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European Alleyway

Tools Unreal Engine 5, Maya, ZBrush, Substance Designer, Substance Painter

Status Work in Progress

Responsible for All assets & materials

About

A technical case study in procedural PBR materials and lifelike environments

A technical case study focused on authoring a procedural PBR material library and building a "lifelike environment" using modern AAA workflows.

All assets and materials in this study were created entirely from scratch by me. This project demonstrates the complete environment art pipeline, from procedural texturing to modular asset creation.

– Materials: Authored a 100% procedural PBR material library (plaster, cobblestone, brick) in Substance Designer.
– Assets: Responsible for the entire asset pipeline: high-poly sculpting (ZBrush), modeling (Maya), baking, and texturing.

* Developed with professional feedback and guidance from Sarah Swenson (Senior Environment Artist, Naughty Dog).

Unreal Engine 5 Maya ZBrush Substance Designer Substance Painter Environment Art

European Alleyway — full render

Blockout

Block Out & Concept Art

Concept art generated by Midjourney

Scene blockout stage

Concept art reference

Materials

Material Layering

Material Layering — Stone Floor

Brick Wall

Brick wall material sheet — Brick wall — material sheet

Brick wall material animated turntable — Brick wall — Different dirt level applied

Brick wall detail render — Brick wall — detail render

Stone Floor

Stone floor material set — Stone floor — material set

Stone floor material animated turntable — Stone floor — Moss, Dirt, Clean

Stone floor material pack — Stone floor — full material pack

Wood

Wood material — Wood

Wood material pack — Wood — material pack

Terracotta

Terracotta close-up — Terracotta

Terracotta material pack — Terracotta — material pack

Asset Breakdown

Asset Breakdown

Maya, ZBrush, Substance Designer, Substance Painter

High Poly Sculpts

Brick high poly sculpt 1 — High poly — brick 1

Brick high poly sculpt 2 — High poly — brick 2

Brick high poly sculpt 3 — High poly — brick 3

Brick high poly sculpt 4 — High poly — brick 4

Textured Results

Brick textured result 1 — Textured — brick 1

Brick textured result 2 — Textured — brick 2

Brick textured result 3 — Textured — brick 3

Plant Assets

Plant asset pack