Windy Hills - A Stylized Environment

Composition Process

Props

These are the assets I created: modeled in Maya or Blender and in some case I sculpted an highpoly and then baked normal and ambient occlusion maps. The final look is the result of the shaders made in the unreal's material editor.

Reference

Here are references I used. Isaac Hilyard's artwork is the one that inspired me most for creating  the composition.

Master Material Graph

An overview on how works the shader on rocks and tree trunks. Firstly I started with a solid color or a gradient, then I added some some noises to create some color variations. The gradient is based on object bounding box and doesn't depend by Uvs. To blend better assets with the landscape I used runtime virtual textures and the WorldAlignBlend function. Finally I used ambient occlusion mixed to a color for a more stylized effect.