Greg Brown@toadSTL

Pizza Margherita

A blog post about this project is available on my art station blog: https://www.artstation.com/blogs/toadstl/jBwaw/rendering-a-pizza-with-subsurface-scattering

Worker's Cottage corner - Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

A blog post about this project is available on my art station blog: https://www.artstation.com/toadstl/blog/Z4rrz/rendering-a-corner-of-a-worker-s-cottage

Model Attribution

• "Old Boots" (https://skfb.ly/oIp6s) by RojNi is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
• "Bucket" (https://skfb.ly/oAQKG) by Melon Polygons is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
• The chair is from Quixel and "Megascans access is licensed for use with Unreal Engine-based Products only" https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/content

Victim

Details

• Time Spent: 10 weeks
• Focuses: Digital Sculpting
• Primary Software: ZBrush

This is an attempt at making a character using ZBrush for a SCAD course. This character was later used in the project Don't Panic

Observatory

The observatory is a virtual space designed to be the environment for a game. Reference images were gathered and components of the scene were chosen.

Some of the components were designed to be modular. A hero asset was also included in the scene. Meshes were created in Maya for the modular components and for the hero asset.

Design elements were imported into the Unreal Engine. Structural modular components for the walls, ceiling, floor, pillars, railings and bookshelves were created initially. A large telescope was designed as the hero asset.

Textures were created for each scene component, including a stone wall texture which was composited from textures.com and wood textures for the ceilings and floors which were created using Substance 3D Designer.

Blueprints for the elements of the project and for the structure itself were created. Bookshelves, for example, were produced in the blueprint construction script from three meshes. Blueprints for various arrangements of books and for a candle were created as well. The candle flame was a particle effect done by animating an alpha image with noise in the material blueprint in the UE editor.

The moon was created using a blueprint that includes a dome to reflect white light to increase the moonglow within the scene. The moon model uses a texture provided by NASA.

After finalizing the scene and setting up lighting the scene was rendered in the Unreal Engine by using cameras in the scene which showed desired images and which were then animated to create clips using sequencer. UE was used to render images and media encoder was used to compile the rendered images into a video.

Train Station

This was my first environment art project in Maya. The goal was to create a scene resembling a british train station in a bucolic english countryside.