BA8 Environment design: Quixel, setting up for environment sculpting, Norse graves and start of boat design

Quixel suite

I recently purchased the program Quixel this is primarily to help with learning to create my own normals the uses of the program are as follows.

two programs included

Fast and high quality normals
3D previewer of model design
A large range of quixel textures

Environment sculpting

I've also set up a base layout in unreal 4 to make my environment sculpting and painting. So that i am ready to start sculpting my environment after my assets are complete.

So far i haven't added normal maps to the textures, and at this moment in time the textures i have chosen are just rough idea to speed up the environment ready for the final parts of the level design process.

Norse Graves

In total a number of these graves will surround the area, In total i will design four more of these i have designed the outlines by hand and am waiting to scan my artwork to design the rest of these graves.

Funeral Boat low poly early stages

Issues:

Mast texture wood texture too light
Figurehead wood texture
Iron bars
Some slight alterations of scale and depth

Unfinished aspects

Various maps for each object
Sail texture
Rope additions at top of and bottom of mask
Ring textures at top of ship
cloth animation on flag
Nails along aspects of the boat

Ideal additions to ship design.

Variation of ship texture color
Variations of mast design
Three designs of ship mast

Schedule

This week -

full design of normals other maps and texturing the remaining objects
Rope design and texture
Variations of textures for boat.

Next week -

Animation for flag and rope
Importing animations alpha layers and burn additions

Video Overview of the week

Other props

Hooks braces and frames have been now added to the base boat, these will add a bit more detail to the boat and also serve as holders for other aspects that will be added. Such as the rope holding the mast together. The frames that are added to the front and back of the boat and have a range of nordic inscriptions and carvings on them.

Work pipeline

Sail rope and rings

Normals and maps

Maya renders (half way point)

Adding curve to base of boat

I changed the structure of the boat and added some curvature to the layout. I felt this was more accurate to a representation of a viking boat. I did this using the deformer tools available in maya.