[UE4] Sarebo Island - FYP Environment Art Dump!
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Hello everyone,
Just finished up my final university assignment. The project came to just over 200 models created within the last 10 weeks and around 460 hours during that time. A lot of the objects in the final version were created during the last half because I decided that the original version looked boring and generic. (Original 5 weeks in: https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/56b0282ed24af84d48f972dc/1925x1114/2b0247b8dd9d25f07a65da57db95670a/upload_2_2_2016_at_4_18_54_AM.png )
After a bit of brainstorming I decided to use a lot of oranges to compliment the blues of the tower.
Website: http://www.paulscottdesign.com/
Any crit is welcome so I can make my next project better!
Video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3gZeuWcTF8[Revised] Images:
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I think this work have a nice colors, it builds a good atmosphere. What breaks the impression for me it's very simple wood material on bridge pillars. It's too clean(compared to shark hanger) and have incorrect mapping(near water). Also in this shot foreground trees appear very blurry.
Thanks for spotting the blurry trees! Turns out I was just on the border of its billboard LOD and yeah the pillars were a bit out of place, so I have fixed the uv maps and applied the dirt masking from the shark tower (Don't know why I didn't just do that anyway).
As I go I'm rendering off new images of places in the scene, so any suggestions on ones that could be very impressive?
Part 3:
Just wanna start off by saying bravo on clearing such a massive workload in such a short amount of time... being an artist currently based in Hong Kong, I know a thing or two about building a batch load of assets against the clock... So mad respect for the effort you've grinded through.
As for critique now, I'd say the thing that strikes me most about this piece is the lack of material definition... I feel like almost most if not all of the materials you have come across a bit flat, I could be wrong and it could be more to do with the lighting but I feel like everything has a lack of reflection/specularity.
The windmill blades are completely bleaching out your end shot which imo doesn't do your ending much justice and there are several moments where the camera clips through objects or has a few jolty camera movements.
I'd also say a lot of your objects are just a tad bit too low poly, some models seem like they're set for previous gen games with really low subdivisions, etc... Optimization is definitely a factor worth considering but being a games environment for showcase and not actual play-ability I would've gone for a higher subdivision choice for this.
But hey, it's a FMP.. it's done, just some food for thought on your next piece..
But seriously bravo to the scale of this, it definitely caught my attention seeing so much in this one piece and how unique each area is divided up as well. I would've expected a full scale modular set with each zone in co-ordination with the last but you actually went all out and built a different set of assets for each zone. (Y)