Added two more assets today. A wooden Pallet, and an industrial Hand Lamp. I also readjusted the lighting and deleted some of the post process. I need to add that in later. I think a few more assets and a skeleton or corpse could be added to the scene to really tell a story. I'll also be adding in a new sky sphere, along with some POM clouds and maybe some more movement in the clouds.
Wooden Pallet
Took a little break to spend time with the girlfriend and family. Now I'm back on this project for about three hours(ish) a day. I switched over to generating the background terrain for the scene. The inspiration was the High Sierra's here in California. I've hiked them multiple times, so I thought I would add them in.
Got the modeling and UV's already wrapped up. I did some changes to the model as I had to work off just one image.
Current Tri Count is I would say relatively high, but I'm trying to cut as many corners as possible. I'll do some more re-topology later when I'm less sleepy. Cylinders are expensive. But on the other hand, this is a high fidelity hero asset, so 130k is horrific. I'm on the fence about this, should I retopo some more and bring it down, or keep it at its current fidelity? I'd love to hear what you guys think.
After going so hard on this, its good to change things up. I'm going to work on the World Machine Terrain and try to get most of my grass foliage and landscape material wrapped up today.
Beginning work on a new project....
Really been influenced by Simon Stalenhags work recently, and I thought I'd pay homage with a little 3d scene. (I'm sure there many people who have done it before, but that doesn't mean I can't have a go at it!)
I'll be poasting a lot of WIPS and if anyone has any questions or critiques, feel free to engage, it's always appreciated. I'll give a general outline of my workflow. I'm going to be using a standardized real-time workflow focused on a solo environment artist modeler. That is Maya------>Substance-------->UE4. I'm going to be using SpeedTree, Marvelous Designer, World Machine, and Reality Capture to assist me along the way.
To start things off- here is the reference image of Simon's Work
https://www.simonstalenhag.se/
Had to do an art test for a VR studio in Santa Monica, limited to around 8 hours of work. It was fun do so some heavier hard surface work again. If the AA looks jagged, it because I had to enable MSAA in UE4, which is the most optimized option. It's separated into four pieces, and totally modular.
Quick Blockout with Sketch (I did the sketch in like 5 minutes, don't hate my dudes)
