Store Front Environment
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Will be taking this concept thats up on big sandwich games and make it 
Also gonna add to it as just having one building is way to boring for me :P
Also gonna add to it as just having one building is way to boring for me :P
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If it turns out bangin' ill be sure to shove it in the art director's face for consideration when when are hiring.
AK
Good progress thus far. Keep it up.
anyway, way too saturated so far. this does look interesting though, keep it up.
Also agree... desaturate some.
the color pallete changed a bit too my dad told me the new color looks better but i think i should stick to the concept what does everyone think?
yeah i got a little trigger happy with the bloom, i think its becuase im one of those guys that loves the effect bloom makes :P
ill turn it down also will work on desaturaing it a bit more
I'd go with a lot more. The reference is a tan that's about 30% saturated, yours is a yellow sitting at almost 70%.
I like the railing too though.
I dont understand the rest in the latest pic though, insanely saturated and glowing almost, looks like the railing is floating in a scifi acid trip and not grounded together at all. I would desatureate it probably by atleast 50-70%. How are you bosting it, directly though the diffuse or by boosting the post processing levels? If its PP like the bloom, I would suggest going in the other direction.
In terms of lighting I would have a medium amount of yellow/tan in the color of your key light and let that add some saturation and help harmoize it all. then focus on bloom after you get some nice highlights and surface material definition. I agree that some bloom can make scenes look dope, just make sure its a subtle final touch rather than something used to try to make stuff look good right out the gate.
some stuff I would suggest studying that could prove a useful reference is: the 1st couple levels fo R6 vegas, Socom: confrontation (heheh shameless plug) , or resident evil 5 (especially this as its mindblowingly gorgeous in most areas) also, that hl2 insurgency mod had some nice middle eastern stuff and its free.
keep at'er man, the normals on the pillars and railing are looking great so far, I would reccomend focuing on communicating and elaborating the details in the concept eg: scraps of trash, dusty road etc to realy take it to the next level. seeing how you have progressed latley in the past few months I bet you can really knock this one outta the park dude.
cheers.
besides that the peice looks nice, id push the destruction and wear and tear though make it look more nartural.
i couldent agree with you more, for my next piece i want to think it through a little before i start anything as i want to diversify my portfolio.
anyways heres and update didnt work on the lighting at all i just took mostly all the bloom out, road textures is just a bsp model with a random texture on it so thats why its so ugly :P
been looking at the concept more and realised i fucked up on the color choice as you can see with this image so ill be redoing the diffuse maps on the building texture:
work is really getting in my way, might need to fix that :shifty:
with the colour tones, it would be nice to get the saturation in the shadows and protected parts while making the exposed washed out and sunbaked, maybe a two layer diffuse and blend with verts for the main wall material
i might see what i can do, gonna play around with the color a bit more, worke don the barrier and colors today after work im burnt out lol hope to get more done tommorow:
I agree with se7ered though. The paint right now is sticking out to much (not physically sticking out) but it seems like its not blending in the way it should, is it a decal? Maybe try mess around with the blending in unreal, additive or something.
Moar!!!