Dalaran and Ulduar

turpedo

Hi everyone,

Blizzard came to my school the other week to check out some portfolios for their summer internship program. I've always been a huge fan of their products and art so I along with a partner(Jay Hwang) decided to make some Warcraft scenes for our portfolios.

Both scenes are render in the Unreal Editor.

Our school has mainly taught us how to texture for next gen hyper real style games so this is our first stab at hand painting textures from scratch. Any critiques would be awesome thanks!

PS. Ulduar is still WIP

vj_box

I really like the second image,very epic,good to see that unreal is pushed in a different angle.There is good personality to the environments.I would expect glowing lamps in the second palace image,as it kinda lacks the source of lights.except the ambient moon i believe.You can do some cool emissive materials in unreal ed for the lamps which will add more attributes to the env.I would also love to see the wire shots and the construction sheets of these.

Cheers
Vj

PixelGoat

Very well done! I almost thought that you were posting some blizzard images

00Zero

this looks pretty weak so far. it could use a lot of improvement. you should add the following to make it better:

1. falling snowflakes. from the looks of things, youre using unreal editor 3. make a nice particle system of snow falling.

2. use a camera and matinee to get a nice truck in.

3. come back to fullhouse. i cant take care of your daughters forever.

Snight

Kelvin, you're a freak. Go get a job at Blizzard or something. These are sweet man, nice work.

turpedo

vj_box: Thanks for the compliments. It definitely has been interesting working on a new art style with UT3. I do agree about the lamps. In the game there are these little light orbs that float around in certain spots. I want to improve the lighting and I think that is what will do it thanks. I'm in the middle of working on the construction sheets atm but I'll post some stuff as soon as I get them done. For the most part everything is 512 x 512 textures and in small modular pieces.

PixelGoat: Thanks Pixelgoat! That makes my classmate and I very happy to see

00Zero: I'll do what you ask for if you put the poster up of you know what on your wall

Snight: Yoooo man what a surprise! Thats the dream man! Thanks for the compliments buddy, when are you going to invite me to SD? its only been a few years or so haha. Hope all is well with you over there.

Ruz

really nice stuff guys. make me want to build some environments

00Zero

so is Everfrost Powder used for anything?

brokendragon

Well you nailed Ulduar for sure. Don't have much to say about that one. You even got the cloud textures right.

Few things about Dalaran, though. First off, the lighting seems a little static to me. I haven't had a chance to use the Unreal 3 Engine yet, but you can make the light rays shining in a bit softer with some falloff it'd really improve the piece. The other thing is the buildings. I play WoW, and I'm in Dalaran quite a bit. I know that's what the buildings are supposed to look like, but you made them a bit thicker all around, and it makes some of them look a bit...phallic. Now looking at it, I realize that they probably made the spires in Dalaran that skinny to avoid this :P

If you ever do another piece for Dalaran, keep that in mind. Other than that, great job, man. Where are all the people standing around on their mammoths?

turpedo

Its vendor trash I know this now

turpedo

Warning - Image Heavy

I've got a couple more things to show now. A lighting pass and a few construction pages. The textures used for these assets are 512 x 512 except for the mountain(1024).

I'll ask my partner to post his construction shots as well. We pretty much copied pieces around to create the structures that we have. They look kind of boring by themselves seeing as how they are just wall meshes hehehe.

fuxer

very nice textures! they all have alot of volume and look very blizzard like.
Great work!

Jaytown

Hey guys, I'm the other guy that work with Turp on this scene... It was quiet a learning experience! Here are some of the assets I made and worked on during this project, all crits are welcome!

J

00Zero

ill kill you....you toppled me.
next fight club will be MINE!

turpedo

00Zero wrote: »

ill kill you....you toppled me.
next fight club will be MINE!

I think you mean "OURS" fryboy

Orb

good job guys, looks very nice.

vj_box

looks really really good,appreciate for posting the asset renders.They look cool.Wish you all the best for the future endeavors.

Vj

Mazvix

Not bad guys. The asset's textures need more lovin'. If you look at Blizzard's in game there are color variations within the textures. Also the shadows are NEVER EVER black. They are always the complementary colors of the Mid tones. Definitely add more variation of highlights in the texture itself before you depend too much on the spec map.

As for the bricks or the groves, it needs shadows and highlights, and where the light hits on the edges an even brighter color than the original highlight (to show form).

Good Luck!