Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

• - Nice job on getting the tree into zBrush, however the end result is still too high poly. Moving forward you should look into retopology techniques to get the polycount to an optimal amount. - All of your foliage and tree branches are facing the same direction, create more variation and randomise the orientation to make the end result more natural. - The dirt in the dome seems low resolution and lacking normal map detail. Look into creating variations on the dirt texture and look into vertex painting. This will help break up the repetition. - A quick and easy effect to improve your foliage is the simplegrasswind modifier in unreal. Look into this and give it a try.
• Would have been good to see your references and thought process behind this environment, as well as thinking a bit more beyond the dome - how do you get in for example? Are these crops? I would advise looking into trim sheets as these would have helped a lot with the dome. Good stab at the tree - look a bit more into how to lay out branch atlases to get the most out of them.
• This is a fun premise for a scene; the contrast of an Earth like scene within a dome on another planet and the colour contrast of verdant vegetation against the iron red tones outside. It would have been good to have greater depth to the documentation, the decision making process, R&D, ideas that were rejected or evolved. The tree asset needs work - and trees are specialised work as shown by the angular foliage cards. The geo-dome is a modular construction, but has unique UVing.