WELCOME

Welcome to The Empire Bi-Monthly Challenge! You are all welcome to stretch your artist legs. Get out of your comfort zone or artist block, and unleash your full potential!

Another Bi-Monthly challenge has arrived! This challenge we change it up yet again by getting you to face your technical demons. Chose your monster but also rise up and conquer it! Puddles, Trim Sheets, and Blueprints oh my!

DETAILS

There are no winners or prizes, it's all about challenging yourself.

The Deadline is purely to indicate the start of the next challenge, if you need more time to finish up that's okay. This specific challenge is trying out our new Bi-monthly challenge. This should give you more time to explore and really polish what your building.

Your focus should be on technical understanding, and exploration. Think outside the box and it is highly encouraged to share what your doing or what you want to do. Chances are someone knows how or can point you to a great resource.

JOIN IN!

Join in the fun in #challenge-chat on the Dinusty Empire Discord.

Finished work can go in #finished-work

It is important to receive feedback throughout the two month process. Remember we are all trying to grow as artists. Be sure to ask for any feedback. You will be better for it.

Also don't miss out on the resource links below to get started fast!

TECHNICAL ONE // Puddles for Days

wet road close-up photography (unsplash.com)

Puddles through shader on terrain or puddles that are placed as decals. what about puddles affected by wind or react to rain. Exploring the creation of puddles will add to your arsenals as a environment artist

TECHNICAL TWO // Trim Sheets

Trim Sheet Tutorial > Premium Courses Online (online-courses.club)

Trim sheets are extremely powerful and really speed up the creation of very large scenes. They also allow you to really put the details where they count and have it count over and over again every time you use that trim sheet.

TECHNICAL THREE // Lighting Asset with Blueprints

SamBeanArt - UE4 Blueprinting for Environment / Lighting Workflows

Blueprints are extremely useful. One of the most common blueprints a environment artist can benefit from is a blueprint for controlling lighting assets that also affect the brightness of emissive. Really think about all the features you can have for some thing like this. Strength, flickering of the lights, and color changing of the light. Don't forget your IES images!