Long time member, first time poster. Here is my first completed environment. C&C appreciated.

bipolarbear45 · Jun 2018

Hi there,

So I have been lurking around here for quite a while but never really felt like I was at the point to share my work. I recently have graduated from college specializing in 3D Modeling. I finally feel like I am at a point that I am proud of the work that I have done. I would love to hear what you nice people think. Any thoughts that you all have are welcome. Thank you for looking.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/85/eu32vh0q4d1b.png

Blouko · Jun 2018

I'd love to see screenshots from different angles, looks great!

Brian "Panda" Choi · Jun 2018

I want more shots and breakdowns, Thomas. This looks liek a decent solid sstart

bipolarbear45 · Jun 2018

I had made singular assets before and small scenes all through college but this was the first time that I actually set down to make a full environment. This is also the project that I realized that I wanted to specialize in environment art. I made a lot of the small vegetation in 3DS Max, the rocks and the large tree trunk in Zbrush, and the other trees and billboards in Speedtree. A lot of the textures are taken from textures.com as my texturing work needs improvement, especially with substance. It is all rendered and lit in UE 4.

I kind of set it up to look decent from this angle so I don't really have any other good screenshots. I will try to make some more here in a little while. I did play around with some different lighting settings before I settled on this. Here are some of my test shots:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/0c/2jhvre2ql8d5.png

For this one, I was trying to make a spooky, horror-esque look to it. I thought that it turned out to be a little too dark and you lose a lot of the detail in the scene. I was a fan of the fog so I tried it with the lighter lighting to see if it looked better in the daytime.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/cl/etceb1agtlak.png

At this point, I realized that it was the fog that was causing a ton of the detail to be lost and blurring the further parts of the composition. I dropped the fog and made the current final render. The last lighting test that I did was something a little unrealistic. I had originally planned to have a few more supernatural elements in the scene to spice it up a little but cut it in the end as I felt it was unnecessary. This next one was a render to fit that sort of feel.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/my/7opv1inhpubc.png

I still feel like I could have worked with this a little more, especially change the skybox to make it fit better. Ultimately, It just seemed to blanket the scene with light which isn't what I wanted for it. Finally, here is a screenshot of all of the assets that I made for the project. My teacher joked around calling it my asset pack.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/wm/qr34aupizqrt.png

I do wish that I had more assets like vines, mushrooms, Pinecones, etc. I think that it also needs more color and contrast in the scene. I am working on a new project now that will definitely have more color to it. Still, I would love to hear what you all think. I hope I didn't write too much. It was actually really helpful to kind of write all of these thoughts down for the first time.

Blouko · Jul 2018

You definitely didn't write to much. I do think the second image stands out better than the final one too much, with the loss of detail it focuses your eye on the fence, which could be a good thing. Although, it might be too strong, it looks a little weird on the left side, where the water is. Anyhow, nice work!

Long time member, first time poster. Here is my first completed environment. C&C appreciated.

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