Totem on Lost Island

Heya!

This was meant for Polycount's bi-monthly environment challenge (Nov-Dez). few days late to be honest, but better late than throw it in ol' "not finished" folder XD

This started as handpainted piece, but I push it more into realistic art-style since that's what I want to work on.
I used this challenge to learn more about foliage and cryengine. it was also meant to be props only but I ended up making an environment.

All assets are made by me. I used some leaves and flower petals texture I found on textures.com/google for the highpoly, the rest are substance designer/painter/photoshop textures

Here's a link to Polycount thread: https://polycount.com/discussion/223180/the-bi-monthly-environment-art-challenge-november-december-69
And here's original concept art we used, made by Julio Cappa:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/48ayDY

I thank everyone who are giving me input and critics while doing this piece

and Thankyou for seeing my work!

Modeling - Maya/3Ds Max
Sculpting - Zbrush
Texturing - Substance
Rendering - CryEngine V

Edit 30.01.2021
my art is also on one of the banner art for polycount! noice!
https://polycount.com/discussion/224761/new-banners

close ups of the totem

Foliage close-ups

All of the Assets

all of the foliages are rendered from highpolys except the fan palm. for it I used Substance designer

some of the texture I made for this environment.

Transition texture from grassy green to brownish mud

Transition texture, a rocky brown mud

Rock Textures, in the end, I didn't use it a lot in the scene.

The process of making Lady's Bedstraw Flower:
Highpoly rendered on a plane with Substance designer.
from there I processed it in photoshop and to make Normals, Roughness, Albedo and Transmitance map.
I edited the texture a bit later in Substance Painter

The same process also for poppy flowers. inspired a lot from foliage in assassins creed. I applied what I learned from Patrick Gladys. plants stem and branch was made in treeit