AnthonyZheng’s submission — VIKING VILLAGE: 3D ENVIRONMENT ART CHALLENGE

Final Submission!!

Beauty Render

Lighting Render

Wirefram view

Breakdown Render

The mud and 2 snow material were vert painted together to create the landscape. The wood material was the main texture used throughout the main buildings.

Detail Trim:

This was the detail trim I used to sculpt and decorate the door and other assets in the scene.

Master Material

This is the main master material used for a majority of the assets. It has a section for RGB Masking, texture manipulation, and snow blending.

Asset Breakdown:

Conclusion:
I am so grateful to have been able to participate in this challenge. Since this is the first time I have made a nature heavy environment, My main goal for this project was to explore new territory and learn new techniques to create a visually stunning environment. In the end, I think I accomplished my goal.

Thank you Sierra Division and all the other participants for this amazing opportunity.

Excited to be entering the final week. Wanted to post a progress pic, and hopefully more progress to come.

Continued to make adjustments to the main building. The main things I will focus on for the rest of the challenge is finalizing the main building designs, dock, and revamping the landscape.

Wasn't happy with my previous wall assets, so i spent some time learning RGB masking. Definitely adds a lot more detail and variety to the wood pattern.

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Spent the past two days sculpting and designing the main door way. more sculpting and detailing will come over the next few days. But I am happy with the direction.

Polygeddon

Hey, thanks a lot. I definitely struggle when working without an existing concept. So if you have any feedback or suggestions for the scene / building, I would love to hear them.

I spent a little too much time experimenting with different building ideas. But this concept will probably be the one I am sticking with. Now I can finally move on from block outs and start creating finalized assets.

Took a break last weekend, but I am back with some more progress. Made my assets more tillable, threw on a basic color texture and still figuring out snow materials for the roof.

First time diving into Gaea, but I wanted to get some quick mountains into the scene. I also added some trees as well.

Update 3: Still deciding on composition and block out. Currently throwing things at a wall and seeing what sticks. but I wanted to set the mood and get some of the VFX out of the way.

Update 2: I made some block outs in blender to test out some composition ideas.

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Update 1: I am still deciding on what my concept is, but I want to incorporate the aurora borealis. After a long day of hard farming, sailing, or fighting, staring out at the winter night sky just sounds like a nice time. That is feeling I want to capture.

Reference: I began collecting references or landscapes, architecture, props and material details. The board will grow as the project continues!

Name: Anthony Zheng
Country: United States
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