Old Tower Ruin | Environment Project | Week 1 Review

Week 1

• Set up level in Unreal Engine for early Blocking - Rough Blockout (Early Staging, Cinematic Shot Placements, B-Roll Ideas)
  
• Blockout of entire scene in Maya - Low Res Topology
  
• Blockout of all the details for the Ruin - Including broken pieces, rough blockout of rocks.(Rocks will be sculpted during 2nd week in ZBrush, while broken pieces will be added also during 2nd week)
  
• Get the meshes ready for sculpting
  
• First pass of lighting in Unreal

 Maya Render's 

 Unreal Engine Blocking + Lighting Tests with Dynamic (No Post Processing+)

 Asset Breakdown 

• Tower Ruin | Main Tower - Broken Pieces (Stacked, Scattered Floor, Rubble)
  
• Variations of Rocks 3-4 
• Variations of plants/foliage - Vines, Ferns, Bushes, Moss, Grass
  

Week 2

• Sculpting and High Poly for Ruin 
• Create High Poly Sculpt for Rocks + debris
  
• Double Check Topology
  
• UV'ing + Game Res for all
  
• Lighting Check in Engine 
• Create Foliage In SpeedTree (If Time Constraint becomes an issue, then will use backup Megascans from Quixel Bridge) 
• Start Selecting Shots for Rendering (Finalize placement of Cinematic Shots and Sequencing)
  

Week 3

• Texturing All Assets
  
• Set Dress Level - Bringing Game Res models into level and Foliage Pass (Backup Megascans from Quixel Bridge)
  
• Final Lighting Pass 
• Rendering 

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