Uncharted 2 Environment

Se

[FONT=&quot]EDIT: I gots me a video!

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Hey all. I've been working on a concept from Shaddy Safadi who of course does the concept art for Naughty Dog. The concept is based in Nepal, where a lot of the game takes place. But whereas the game mostly focused on urban combat in Nepal, this area appears more suburban. I don't recall this area making it into the game.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I gave it a shot. I'm still a bit of a noob so but I'm actually surprised the way it came out. Better than expected. Here's the concept:[/FONT]
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What’s interesting about this concept is how minimal the architecture is here, namely the large windows and the large stone structure. Compared to the architecture of Nepal and Bhaktapur, the concept was very tame. Here’s some of the architecture from Nepal.








What I ended up doing was combining his concept with the motifs and art of Nepal.
Here’s what I got so far. I’m gonna call it a day for now. UDK’s been a real bitch with the light baking, even on the lowest settings. Let me know where I can improve guys!






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And just because, some assets.





Some input would be fantastic. Hoping to put a video out soon. Thanks guys!

Ged

great individual assets! seriously beautiful! I feel the whole scene still feels a little empty and disconnected, lower pavement walls and maybe some vertex painted dirt and debris on the floor and lower walls to blend it all together would make it more like uncharted?

DeadlyFreeze

The individuals assets really do look good, the window and stone shrine in particular. Nice work on them.

The scale seems off a bit to me. Mostly because of the doorways, they seem to small in relation to the 'car' and it kind of throws things off.

The lighting has some nice spots where you get the hard shadows from the buildings, but other areas are just kind of muddy. I'm not sure if you have a LUT on this yet but a tweak might really help the lighting out.

salacious_Crumb

Really nice assets. The piece in the middle feels a bit odd to me. Like it doesn't seem to fit in with everything around it. Maybe its because its grey stone and everything else is red brick.. i dunno. The mud/sand in the middle could use a bit more detail, it looks a little flat, and almost like an off white blanket. And perhaps put some vines/ivy growing over one of the shrine pieces in the middle so they dont look so similar?
Really like what you've done though!

Rabbid_Cheeze

Like others have said, quality work on the individual assets. Would be nice to see the highpoly wires for the windows.

That said, the scene isn't feeling quite right yet. The floor stones need to be scaled down a bit, the smoke shouldn't be jet black like that, the transition between the two center pieces and the grounds needs to be broken up more, and you might want to add a touch of DOF in there if your gpu can handle it.

Se

Great feedback guys. Caught stuff I wasn't even aware of. I'll be sure to put some more work into it in the near future. Till then you guys should check out the vid. Nothing crazy, simple shots and music, just to get a feel of the place.

I definitely can see what you guys mean by with the disconnectedness with the scene. Scaling issues and the emptiness of the scene probably most contributes to that. When I go back I'm hoping to populate the scene better to make the area seem more lived in. That and I'll fix scaling and such. I'll also add more foliage to the buildings, seeing how the greens play so well against the brickwork.

JohnnyCrespo

Ahh HAhA! you swoo geud!

Macattackk

really nice! I feel like some of the ivy pieces are too straight and line up with each other too much

ErichWK

The red buildings seem very..cloudy..and soft and detached from the rest of the scene.