RUSSIAN APARTMENT

ARTIST

Mikhail Beresten SOFTWARE

Unreal Engine 4, Blender, Substance Painter, Zbrush, Marvelous Designer

Environment and level artist Mikhail Beresten spent four months experimenting with master materials, physically based rendering, lighting and other details for this photorealistic apartment. Currently studying at university in Khabarovsk, Russia, Beresten’s aim is to create his own game titled Relieve, and this environment is a small part of that. “In creating this image I wanted to cause feelings of home comfort, nostalgia and days gone by. There was bright life, but it is in the past,” he reveals.

Beresten recounts his pipeline by dividing his assets into four groups: furniture, cloth, modules and small assets. For almost all of the furniture in the apartment, he utilised trim sheets. “The essence of the method is that you can use the same texture multiple times for different objects,” he adds. “For interesting variations of wooden materials and dividing furniture into Soviet and modern styles, I implemented a material function that controls saturation, brightness, and contrast of albedo. Also, I made simple roughness and specular control.”

Cloth meshes were simulated in Marvelous Designer and finalised in Zbrush. After sculpting some wrinkles, Beresten made low-poly versions of clothes and baked all wrinkles to normal map in Substance Painter. “To create walls, ceiling and floors I modelled structures in Blender and assembled them in Unreal Engine. All modules use tileable textures. I also added dirt blending through vertex painting to get more irregular surfaces.”

IN CREATING THIS IMAGE I WANTED TO CAUSE FEELINGS OF HOME COMFORT, NOSTALGIA AND DAYS GONE BY. THERE WAS BRIGHT LIFE, BUT IT IS IN THE PAST

SOFTWARE Maya, Zbrush, Mari, V-ray, Nuke YEAR CREATED 2019

I wanted to push my modelling skills and I thought a reptilian creature would be a good way to challenge myself in Zbrush. I noticed that most reptiles people chose to create in CG were dinosaurs or dragons, so I wanted to try something a little unique and I thought the chameleon would be a great idea!

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ARTIST Lee Jia Min LOCATION Singapore I am a student from Think Tank Training Centre, and my dream is to become a texture artist for film and TV.