Ice Tomb - UDK
Hey people! This here's the final (sort of) project of the last semester of my college program (amazing!). In case you haven't read the thread title: it's an ice tomb. But not just any ice tomb. It's an ice tomb with giant fuck-off ice crystals all over the dang place! Ok, so maybe that's what every ice tomb ever conceived has, but shut up. Also, I know these aforementioned ice crystals are conspicuously absent from all pics below, but trust me, they'll be there.
Understand that these shots are all extremely wip right now
Here's a quick & dirty paintover that I did of that last one to give you a better idea of what I'm aiming for:
Also, zbrush pillars:
Anyways, I think its going to turn out pretty cool, but if you have any cold-hearted crits to give me, don't freeze up! I promise to be chill about them (and eventually thaw your perception of this project). It was ice of you to drop by!
Understand that these shots are all extremely wip right now
Here's a quick & dirty paintover that I did of that last one to give you a better idea of what I'm aiming for:
Also, zbrush pillars:
Anyways, I think its going to turn out pretty cool, but if you have any cold-hearted crits to give me, don't freeze up! I promise to be chill about them (and eventually thaw your perception of this project). It was ice of you to drop by!
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Orangeknight: blah I know. thanks though.
I totally agree about the similarities towards skyrim and uncharted. Both have been pretty big sources of inspiration for me on this project. However, there's (obviously) a difference between inspiration and derivation, and I'm starting to feel maybe this is leaning towards the latter, which is something I definitely don't want. To be honest, this project hasn't really "clicked" for me yet and I sort of feel like I'm spinning my wheels on it. But whatever, I'm sure I'll figure something out.
I'm loving the idea and the paintover looks wonderful.
The first thing I thought of was Uncharted, but then again I think of Uncharted when I look at most things...
(Even this screenshot).
If you check out the screeny from above, you'll notice that the scene is fairly saturated, with some strong aqua-blues in the environment colour, tinting the shadows.
With snow and ice everywhere, light is being bounced all over the shop and as a result, there are rarely any truly dark areas - just dark-er areas. Try brightening the fog colour and changing the Environment Colour in the World Properties (and Shadow Colour in your lights if you need) to try and get a brighter effect.
Apart from that, there isn't really anything to critique on!
*S-s-s-s-s-s-subsribed*
Also, thanks for the crit. I know its kinda dark right now and etc, but the lighting is still very wip and I haven't touched any post-process stuff (except maybe the fog if that counts). But I will look into lightening that fog up abit and maybe saving the blue for post processing.
update! I've just started adding the (blockin) ice crystals so expect a butt-ton more of those. There's also snow now (of which I will also being adding one more butt-ton). And if you find yourself starting to question why there is even snow in an underground tomb in the first place: stop! Because you see, this is a Magic tomb, and with Magic, "Anything Is Possible" ®
Inspirational Video
I'm not sure if you're referring to me, but if you are, don't worry man. More updates are coming! I just don't want to inundate the thread with a million little updates. Instead I'm trying to keep the updates to larger milestones. Unfortunately, I've been busy with other projects as well, so progress has been a bit slow. I probably will have something for tomorrow though!
Don't worry, I was just playing along with your post above
Can't wait for the next iteration.
Regardless, there was something else I was gonna post. What was it? Oh yeah, I remember now BOOM *slams update down onto table*
I've started to rework the lighting (but I think that right now its even darker than it was before). I also gave in and added some quick colour grading (ie no pp chain yet) just because I love colour grading. Other than that, I still have some major sections that I've been seriously neglecting, like for example the entire outside part:
In reparation for not posting any updates for a while, have this weird smiley man with hands for hands and hands for feet:
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As for the tomb, it's considerably more "done" I'd say than the last update, but it's not 100%! Also, I suppose, it's not really tomb anymore as much as it's a.. throne-room? You can still call it a tomb I guess; it's your pejorative.