Emperors Corridor

This project was created during my environment art mentorship with Alex Beddows and Skill Tree. The scene is inspired by the "Emperor’s Corridor" in the Czech Republic.

I focused on combining skills developed in previous projects to create a scene with strong composition and lighting.

High-poly assets were sculpted in ZBrush, with Houdini used to displace and generate detailed meshes before creating optimized low-poly versions. I used Substance Painter for baking and texturing assets, and Substance Designer to create several rock and snow materials. Additionally, I developed two Houdini tools, one for landscape generation and another to procedurally place snow on selected objects.

Foliage and trees were sourced from the Unreal Marketplace and Quixel Megascans.