[UDK] Darksiders inspired environment

Zpanzer

So yeah, after having way to much time of doing game art since I've been busy with my arch viz internship, I've finally decided to step on and start out doing an environment from some Darksiders concept art I found online.

Anyways, this is my first time doing anything in this scale, and quality(atleast what I hope to achieve).

I've started doing a basic flesh out, while there still are some inaccuricies here and there, I think I'm getting there, still gonna tweak the proportions a bit and figure out how to change the FOV inside UDK.

The concept art I'm working from(all credits are due to the dude who made this piece):


The blockout so far:


I'm here to learn, so please tear it apart and help me become better at this

ayoub44

hi
your blockout is good .. but if you see at the concept , the main house is big but in your blocking looking a little bit smaller and make it up a little

keep it up

aajohnny

Not bad at all, I think that the path is too crooked. Other then that keep it up!

nordahl154

aajohnny wrote: »

Not bad at all, I think that the path is too crooked. Other then that keep it up!

This. In the reference picture it just looks like there was a big chunk of bridge that fell, and overall it's pretty straight.

Rockley Bonner

when you do somthing like this try and beat it( eg; this is cool but it would look better like this!) I know that an employer would hate you for this and you will most likely fall short but it makes the process funner and makes you think outside the box.

Zpanzer

Okay, so I decided to redo the blockout as the scale really felt off to me, so heres version 2:


Again, tear it apart! I want to make sure my blockout is there before moving on!

Zpanzer

shameless bump as I would love more opinions on this!

Ampaist

i like the 2nd version over the first version. their are more elements in the scene it adds abit more interest.

1 question is the concept above ground or below.. from bits of the far ground i would say below but u could also argue that its storm clouds.

Zpanzer

I believe they're stormclouds. One of my friends pulled out his art book from Darksiders and found the concept there, it was named "Cross roads" which refers to one of the starting zones of the game... which unfortunaly doesnt look anything like the concept :<

aajohnny

It looks a lot better Zpanzer

G3L

Heh, I'm finally getting around to this game so it'll be interesting to see how your scene turns out! Best of skill!

And yeah this doesn't really remind me of the crossroads level in the game (the concept) at this point in the game for me, but I'm usually never surprised when the game doesn't end up looking more so like the concept.

Version 2 does look a lot better. I guess my only gripe would be the left side of the middle road and how there are two stones that fit in the concept but on yours I see one but not the other. The scale seems off a bit in that area. Other than that, looks good man!

Zpanzer

Update time!
So after spending friday and saturday getting drunk and mending my hangover, I've finally pulled myself together and started working on my high poly parts. Starting out with the dome on the main building.

So this is where i stand at the moment, just before pulling it inside zbrush to mess it up and make it fit the destroyed version in the concept.

As always criticism is more then welcome!

SaferDan

That dome is looking bad ass!

nordahl154

That looks amazing! Although the big dome is made of glass instead of brick. And if you were to continue with brick I suggest you make all bricks the same size (note the smaller bricks on the smaller thing above the big dome).

Zpanzer

At first I thought it was glass too, but after some research I wasnt able to find any major building dome that was constructed with glass, so I went with copper tiles instead.

bbob

the German Reichstag has/had a glass dome.


Image from 1945 showing the old structure. It looks very fancy and modernly artsy today, so beware of that if you wanna hunt for reference.

Looking good though, mate!

DarKMessiah34

Hey, is there any way we can get a break down of how you did your dome? It would be really helpful.

Thanks

SnakeDoctor

It almost looks like the dome that was made by Kevin Johnstone.

Ampaist

SnakeDoctor - i was thinking that as well lol
looks good so far man keep it up

Zpanzer

Its true that Kevin Johnstone's art has been a large inspiration in that dome, heres the ref's I've been using:


As for modelling tehcniques, I can do a little video later on

Baddcog

note how the tiles on the refs shrink towards the top of the dome (on the model at least). I think they'd look a lot better like that.

chrisradsby

Nice work so far, looking forward to more progress

Zpanzer

I noticed on the cg pieces by kevin he choose to do that, but I found that real domes using copper tiles dont shrink but rather cut them them off, I guess its a matter of integrity and production costs. Anyways, I decided to go with the ones that cut off at the edges.

Someone asked for some coverage on how I did different parts of the model, so I decided to throw around a 15 min video that explains some of the techniques.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiccLgOHUSs[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5YttKp414Q[/ame]

Sorry for my english, it ain't the best

ajr2764

Good concept to work with and I like the composition of the 2nd version you did. Thanks for sharing those quick little videos, always good to see techniques behind some amazing stuff. Look forward to seeing more progress.

XRevan23

dome looking pretty good so far, can't wait to see the environment when its finished, also thanks for the videos, they will help a lot. Keep up the good work.

Zpanzer

No updates to show so far... Having spend the last 3 days sick and having a buttload of stuff to catch up on at work has killed my interest in doing 3d when I get home. I'll be sure to get started again in the weekend unless I end up dead drunk somewhere(again)

Glad you guys liked the videos, I'll be sure to do more if the interest is there. Also, I would love more criticism

Jernej

just wonderfull . Great videos. Learned a lot from them. There is really limited amount of tutorial resources out there for env artists. Hope this will change :P

Rezghenth

Loving the dome, keep it up!

Ack Master

this is a great page lots of useful info on here