Newroz Backyard - Bachelor Project (WiP)

Different sun angles

BREAKDOWN/ PROGRESS STAART HERE

Blockout development

Landscape setup

Landscape top-down

Modular Plate trim texture setup

Modular plate assets

Pear photoscan

Pilaw rice capture

Assembled pilaw highpoly with meat placed digitally

Fake kebab skewers out of meat patty and meat cube scans.

I go over the assembled model in ZBrush and adjust finer details.

The assembled scan assets need some texture tweaking. I usually bake from high poly vertcolor to low poly and textures.

With only the color of the scans, the other parameters such as roughness are done mostly by eye, with some reference shots taken at capture time.

I made my no-budget cross-polarizing setup by cutting the polarizer (for the lamps) out of a broken LCD Monitor.

Here are my custom 3D-printed filter mounts for the cheap USB desk lamps I had.

Cross-polarizing in action. The light is mostly filtered when going through both filters at 90° rotation.

Covering the close up surfaces in felt gives them a dark albedo that lets only the actual photo subjects come out in the picture.

The setup in action.

A gif of me rotating the polarizer on the camera, this practically "fades out" the specular reflections, leaving a close equivalent for an in-game albedo texture.

Newroz Backyard - Bachelor Project (WiP)

This project was my final bachelor project for my studies at the Cologne Game Lab. (it is also still missing the last few assets tbh :p)
My goal was to depict a Kurdish scene that incorporates both the landscape and the torch march tradition of the Newroz festivities, as well as a backyard buffet scene that features some iconic Kurdish dishes or the Kurdish variants of more common Middle-Eastern dishes.

This project was quite the undertaking and I ended up using nearly every method could be used to make 3D Assets. I did regular modeling, sculpting, photo-scanning (using the cross-polarized void photogrammetry workflow), bashed together said photoscans, did shader stuffs, made particle systems and so on. To keep iteration time high, this scene is using Lumen for real-time GI in UE5. I also made use of the Quixel Bridge integration, which really allowed me to get the landscape background done in time for the deadline.