Marchand Venter FIEA Art Blog : May 2018

Goals for project:

Learn more about modularity and making environmental kits
Recreate a realistic Unreal shot that closely matches up to a photograph image
Integrate Substance Designer workflow directly into Unreal
Learn more about how to create ware and tear using material blending in UE4
Learn how to mimic the lighting by matching the master reference shot
Learn about the creation of cloth in Marmoses designer
Learn about the creation of neon light in UE4

What is the environment:
A small snapshot of a weathered New York City Psychic storefront at night. A heavy focus on realism.

Mood:
For this project, I wanted to create a more mysterious inviting mode that is represented in the concept image. As you are walking back from a late night of work, you stumble upon this rundown psychics storefront.

Possible complications:
I think a complication of this project might be the lighting due to how strong the contrast in the lights are, ranging from very dark to very light neon.

Props vs Building models

List of props:

Folding Door Gate
Display Case Props

Neon Sign
Hand Palm Guilds
Photo Frames
Head Bust
Stretched Male Statue
Tarot cards

Neon Sign
Neon Sign Power Cables
Frame
Curtains
AC unit with a Plastic cover

List of Building Assets:

Display Box “StoreFront”
Two Small Doors

Door Lock

Wall Pillars
SideWalk Curb
Sidewalk Cellar Door
Awning

Substance Designer Materials

Chiping Painted wood Yellow
NYC Sidewalk

Schedule:

Project Begins 05/14 and ends 06/13

05/14 - 05/23:

Blockout Pass in maya representing every props and shape that will be in the final scene.
Base UE4 scene set up, begin importing props
Working on lighting
UE4 Camera Set up

05/23 - 05/30:

High Poly Pass on every major building asset
Display Box “StoreFront”
Two Small Doors
Door Lock
Wall Pillars
SideWalk Curb
Sidewalk Cellar Door
Awning
Door Lock
Continue Lighting
Work on Neon Light in UE4

05/30 - 06/06:

High Poly Pass on Props in the display case
Folding Door Gate
Display Case Props

Neon Sign
Hand Palm Guilds
Photo Frames
Head Bust
Stretched Male Statue
Tarot cards

Neon Sign
Neon Sign Power Cables
Frame
Curtains
AC unit with a Plastic cover
Resurfacing and texture work on Building Assets
Lighting
Substance designer Materials

06/06 - 06/13:

Resurface and Texture Props
UE4 final render + marmoset scene

Mile Stone 01 Submission (05-21-18)

This milestone I was able to complete everything task I set for my self. I also made a google sheets document in order to keep up help with project management.

So here is the Maya block out.

And here are the assets imported into UE4

Mile Stone 02 Submission (05-28-18)

Ok time for Milestone 2 due to date (Half way). While I have been making good progress overall I think I might be a little behind of my original goal for this turn in. It had been hard balancing 3 different projects at the same time.

I did get a chance to make some substance designer textures for the sidewalk and learned a little more about material instancing as well as Vertecy colors and material functions.

I broke down all the assets in my Maya scene and placed them individually into UE4, setting up the bridge for the geo. I am in the process of getting the first pass on as many structural assets as I can, in order to have texture files linked.