Judge feedback

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• Rollercoaster station is a great idea. You need to ask yourself, how long has this station been left un-used. Months/Years/ longer? Is this a themed coaster? It says Journey to the center of the earth, so you could have themed it up to be more like an underground cave system or something - time depending. It doesnt look like the front car part is attacked to the main seating area. Either it would be all one piece or it would be bolted on to the seating area, or looking in UE4 its there is no connection arms attaching itself to the other carts. Small detail: But you could look at welds to the sculpts for where different solid parts of metal join, instead of just intersecting the meshes. The details on the coaster seating area and the car parts: All the areas where you have exposed metal coming through is abit unnatural. You need to ask yourself what is rubbing against the painted metal so much and so hard that its removing the paint, especially under the hand rail in front of the seat. Im guessing you used one of the smart materials in Substance Painter that added edge wear. You could have added abit more detail to the hood of the car, a bonnet, latch to open it etc. Minor detail but would be nice, if you have the time. You could add similar wear that you have on the track pipes to the hand rails every now and then, instead of a uniformed damage/wear to it. Remember that most man made things in life are made up of a number of different pieces and would be welded together or compressed etc, so you would have overlaps, bolts holding things in place etc. With something as large as your control booth you have it as all once piece with another piece sitting on top. When you should be made of of different pieces of metal pressed together, so you would have a few rivets holding it together, and maybe an access door to get to the wiring inside. You could maybe add some wear and tear on the concrete flooring, or cracks etc. Maybe making a set of alpha damage trim sheets that you can over lay ontop of the edges of the concrete? Nice detail on the top exposed part of the metal runner where the wheels rub against it, maybe try and have it so its not so perfectly uniformed. The parallax mapping can be nice, but if you look at the image of the red bricks you can see the mortar stretching up the sides of the bricks where it should all be red brick. Again, with your lighting how long has it been since this coaster was last operational. Would all the lights be working? Some on/off or flickering? Might have been nice to see some cables running up/along the walls connecting to a fuse box and onto the wall lights. Something to break up the large empty spaces on the walls. Posters/signs or even some themed items. With the track tunnel: in UE4 it looks like it goes on straight. I never knew it was a drop. Maybe add some soft lights to show your going down? Nice use of blueprints for some items. (Light mesh - decal - Pointlight) Overall its a very nice piece. All the feedback i have mentioned above are all small thinks, nothing major with is always good. Best of luck.
• I like that you started with an idea of how you wanted the space to work but be open to inspiration while researching and finding reference. It would have been good to see more reference of various ride staging areas and then creating a new drawing of the space. I can’t see a block out. This is a vital step to the creation of an environment and not one to miss. Scale and topology of models looks good. I can’t see any wireframes but the silhouettes look to contain enough geometry. Good to see PBR being used in both asset texturing and tiling textures. I think more care could have been taken when building the environment so as to avoid intersecting geometry and making parts feel more grounded. The parallax of the brick work looks a bit too strong. The lighting works but it could have been more themed to the “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”. Dimming the lighting in the space and having a red/orange glow from inside the tunnel would have really enhanced the look of the scene. Good to see a small but detailed scene though.