Desert city

“...the only city not to have fallen in the path of war since the day it was founded. It changed hands but had never seen war. Its people reckoned this was as much for its beauty as for its impenetrable walls. It was told that no war chief or no emperor could bear to see its beauty tarnished once they laid eyes on this city.” * I continue to work on the concepts for the graphic novel Seyyah. Today I'm sharing the city of Tarkaca with a small section of the story. Those who want to support…

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The city of desert

This project was designed to practice sculpting and applying trimsheets on a modular kit with an environment concept art. I really tried to focus on creating textures and trims that blended together for the environment. The plants are from Quixel. Also, I learned how to sculpt edge wear damage normals for the buildings to add some easy damage and used RGB masks to add details on a second UV set onto the modular pieces. This project took a bit over a month in total and I'm proud of how it…