Hand Painting a Jungle

mxlplxn

Hey Polycount!

Haven't posted in a long time, thought i'd rejoin yall! hopefully with something everyone will enjoy

So I'm working on an environment based loosely on a New Zealand forest while I learn to hand paint textures.

some reference and ideation.




The initial plan, without foliage(i've since decided to tone the saturation down a lot)




I'll be working in Photoshop, Max, and UDK, and I've already spent some time on this, but I'm totally open to critiques and ideas, and i'll try to give yall some progress from before this post so you can see where I'm headed hopefully.



So, I'm making a few tileables for the landscape, so far the plan is to have:

1 Dirt/Rock
1 Rocks/Moss
1 Moss
1 Grass
1 Smooth Stone

here's what I made initially:







and here are what they are now respectively, with some suggestions from friends and my teacher:










My Grass so far is:



and Stone:



Which I can't stand lol.

Also as a side note, I was thinking about trying for a more classic fantasy oil paint look by washing out my textures abit, and adding more color to the shadows



Looking forward to getting yalls feedback!

BrontoThunder

I like the textures a lot more before you changed them, they're so vibrant and have great depth.

chrisradsby

The initial feeling I get is that you need to have the textures a little bit more vibrant with more depth, right now they're kind-of bland. I guess it also depends on what kind of lighting you're going to have going on.

mxlplxn

Thanks BrontoThunder and chrisradsby! I've seriously been staring at these so long i didnt even notice lol

heres some layer adjustments to try and get things back on the track!

BrontoThunder

Oh man, already just a world of difference. Nice work, look forward to seeing this progress.

Stromberg90

mm, much better they lacked some contrast before.

mxlplxn

Added some color to the shadows, i'm pretty much done with this one, I need to finish these so i can move on to the trees and ground cover



Added some more detail to the moss, may be too much, well see, gotta clean it up now


and just for the sake of context, this is where im headed with colors shaped, thats stuff, ill post the textures for the trees and the models once they are a bit more developed. This is in Max btw, sorry its hideous lol


Thanks for the feedback, PLEASE KEEP IT COMING !!!

Jessica Dinh

Hey, this is really nice! The environment has a fun and funky feel to it - I especially love the root texture for the tree. It's kinda weird and swirly, but I think it works [: Excited for more

Gannon

I really like the stone texture you've got there.

I feel like the scene how ever has some weird scale issues, the stones feel like they should be a lot smaller and the trees scale feels weird also. Maybe the palms or what ever are too small?

If they're supposed to be a smaller type of palm try putting more clusters of them of varied sized; instead of stand alone trees.

mxlplxn

Thanks Jessica, im quite proud of the roots currently, gonna try to accentuate them more

Gannon, I definitely agree with you here, the tress are mostly place holders at this point, so much work left to be done on them! as for the scale of the stones, i'm currently working on a way to size them down that works with the rest of the textures.

Mclarke92

Looking good man