The Mystical Forest
Environment Art in the UDK
The second environment that I created a timelapse video for.
Mystical Forest was a theme suggested by a friend after he saw my first timelapse video, Abandoned Hanger, so I rolled with it, and this is the end product.
Comprised of over 5000 Static-meshes, around 50 particle effects, and a terrain actor, the environment itself took me only 2 hours to create, however, the project as a whole took about 4 if you include time spent capturing and editing the footage, and then uploading to youtube.
In this project I really pushed myself to create something compositionally beautiful, and I think I succeeded. I am very pleased with the overall mood in the scene, which I acheived throught the use of dramatic colour and lighting. "Mystical Forest", is also the first natural woodland scene that I have created that has succeeded in feeling lush, and believable.
I really nailed my pipeline with this project, and am, in fact, quite proud. I am sure that in a few years I will come back and scorn this work, or maybe in a few minutes I will stumble across someone elses work that blows this out of the water, but for now, I am happy.
I hope you enjoy the video, the music is by Glitch Mob and Yeasayer!
