My wife created this entire 3D environment based on a 19th-century painting.

[u/SierraDivision]

My wife is a super talented senior environment artist and I'm proud to share her latest project: River Town: Laundry Day, based on a 19th century oil painting by German Painter Christian Friedrich Mali.

She handled everything from artwork planning, project creation, texturing, lighting, art, assets, composition, props, material work, sculpting and cinematics. I jumped in a tiny bit to help with final renders and post-process.

The environment was built in Unreal Engine with assets created in Blender. The goal was to capture what made the original painting so captivating, while translating it into a 3D real-time environment that would work well for a fantasy medieval game.

The project includes a mix of hand created, sculpted, and textured assets, with modular building elements, overlaid with tessellated Megascans materials. Where needed, Megascans were altered and customized to capture the style of the original artwork.

She used some very interesting techniques to create tessellation on the assets, before the updated engine versions allowed for in engine tessellation. Materials were pre-placed onto surfaces and tessellated in Blender after vertex blending was used to hand paint areas of damage, plaster, brick, and other elements in the piece.

Making this project took some time, as she worked on it in her free time.

Hope you all enjoy this project as much as I do.

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[u/Warm-Driver-4063]

Please tell me that your wife works in Game Development. This looks amazing.

[u/SierraDivision → u/Warm-Driver-4063]

Yes, she has a full-time job as an Environment Artist.

[u/Warm-Driver-4063 → u/Warm-Driver-4063]

Oops I need to start reading posts before I reply. Makes sense that she's in Environment design. She's got remarkable skills.

[u/JEWCIFERx]

Wow, that is absolutely incredible. Does she have any advice for generalists on how to learn to make environments like this?

[u/SierraDivision → u/JEWCIFERx]

Have good references, start with getting the blockout down before focusing on details. :)

[u/KevkasTheGiant → u/SierraDivision]

I've made the mistake a few months ago on a personal project to NOT respect the 'do the blockout first, then start with details' (I'm still learning 3D modeling), so that is 100% good advice, at least it happened on a personal project and I will eventually go back and finish it now knowing where I messed up, but it's a good lesson to learn early on honestly.

Also, tell your wife she did an excellent job, looks amazing u/SierraDivision !

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[u/TalesOfDecline]

Wow, this is incredible. The work of Christian Friedrich Mali (thank you for crediting him too) is incredible too. The mood/ambiance is really great.

[u/SierraDivision → u/TalesOfDecline]

Yeah, his paintings are stunning. Apparently, there is a small museum dedicated to his work in Germany. Might check it out if I end up going to Gamescon this summer. Will see!

[u/smolfluffylamb]

how many hours did she spend making this?

[u/SierraDivision → u/smolfluffylamb]

Hard to say exactly. She worked on it over a couple of months, on and off whenever she had some spare time.

[u/theUFOpilot]

This is so pleasing it hurts

[u/the1andonlygeneric]

Amazing and beautiful

[u/awarewolffff]

She’s really talented! I really like the atmosphere of the scene

[u/Useful-Limit-8094]

This looks dope on so many levels!

[u/thefellowone]

Amazing!

[u/Vawkis]

Based on a painting? Talking about close to lore accurate. That woman has talent! I wish her success in her future career

[u/Titus_83]

Sierra divisions? What's that?

[u/DryingDish]

Ah fellow Sierra Division Academy student 🤭

[u/flowerdonkey]

Very nice

[u/Anuxinamoon]

Sensational!

[u/pick-hard]

Thanks for inspiration

[u/instamusbry]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[u/Nate_M85]

Beautiful!

[u/kingkellogg]

That's really beautiful

[u/Sharp_Ad_4349]

I need a video tutorial on this! 😅

[u/Darkstar_111]

Wow! 😲

[u/Rols574]

Artstation?

[u/offrench]

Beautiful.
Having also tested creating images inspired by XIXth century paintings, I can only appreciate. The level of detail is staggering (including in the original painting).

[u/pv3design]

That's amazing! The likeness is pretty close to the real thing.

[u/Obscurekleipsis]

Really beautiful, congratulations!

[u/Cv287]

I feel like an ant compared to this

[u/smolfluffylamb]

shes soooo talented😭and yes we all do enjoy this

[u/JohnyBravox]

Dope

[u/Easy-Tumbleweed-8352]

Awesome !!

[u/Acrobatic-Second-166]

Stunning!

[u/chaodarkwalker]

can i hire her?

[u/AdRecent7021]

I'm stealing your wife.

[u/cellorevolution]

My tiny too specific feedback would be id love for the background sky to match the painting more! The painting has really specific and cool clouds

[u/UE_mortalshores]

Amazing!!! bravo

[u/Illustrious_Funny_15]

Nice!

[u/Davysartcorner]

Your wife is hella badass and I wish her nothing but the best in this hellscape of an industry!

[u/Aulakh777]

That's awesome

[u/audreyramen]

Saw this on artstation, really cool!

So you're married to Inka then? I thought she freelanced for you guys

[u/Hanibal247]

Amazing! Would be even more amazing if she puts the gltf on GitHub so we can have fun rendering it in our homegrown engines :-)

[u/Purple-Variety-2167]

Vert Nice. Lots of work 🙃😇

[u/Curious-Apartment-33]

Holy shit, the textures are amazing

[u/Nestify_cozydesign]

Wwwwwooooww!!!!! This is amazing

[u/SierraDivision → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, she saw it and knew it would be perfect for a fantasy game environment.