[CE3] Black Forest environment(WIP)

It looks really flat and the colors are pretty bland, common man it's a forest, you can make it way more beautiful if you add a lot of nice colors and a nice lighting that go trough the leaves.

You should also work on a 'focus' point in your scene, putting some random shots of a forest isn't interesting, make something like a really hold barn, an antenna station, a waterfall, idk, but think about a central piece, and work around that, with a nice landscape behind, it will looks amazing. If you are making a scene, always think about a story behind your pictures.

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So please, add some colors already.

I like it, but it looks like a lot of set pieces - how big is this, are there any pics of higher angles or wider panoramas?

Useful? Relevant?

That looks already better ! What about adding some colors ? A small amount of yellow and blue one some ferns/pine trees can break the monotony of the scene, the amount of green is nice imo, but it's still too grey

Honestly the amount of colors in the scene really depends on the mood he wants to portray.

If dark wet and depressing is your goal then you definitely achieved it! (looks awesome so far btw)

I like where you're going with this scene and I like your portfolio. A few comments regarding it:

• Downloading of screenshots seems to be broken.
• If there is a provider that allows you to embed high-res videos, and not too much work to implement, I'd go with that (instead of vimeo).
• Bigger versions of the screenshots would be nice to see.
• Individual renders of your best art assets would be interesting.

Keep up the good work!

Is this on CryEngine or CryEngine 3? If it isn't CryEngine download a copy of CryEngine and copy the level over, there are much better vegetation assets in it than the ones you are using. Should have all the grass and bushes/ferns that my level used in Ryse.

Obviously you are going for a different mood but the ground assets are the same but look better with more variety, you should also be able to place far more of them as I would assume your PC is more powerful than an XboxOne.

(ignore the motion blur)

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This is how darkroot garden should have been !

Ah if you made them yourself good job, vegetation is hard to get right. The guy who made the stuff for Ryse is probably one of the best in the industry so don't worry if your stuff doesn't quite hit that high.

Can't offer any advice on how to make them as I have no idea.

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Honestly the amount of colors in the scene really depends on the mood he wants to portray.

If dark wet and depressing is your goal then you definitely achieved it! (looks awesome so far btw)

You can make something varied color wise, and still have a depressing mood, I don't tell him to make something in pink and ultra flashy but just to add some variation because it doesn't looks like a real forest atm imo.