VR Environment (Week 6)

This week we made mountains and a skysphere in Unreal. For the mountains, we used World Machine to generate them, then I brought it into Substance to bake and texture. I iterated my skysphere textures 14 times to finally get a stylized look I was satisfied with. Based on last week's critique, I removed the small grass because they were too small to add any signifiance to the scene and I up-scaled the fox statue to be twice as big than before.

Skysphere

Mountains

VR Environment (Week 5)

This week I revisited my sculpt to add more details and push for Orb's style as much as I could. I'm still not quite satisfied with it, but I understand that it's part of the learning process.After I baked and textured using Substance, I then brought it into Unreal and applied a pulsing effect for the emissive glow with Wilson Liu's handy-dandy blueprint maths.

Texture Maps

Tangled VR (Week 5)

This week I sculpted and retopologized Pascal's proxy model for game-res. I started in ZBrush to block out Pascal's primary form, then imported him into Maya to resurface using quad-draw. I learned that resurfacing requires problem solving to make sure edge flow is always consistent and to include more divisions around areas where he will bend for animation. Aside from modeling, I helped ensure style consistency throughout each individual slide.

VR Environment (Week 4)

This week, I sculpted the hi-res hero asset for my environment in ZBrush. The asset is a statue of a fox. I'm satisfied with the basic form/shape, but I still need to give more time and attention to the detailing. I decimated the sculpt in order to put it in UE4 to test scale and readability. I notice the details need to be more accentuated in order to notice them through my lighting.

Sculpt in Engine (Shot 1)

Sculpt in Engine (Shot 2)

Tangled: Art Style Guide (Cont'd - Week 4)

 

Based on our last feedback, we changed the typeface of our body text to something less bold. Adjusted layout by the text to the top left corner to allow room for larger images. We included a Table of Contents to sort through out presentation quicker and added more color swatches to the slides.

In terms of content, we shifted our story to be more centered on the player. For interactivity, Pascal is the main interactor. We removed Rapunzel and Flynn to compensate scope. This week was the start of VR testing and going into engine with proxys.

VR Environment (Week 3)

Based on last critique, I adjusted my lighting to be less blue, but I think it still needs work. I haven't been able to retouch the snow to make it more readable yet. This week, I focused on modeling and texturing vegetation. I also was working on some technical aspects in Unreal.

Tangled: Art Style Guide (Week 3)

 

We changed the body font to closer fit our style. We also made our images larger and reduced the text based on last week's critique for balance. This week we focused on analyzing and creating a style guide specifically for our scene. Working collaboratively again, but I mainly worked on the environment and shape language (for environments) slides and making sure all of our slides were consistent and given the same treatment.

VR Environment (Week 2)

Render Shot in UE4

Based on last critique, I had to add in medium vegetation, a flower, and a moon. I also had to make my object interactable and adjust the lighting to my scene. I was only able to fix half of those tasks due to time constraints. 

For the remainder of the week, I worked on the ground terrain and rocks. I went through the pipeline by sculpting it in Zbrush, building a game-res mesh and UVing in Maya, and then texturing it in Substance Painter. After that, I pushed it into UE4 and replaced my proxies with the final meshes.