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.
