Welcome to The Empire Monthly Challenge!
You are all welcome to stretch your artist legs. This is a good way to help push yourself either outside of your comfort zone for maximum learning or out of your artist block your dealing with.
While there are not winners or prizes this is more about the personal challenge. It should also be noted that the deadline is more of a timer to when the next challenge should start and not a finish by date for the current challenge.
Modifiers are optional rules for the challenge that allow you to push your skills even further!
Environment Challenge - Environmental Storytelling
Saloon Incident
A scene with a story, things went down in this small salloon...
Your task is to replicate this mood into your environment with the use of props, decals and lighting, it's up to you if you want to make the props by yourself, it's totally fine to use assets from other projects or marketplaces to get to the goal faster.
Prop Challenge - Hero Modelling
Batak Houses
This challenge revolves around making one of the houses based of those from the Batak peoples of North Sumatra, Indonesia.
The houses have some interesting silhouettes, aim to capture this and be sure to do some research to get to know the materials they used in their buildings.
Substance Challenge - Material Focus
Cape Pillar Sea Cliffs
Located on Tasman Island, Australia, these cliffs hold the record for the tallest sea cliffs in the southern hemisphere(over 300 meters in height!)
The focus lays on getting organic, chunky shapes with believable wear layered on top. Make sure to take a close look at the reference for this.
Substance Challenge - Material Focus
Worn Down Stairs
This staircase has been through some stuff, some steps missing complete chunks, cracks, chipped damage...
Sell this look in your material, get deep into that wear while keeping it from going too noisy.
