Sci Fi Indoor - UDK [SWTOR Fan Art]
polycounter lvl 8
So this is my latest environment. Took roughly 1.5 weeks. Concept is from Bioware from the new Star Wars game. (Website currently unavailable, should be up within the week). Lemme know any crits / what you guys think.
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As for the concept. Are you sure that's a drawing? It looks like a game enviro already to me.
And that's not a painting/concept, it's an in-game screenshot with a few elements painted in IIRC. You can even see the Anti-Aliasing in the original shot.
Something that bugs me is you simplified a lot of the really cool designs like the tanks and the computer terminals. You killed the shapes and design elements of them to make them simpler. Don't know why but it hurts the piece.
The original is really interesting and has some nice stuff in it. You are missing things like the overhead supports and rails that are in the scene, plus the scale differences, the differences I noted above.
I would have tried to stay a lot closer to the concept though.
The first thing I noticed about your environment is that the lighting and atmospherics are absolutely killing the overall feeling of the scene.
Your lighting is colorless, and it looks like you tried to light to room as evenly as possible. Take a look at your ceiling compared to the reference image. Notice how much more contrast there is in theirs compared to yours? Also, There is blue tint on some of the lights, and yellow on the other...and it creates a nice contrast. Also, the blue makes the area feel more scifi/metallic/open and cold, but your lighting isn't doing any of those things. Also, if you haven't, you could try adding some bloom to get the lit areas to glow a little bit. Right now they just don't look like convincing light sources. Also, it looks like your material definitions are a little off. The rounded part that touches the ceiling in the midde, the tanks on either side of the platform, the metal wall pieces...none of them read like metal. Do you have a spec map on them? The rounded part that touches the ceiling in the middle is the biggest culprit...it almost looks like it is made out of concrete in your image.