Mystic Isle
Base on a concept by
https://www.artstation.com/sephirothart
small project i made in my time at Think Tank Training Center, i wanted to try doing a hand painted scene since i have never attempted something like that, making the water and crystal shades were probably the part i enjoyed most on this one.
08/2019
Mystic Isle
i used a flipbook (left) to animate the opacity of the waterfall. a panning squiggly texture that gets distorted (by the texture on the right) combined with the other 2 textures to create the flow effect
Breakdown of the water shader
the crystal shader uses a packed masks texture to dictate the colors of the crystal, along with some animated emmisive, refraction and opacity
Zbrush sculpt
Breakdown of the stone shader, i used a flip book here for the animated glowing bits. i used Cinema4D and After Effects to get that animation with help from a friend
Zbrush sculpt