Rookie Awards 2024 | Environment

Alien flower

Alien flower is a project created in zbrush rendered on unreal engine 5.4. I made this project from the end of March to the end of April.

Zbrush

I don't use symmetry in zbrush

Texture

I created the textures below in subtance painter

For the floor I created a material in subtance designer.

Unreal engine 5.4

I create a basic master material for the floor

I also make a master material for grass and add a wind effect.

I'm making a material master with as many parameters as possible to have more modification in the intance.

I created the skeleton, rig and animation in unreal engine 5.4 for the first time.

This is the first time I've created a smoke effect in ue5. I had to install the niagara fluid plugin. This allowed me to use 2d gas grid content. I then modified the parameters to obtain what I wanted and linked it to a simple niagara effect.

For the particles in the air, I created an effect in nigara using sprite 2d.

Demoreel - Stylized environment

Biome vortex

I created the biome vortex project from October to November. This project is optimized for games

Concept 

Zbrush 

Texture

I created the textzres on substance painter

Unreal engine 4.27

I'm creating a master material for the assets with a timer for the animated emmissive.

I have created another master material for grass with wind

In unreal engine I decided to remove the mesh from the center of the portal to make it an effect. I created a master material for the center of the portal that I use in a niagara effect. To animate the center of the portal I need to make a material function

I also create a cardboard shader that is also used in the crop biome.

I make the particles in niagara. I have particles that are for the crystals, and particles for the portal.

Finally, I created the effect in the center of the portal.

Coral biome

I created the coral biome from November to January.

Concept

Zbrush

Texture

I created the textures in substance painter except for the sand, which is created in designer.

Animation

I did the retopology on maya with quad draw. I did the skeleton, rig and animation in maya 

Unreal engine 4.27

I created the landscape and its master material

I have created a master material for all assets in the environment

Algae are an effect in Niagara. I also did the bubble effects

I need to make a blueprint path so that my animation follows a clear path in the environment.

Crop biome

Crop biome is not optimized for games. I used the same shader as for the vortex biome. I made it from January to February

Concept

Zbrush

Mushroom cave

Mushroom cave is a test of alien environment creation using quixel on unreal engin 5.3. Only the mushrooms were modified in zbrush based on a 3D scan of megascan. I created new emissive maps for mushrooms and plants. I used a plugin to create water.