Bringing Maethavee's Inn to 3D

After a couple weeks of minimal progress, I’m back with a BIG update, not really in progress for the project, but in terms of personal growth I’m really happy with how much I’ve learned in terms of making stylized textures in substance designer.

The node graph for these textures is probably one of the largest ones I’ve made so far, but thankfully there are so many parts of it that I’m going to be able to reuse across assets to make smart materials and keep a cohesive art style throughout the scene!

One of the ways I plan to make my textures is by following Jimmy Malachier’s tutorials, and branching off that to make the textures fit my scene. Pretty excited to expand my substance designer skills more, since I primarily use Substance Painter.

More progress. Been feeling quite sick this week unfortunately but still managed to get quite a bit done. I’ve settled on Unreal Engine for a few different reasons, mainly that I work in Unity all day so it’s kind of nice just using a different engine for a personal project.

I’m not super settled on the art style yet, I want to do something stylized, watercolor-esque, something out of my comfort zone, and if that doesn’t work out I’ll go back to a realistic style that I’m familiar with.

Getting somewhere! Starting to look like something! I think I’ve settled on using Unreal Engine for the rendering process. There’s a lot I want to learn that’s going to really help with tying everything together since I want to do a stylized look which will match the concept a bit more. Which means I’ll be spending time learning stylized texture workflows (I have some experience but I’ve only ever worked professionally on realistic art styles) as well as some custom shader stuff down the line.

Some more progress! Tweaking some of the proportions, the right side of the building has a lot of layering going on so I imagine it’s going to need quite a few iterations before it starts to feel right, since at the moment I’m still not quite satisfied with it. While doing iterations on that I like to spruce things up here and there like the doorways.

Some progress! Still figuring things out but starting to get the shape fleshed out.

Here’s the concept I’m trying to recreate: Artist’s page

I’ve already started working out some of the proportions and early passes at the Inn.

This is just the scene in Maya so there’s no real lighting or nice camera effects yet, but soon hopefully!