[STAGE] BlazBlue, HALLOWEEN, Udell_I + System404

system404

Going to try this, I got my buddy Udell who will be the better half of the team. We are going with the BlazBlue Halloween stage, we will be re-imagining it as a New Orleans Voodoo stage. Changing the castle to something more akin of a plantation house/victorian church. The pumpking arboretum will be voodoo heads instead.

Here's the original stage:




Some ref images:



Here's some initial sketches:

system404

Here's some concepts for the new lamp:

FirstKeeper

Best lamps evar!

Inpw

Amazing lanterns! I like those crocodiles.

Tyrone70

I like this already. I feel like the 1st lamp makes the most sense, but the 2nd one looks the best, imo.

system404

Thanks for the comments guys! Small update. We are going to need plenty of iron rod fences. Here's some sketches.


3 and 5 are my fav so far.

Maph

Gorgeous lanterns! My vote's on B.
Loving fences 5 and 6.

garyriley31

really like lamp B and fences 3 and 5 are also my fave.

gwad

very nice dude !
love your ref and your concept ^^
i prefer the lamp B and fence 2 and 4 (i like the spider web )

MattQ86

Fence 2 rules and I think it'll read the best from further away.

fearian

Fence 3 rules and I think it'll read the best from further away.



e: fence 5 for second best!

Gannon

Whoa, How'd I miss this one. I'm loving all your concept work, it's fantastic. I really like the 3rd and 5th fences. I'd be concerned about how the others would mip map from far distances.

Can't wait to see the models.

Sebeuroc

Cool work so far, I'm interested to see where you take this. Personally I'm a fan of fence 5.

GoSsS

Lampost B and fence 5 are my favs !
Can't wait to see more of this one.

system404

I lost two weeks because of work so I really need to start jumping in on modeling.
Here's the latest style on the main manor, I have to work on the blocking next.

Wanted to go with a "monster house" vibe on the manor.

fearian

It's giving me two fingers! >:0

system404

Quick blocking, still missing some elements but it's mostly there. I'm going to have to force perspective on this because I don't want LODs to kill the quality. Once I put all the pieces in UDK I can play with scale a bit.

mkandersson

Love it! Great style and those lamps are gorgeous! Like nr 5 the best.
Will be following this for sure!

Udell_I

Hey everyone i got a change to start a gator for the lvl Just a W.I.P so far hope to have it completely done by tomorrow. Comments and critz always welcome and appreciated Thanks

Mert

cool looking scene I'll keep a tag on this one!

system404

Started messing around with the materials in Unreal. Two main things I wanted to get down was remapping normals so they showed the fullest at light termination. The second thing was to have the shadow area display an emmissive. Nothing too complex. All textures made just for testing purposes.

mkandersson

Will you have realistic texturing or toon style, like your concept art?
Cause that would look awsome!

d1ver

Love your concepts! Nice to see some 3d progress.
And the material is really interesting. Would you mind elaborating on how you made the emissive in the shadows, please?
Anyway good stuff. Keep it up!

system404

mkandersson -- We want a realistic style a la Claymation environments. It needs to fell like a realistic hand made set. I'm thinking one screenshot normal but I want a second shot with a black lighting setup, very similar to the scene Jack confronts Oogie Boogie in "Nightmare Before Christmas." Our material emissive still needs work in order to get that look.

d1ver -- I made a light vector and normal vector going to a dot product and have that going to the UV parameter of a gradient map I made, and I use that as a mask. I'll post a screenshot of it later.

fearian

system404 wrote: »

The second thing was to have the shadow area display an emmissive. Nothing too complex. All textures made just for testing purposes.

This is a really neat idea! Nice!