[Finished] Purple House - Stylized/Handpainted UE4 Environment

battleyak

Hi Polycount! Long time lurker, first time poster I just finished a UE4 environment art project and wanted to share it. 



Original concept art by OKU - Artstation


And some of my texture sheets


I have more closeups and a video up on my Artstation showing some of the animations in the scene like the windmill, foliage, and little wind wisps

I really enjoyed handpainting the textures for the scene and I spent a lot of time trying to bring all the great shapes from the concept art into my models. I also learned a great deal about Unreal 4 as I experimented with lighting, materials, foliage, particles, and blueprints! 

Thank you so much for looking! Feel free to ask any questions, I'm still learning but I'm happy to help  

AllyAlbon

Gorgeous!  Really love your handpainted textures, very nicely done indeed

battleyak

Thank you so much @AllyAlbon they were so fun to paint!

Geno527

Really cool !

battleyak

Thank you @Geno527

Skinner3D

This is really neat. Could you give a brief explanation on your process for making one of those textures? I think I am going to have to do something similar with what I am working on.

battleyak

Hi @Skinner3D ! Sorry for the late response. I started the textures by color picking off the concept art to lay down some chunks of color variety keeping it very loose. I then use the Hue/Saturation/Brightness adjustment to tone down the saturation and being the colors more in line. Once I was happy with my base colors I started painting in my basic shapes working from big to small. As I painted in my shapes I also made sure to keep an eye on my contrast and painted out any spots that felt like they had too much contrast (especially for the tileables textures).

I used one of the oil painting brushes that comes with Photoshop and a square brush I made to do my painting. I usually work with 100% opacity and about 5-20% flow (I'm pretty heavy handed 😅).

I hope this helps a little bit! If there's a specific texture you want to see a breakdown of with images please let me know and I can put that together once my computer is up and running

Skinner3D

I am still trying to figure out how you managed to get that tiled roof texture onto the roof in all of its shapes and curves. I have stayed away from stylized (to my detriment) because of a lot of technical issues I could see. You managed to showcase a complete version of every single one of those issues and I am trying really hard to assimilate that knowledge, lol.

battleyak

@Skinner3D oooh yeah that was not easy 😅 once I get my computer up and running I'll grab some screenshots of my model and, most importantly, my unwrap to show you how I used the texture

For reference this entire scene was built for this one shot so I focused my modeling to get all the right shapes for the camera I had set up in Unreal. The "back end" is empty. My method was to make adjustments to model, import to Unreal, take a screenshot from my camera and paste into Photoshop and compare directly to the concept. Did this a ton until I got the shapes right for the camera view, it helped keeping all my screenshots in one PSD file so I can write notes for myself and compare to my previous iteration. I also spent A LOT of time unwrapping, probably more than I spent modeling. 

I hope this helps a bit! I'll get some screenshots and draw up a visual tutorial as soon as I can

TurtleLearns3D

I watched your breakdown on stylizedstation. It was really helpful to see how you do the trim sheets and textures. The texture part was so satisfying to watch, lol. ^^ 

battleyak

Hi @TurtleLearns3D ! Thank you so much for the kind words 😊. I'm really glad you liked the video and found it helpful hehe doing the texturing was definitely my favorite part!