1940-50's NYC Street

wester

Putting together a scene for the ol' portfolio. I realized that when Fall of Cybertron releases I'm going to have a ton of sci fi work in my portfolio. Although i love sci fi more than life itself, I need some variation. So to avoid that I'm going to do this scene. I had done a scene like this in college but it was horrible. I'm a huge fan of the 40's and 50' so i decided to do a 1940's ale house on a NYC street. I'm going to have some modular apartment building pieces, water towers, fire escapes, shipping trucks and just various props to get out of doing so many sci fi things.

That apartment front is of course placeholder for now. Going to start populating the scene with props for awhile. GIving myself plenty of time to finish this since I'm pretty swamped working on this sci fi short film.

Reference for the ale house entrance:


WIP:








And yes...that is brody ale.

EiGHT

Beautiful so far man, you using UDK??

Joshflighter

Love it!

nathdevlin

That's one well produced barrell. Great job with the materials and textures. Definitely a thread worth keeping an eye on.

c22dunbar

oh that is one sweet texturework

MartinH

great looking stuff, ill be following this thread.

cdevens

Looks great so far, can't wait to see more.

Arac

No comments so far. Love your texturing!

CandyStripes05

the things that simple crates and barrels are capably of lol

wester

Going to hit this thing with broader strokes as suggested by a friend. Finishing up the modular building kits and street work before delve into the props.

Thanks for the love guys

pseudoBug

Really looking forward to seeing this progress!

Some nice materials you got going. I can't help but feel that the barrels are a little bit too "egg" shaped, unless you're going for a bit of a stylized touch.

SamboMambo

this is looking sweet, very cool

Darkleopard

Great textures! I do agree with pseudobug. I feel the base of the barrel is a little small, looks easier to tip over then it should be.

I cant wait to see the wires and flats for this

wester

Small update. Just laying in some quick textures on the sidewalk. Going to spend more time on the actual texture work tomorrow.

Next up going to start the ale house front entrance.

Oniram

lookin awesome. really diggin the barrel. its nice to see how certain obligatory props get better and better with time.

wester

Laid in the front entrance to the Ale house for placement. Going to finish up the textures tonight and start on the brick wall that houses the apartments above it.

Still deciding what i'm going to do with the left part of the scene. Not sure if i'm going to show that cross street or just show this row of stores/apartments. I'm also thinking of actually making the windows transparent so you can barely see inside the ale house. Not too much but something like reference image i posted.

KennyTies

This is awesome! Your wood textures came out great. As for the windows I would say make them a bit smokey/foggy to give it a nice effect. As for the left of the scene maybe make stoop on the building. Keep up the great work!

theonebutcher

This looks really cool so far! really liking the texture work and material definition!

3Dyan

Great stuff, man. Really looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

wester

Finished the front entrance to the ale house. It just looks so bland without all of the props hah. Going to make the brick wall, decals, and windows next.

I think im not going to do a cross street and just make the final piece this row of stores and apartments. Just so i can focus my efforts on a small area and make it the best that i can.

Thanks for all the love guys!

wester

Adjusted the saturation on the ale house entrance as well as made tileable bricks!

Going to be making the windows and fire escape next.

megalmn2000

Really like what I see so far! Continue!

Twister3

Nice work man! Looking forward to this!

DeadlyFreeze

Looking pretty solid so far. The barrel instancing is a bit front and center now, not sure if you plan to add more textures.

A quick master mat with and a couple instances with a multiplier on the diffuse to get some darker and light barrels would break it up nicely.

Lost-Artist89

looks great, will be following thing...

would be nice to break the pavement up abit (im sure you will at some point anyways i know its a wip)

maybe a drane or manhole cover might help some guttering on the building too would be nice

wester

Thanks everyone!

Yeah i'm going to create some material instances for the barrels later on. Right now I'm just doing broad strokes to get the color palette and feel down.

Also going to set the pavement up for some vert blending and decals to break it up.

Justin Perreault

Cool idea/Well executed!

Looking forward to seeing it progress.

Jarkis

Really great looking materials, one critique on the brick tileable however. I notice one dark and one lighter brick stand out. I might try adjusting their values a little as it does make it rather obvious you are using a tile.

SsSandu_C

Hello! It looks really nice. If it wouldn't be much trouble can you post some specs on the assests. tris/verts count and map sizes and maybe some watermaked texture sheets. I really like how you handled the wood and metal. Thank you!

wester

Weekend progress. Just baked down the assets for the fire escape and windows, texturing now.

Going to try to fit the sign in this weekend too

Trying to think of a clever name for the ale house but im awful at being clever haha.

Aigik

Loving it so far! This is a setting you don't see too much in games, and I'm really digging the wood.

Free_Fall

Call it the Clever Ale

wester

I was honestly going to make it "McFly Ale House" but that's too obvious. I already have Brody Ale on the barrel (indiana jones) so i might just make it maclaren's ale house.

Damn you gods of cleverness...why didn't you bless me with wit!

wester

Update!

Textured up the fire escape and windows. I'm having alot of fun with this project! Going to probably move on to the next building before i start adding props to this building. Keeping with the broad strokes.

Enjoy!

DeadlyFreeze

Looking hot man, are you planning to keep this frame of view through it all? Kind of liked the first shots you did with the wider perspective.

wester

Forgot to copy the other image

farettig

I love this project. Keep it up!

joebount

Looking really nice, reminds me a bit of King Kong (the NY bit obviously )

wester

Thanks guys

joebount: I didn't even think about that for reference!! Good call!

KarlWrang

Looks lovely! The props are darn sexy.

chrisradsby

Well lookie here, you've gone and poured awesome-sauce all over that didn't you? didn't you??

^^

Keep up the hard work Looking forward to more!

nathdevlin

Excellent progress being made. The only things that I'd suggest tweaking imo is the strength of the normal map on the bricks. I feel they protrude slightly too much. There is some stretching of rivets on the upper bar of the fire escape.

KennyTies

The addiction of the fire escape is an excellent addition. Are the windows level with the fire escape? Keep up the great work!

wester

Here's the reference for the next building. I really liked how it has an underground type of laundromat and opportunity to give some depth to the scene. Also a good opportunity for some signage and storytelling elements.



The windows arent textured yet, just laying them in to make sure the colors work well in the scene.

KennyTies

I really like the idea of adding the laundry mat to the scene. May I suggest adding a sign on the sidewalk in front of the laundry mat, possible next to a lamp post. Keep up the great work!

wester

Just textured up the windows for the second building. Moving on to the stairs and that underground level where the laundry mat actually is.

Just a heads up. I am going to do a post process pass at the end to try to recreate that old photo look as you can see from my reference images. Going to try to find a nice balance between it as to not take away from the scene.

Also plan on putting a plant in the front of that big open window so it doesnt just look like a black hole hah.

Orchidface

This is going in a good direction I think. Great attention to detail.

wolver

really awesome work wester
your bricks -i thought there might be a chance that you could be referencing bricks that were like that.
but seeing your ref you've definitely made them far to square, they need to be a lot more rectangular imo : ]

wester

Thanks guys!

wester

Here's the first and second building so far. I'll be adding more to the second building of course.

wester

Update for the night. Finished up the stairs. Going to make a tileable concrete block texture to create for the bottom level (laundry mat) area next, create a door for this building, and then make the laundry mat entrance as well.