Great stuff! I learned a lot from reading this post. Good job!

Outstanding, that is just fantastic. Keep it up.

It's awesome! Really kicking ass

Inspiration at its best, awesome work man. Thanks for the breakdown on your workflow

Quick question: For the pillar breakdown, how did u go from 1-B to 1-C? It looks like you used boolean but kept the topology clean. I always have trouble modeling in a dip/hole on a complex hard surface model.

This is such an interesting work flow, I usually am not a huge fan of having to retopo. It would be great to see a video on this workflow! Great work.

This piece looks absolutely wonderful!
You have managed to create 3D assets that look like a matte-painting. I look forward to your next piece (considering this was a while ago, I've probably just yet to find it :P)

Originally Posted by Sithis324

Inspiration at its best, awesome work man. Thanks for the breakdown on your workflow

Quick question: For the pillar breakdown, how did u go from 1-B to 1-C? It looks like you used boolean but kept the topology clean. I always have trouble modeling in a dip/hole on a complex hard surface model.

He used ProBoolean rather than bog-standard Boolean. While not entirely perfect, it is worlds better for clean topology.

Thanks guys! SirCalalot is correct that ProBoolean is much cleaner for creating subtractions. I would like to add to that, to keep your geometry super clean, keep it on the grid! If you look at my subtraction mesh and my base mesh, you will notice that the topology is already very similar. That means that it is minimal work to clean that up after I do my Boolean operations.

very cool art

That atmosphere is sweet! Really dig it.

Just thought I'd let you know,Darkrusader, that I'm using a similar workflow inspired by your floor bricks.
I'm creating a cluster of floorboards for a scene I'm working on that can be slotted together and flipped just like your floor in this.

Thanks again for posting

I love the final UDK scene. Very loyal to the original Concept.

Only thing I noticed that I would personally change are the massive stones on the floor. If you have a look at the steps on the stairs, they are quite small, as for a normal human foot. But when you look at the floor, it seems that a normal human being would fall in between those massive spaces between the stones! I would scale it down a bit. Other than that, I like it a lot ;-) Good job!

Even tho i love the lantern. It looks a bit out of place.

I think your scene should be lit by regular fire.

Man....I wish I could understand how to get this level of quality with the textures in UDK. When I see a stage like this it just makes me remember that I really need to work on my materials. Great job.

wow, great job.

Awesome work! Thanks for posting those breakdowns as well!

Amazing!

Are you a professional Artist?
You sure work in the Game Industry, or?

Originally Posted by Darkrusader

Here is an article that goes into much more depth on how to use color properly in your specular channel

http://www.manufato.com/?p=902

Fantastic article!
I tried the specular previewing trick in photoshop but i can't seem to get it working thou. I put all the layers exactly like that ,but once i move the white spots ,nothing happens.. any clues anyone?

thanks for your tutorial. that is very wonderful!

Amazing work dude!!!!!

EPIC

Amazing work and final look. Interesting to see your approach to all the parts especially using decimation master as the sole creation point for you lowpoly meshes.

just wow

well done sir

nice work

Amazing work, and congrats like you short tut on modelling floors,