This is one of the Environments created for Quixel's 'Ninety Days' project, during which each individual artist in our team was tasked with completing as many different environment as possible, all in a timespan of 90 days.
Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca2ME4Wy0eM
I approached this environment like a painting and I used quite a bit of traditional renaissance environment paintings as a reference both for colors and composition. I built it in layers with the forest connecting the planes and to help add some depth and continuity to the environment.
Everything for 'Ninety Days' was created using the Epic Games and Quixel Ecosystem, meaning we used Megascans, Metahumans, Sketchfab and the Epic Marketplace.
A massively heartfelt thankyou to the amazing people I get to work alongside with:
https://www.artstation.com/jakobkeudel
https://www.artstation.com/isaccrafoord
https://www.artstation.com/sagadesign
https://www.artstation.com/alectucker
https://www.artstation.com/danwoje
https://www.artstation.com/jackm
https://www.artstation.com/corshmell
https://www.artstation.com/mattoztalay
Animated Sequence
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