Rookie Awards 2023 - Pirate's Cove | UE4 Environment Art
This environment piece explores the themes of piracy in the West Indies from the early 18th century with inspiration from Assassin's Creed Black Flag. The entire scene was created by myself and went through a complete overhaul from being a University project to my best environment piece!
Breakdown
The project began by collating many concepts focusing on piracy in the west indies. Assassin's Creed was a big inspiration and became a quality benchmark to aim towards.
This scene needed a wide range of assets from props, rocks, foliage and a big pirate ship, which all utilise different methods in their creation. Larger assets use tiling and trim textures with smaller props like the cannons using unique textures all made in Substance Designer and Painter.
Thinking of game limitations, I decided to reuse materials across multiple props like the wood boxes and barrels as well as the burlap sacks.
The water material was made from scratch to learn the process of making a very complex material myself and it gave me a lot of control over the motion and colour of the water as it interacts with the landscape.
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