bevels

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High poly fish sign

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High poly models of the chimney and also the bricks to go on the chimney

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Final bricks and chimney sculpts! Decided to make things a lot simpler to match the concept better

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Final chimney for real this time lol after revisiting the concept decided to change the shape of the top part, pretty happy with this now

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Chimney is textured, onto the fish sign next!

KW_Arts

Hey there @ThisisVictoriaZ ,really nice progression going on here, its always nice to see continuous screenshots of the development cycle! I really like the wood sculpts but the lighting in the scene is causing a lot of that stylised sculpted information to get completely lost, so I would say just maybe add a few more reflections/rebounds in those areas so that it reads better! or perhaps a slight reposition of the camera?

Everything else is coming along really nicely, can't wait to see the final renders!  

I'm looking for some feedback myself so if you have the time I would really love to hear your feedback on my recent forum of my personal project I just finished. thanks!

ThisisVictoriaZ

@KW_Arts thanks for the feedback and encouragement!! I'll try playing around with the camera so you can see more of that  sculpting detail. I'll take a look at your thread

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Been working on the fish sign. Dont know if im 100% happy with it yet ...

Frankythebeast

Great progress so far

ThisisVictoriaZ

@Frankythebeast thanks!

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Did a massive rework of this prop in response to some feedback I got, I think it looks a lot better now! I also made the scene in ue4 a bit brighter, I think it was too dark before. 

                                

Joopson

That fish sign looks immeasurably better; really great work on that! Can't wait for more.

ThisisVictoriaZ

@Joopson thank you so much! 

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Got started on the chair!

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working on this, if anyone has any tips on how to make the corners of this cut out part on the top look nicer please lmk!

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Current progress! Added more wood grains and made more adjustments to help this chair look like really nice and stylized wood 

Frankythebeast

good work on that chair 

ThisisVictoriaZ

@Frankythebeast thanks! 

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Chair is baked and textured! I wanted to make sure I kept it simple since its kind of small in the scene too many details would probably make it too busy. Also worked on brightening the scene and I have a temporary water material in there for the time being. 

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Unwrapped and added tillable texture to the walls on the house!

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Wood texture for various wooden things in the scene! I also changed the lighting to be 100% dynamic, it brightened the environment a lot but helped with some weird dark areas on my planks

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High poly and first bake of rocks to go in the lake! 

Mixsup

This is looking great so far and has a really clean and consistent art style. I agree with Joopson, re-working the vegetation on the fish sign did wonders for the prop, the painted-in shadows and highlights make it more readable. The sculpted plank set looks good, there's a nice mix of shapes and sizes to work with. I'm also digging that chair and the sculpted rocks.

In regards to the house's wooden plank tiling texture, I think the large spacing inbetween each plank might be throwing the scale of the scene off- reducing the size of those bevels and pinching the planks closer together should help. I'd also suggest making the planks vary in size a little more.

Keep plugging away at this one, you're making good progress!

ThisisVictoriaZ

@Mixsup Thanks for your thoughtful comment! Ill play around with the texture a bit more, i made it in substance designer so it should be a super easy fix  

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Placed the rocks in the scene! Not sure if these are the final textures yet but I really wanted to see what they look like in ue4. Changed the camera angle slightly so its higher up and angled down. Also changed some of the focus settings on the camera so that the rocks and tree in the background actually look like they are far away instead of being perfectly in focus. Finally I changed the house's wooden plank texture so that there is a bit more tilling and the space between each plank is smaller!

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currently trying to figure out what to do about the color of the house wooden planks, these are the two things that ive tried so far. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Fjordreig

I personally like the cyan version. But I think the choice may depend on the final color of the environment behind. U can try light beige. Or better, pick up variants among color schemes like this one https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel. Triadic for example.

simonBreumier

Wow, cool work so far !

For the house color, I would go for the second one if you want to keep the same lighting as your concept (I think what makes this concept very strong is the big green/orange/blue triad).

For your wood texture maybe you could add a few more color variations to make it a bit less flat (this 80lvl gives good advices: https://80.lv/articles/001agt-004adk-stylized-boat-modeling-texturing-rendering/).

ThisisVictoriaZ

@simonBreumier @Fjordreig Thanks! After getting critiques here and a few other places literally everyone has said that I need to work on my lighting, so I guess that'll be next!

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I started working on improving the lighting! I found it super helpful when I made the concept greyscale, and then put greyscale of my renders next to it. I realized I had alot of issues with my lighting, but I think I got it pretty close. I also made a new water material and started working on the crate

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Lily pads and crates!

BradyJ

Love the progress so far! I like how you took the concept and made it grey to check your own lighting. Very good idea. Looking at that shot I would say to push the contrast between your light and dark areas to get more mood. Also the background in the concept is lighter than your shot. Maybe some exponential height fog is in order!

ThisisVictoriaZ

@BradyJ thanks! I agree I need to make the background lighter, I already have an exponential height fog too. It's something I'm trying to figure out, if you have any tips please lmk!

BradyJ

Hmm maybe try boosting it a bit? Also fog cards can be useful to pop out silhouettes of shapes in your scene. In your concept the fog is very thick behind the rocks in the background. Maybe you could add a few of those so you have some value changes in foreground mid ground and background.

ThisisVictoriaZ

@BradyJ thanks for the suggestion,  I hadn't thought of fog cards yet so I'll give it a try!

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Lower poly lily pad! The first picture is the new topology second picture is the old topology. Also desaturated the colors by quite a bit.

hublus

Hi there, I really like your progress so keep it up One thing that bothers me I can't clearly see what is the vibe of the scene. Dark water and background indicates gloomy atmosphere, but house itself feels like cute, happy place. I'm looking forward next updates

ThisisVictoriaZ

@hublus thanks! That's actually really interesting so thank you for your feedback. I am planning on adding moss that is a 3d object onto various parts of the scene including the house, but I'll try to figure out if theres anything else I can do to make everything look more cohesive!

shabba

If you were going for a 1 to 1 reproduction, some feedback might be:
- proportions are off, scale of some of the elements in relation to each other is not right
- background elements (trees) of yours is causing some tension with the hanging crate
- the trees arent far enough apart, or you havent faked atmosphere enough to provide the type of separation in the silhouettes to sell depth
- the colours are too saturated, maybe also lower luminance so they fit better together
- details of the fish sign are inconsistent with the rest of the style
- your green light contribution wont be as effective without a back wall of rocks to bounce off of

If you were going for your own take on the concept, then thats cool too! and some of those notes might still apply. Goodluck, keep after it!

ThisisVictoriaZ

@shabba those are some really helpful tips, thank you! I'm putting my own spin on most of these pieces, I think the concept is great but im having a lot of fun making my own art feel a bit unique. Still I think what you said makes sense and ill try to incorporate some of those things into my piece

Frankythebeast

@ThisisVictoriaZ This scene is coming along really nicely , nice progress