Grand Space Opera - Flowershroom
Final Video
Final Shot
In Unreal
Most of the elements used in the scene. 3 tiling materials and the trailing smoke made in Designer. Cloud cards made in Houdini. Objects are scaled here for presentation purposes.
Coral rock sculpts
Blueberry and rock stem sculpts
How I approached the blueberry part, re-sculpted it towards the end of the project.
The petals were drawn, warped, then turned to geo with the trace node in Houdini. I edited the normals on the boundaries of the hemispheres to point in the same direction as the petals, then blurred the normals of the non-boundary points slightly.
Tendril Boogie
Progress gif
This is my final submission for the Grand Space Opera: Light Age Artstation Challenge, done over 8 weeks mostly on weekends. I based my entry on the wonderful concept by Ihor Tovstohan. Thanks for everyone's kind and supportive words during the challenge! For external assets I used Devon Chiu's fog card blueprint https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Yd4OX and Michael Kinsey's volumetric cloud material for the smaller distance clouds. https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/KzYA/dinusty-volumetric-clouds-in-ue4-tutorial-content https://www.artstation.com/artwork/L3ly20