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First, I think you're environment turned out fantastic. Second, thank you for sharing your wisdom. This could save many people from failing and becoming discouraged. I have been committing many of the same sins over the past year and this made those stand out and make sense as to why they were causing me to struggle.

I can't believe I've been lied to

atleast you won't have to pay for any of Berty's vet bills

That took you A YEAR!!?? Seriously, man, I could do that in Blender in a couple of days. I can't imagine what your process is like.

Thanks for this. I never got in, but tried to. I battle with rejection sensitivity, so I struggled often to even apply and um I just knew I wasn't good enough. Some life things came up that made it harder as well. But I hadn't given up and was trying like others to get in. But yeah then the layoffs, and idk. I took a volunteer light design thing at our local theatre that I am excited for currently. It is such a brutal industry though. I guess I also just started to think it takes everything from people but doesn't even promise any work at all for that effort now.. I really look up to your SD art and you are one of the artists that I felt really inspired by. I never realized you would have been having a hard time, cause you just seemed to me so talented. But yeah can't believe the amount of over time you had put in. That sounds... very hard. I look forward to the next video.

I wasn't ready for the twist at the end

This was great, thanks for the walk and talk :)

I'll listen :)

well I'm def not going to listen, but I'm glad you're doing it

Amazing video. Thank you for sharing your experience!

nice video!

2:40 lol is that prince of persia?

Really enjoyed this breakdown, please do more like this!

This video was super helpful to watch, I am only a self taught junior artist and haven't any experience in the industry as of yet, and I already have struggled with all of the problems mentioned in this video. To be fair though it's my fault that I keep choosing unclear references that are far too complex for me to finish before burning out, and also that aren't good for modularism. It's taken this video for me to recognize that. I have shot myself in the foot every step of the way and very much need to take every bit of this advice. Thank you very much.

So refreshing to see a video that goes over the problems everyone has when making stuff! Some great tips here for getting through.

Every sentence was totally on point🤟

Is nice to see that I'm not the only one struggling in different stages, even if I'm supposed -to know- what I'm doing because I work in this proffesionally. Every environment has their unique approach, even if you have done the same thing before in terms of structure, weather, nature, etc... Before I felt like maybe I was a bit of a "bad artist" just because, sometimes the project still asked for some good amount of effort on my side to get it done... but this video remind me that is part of the process, that other artists go through this stuff too and it's okay C: thank you for this honest story!

I can't watch videos at that 20fps.....

This kind of insight and reflection into one's project work is rare. Thank you for sharing your perspective, I picked up a few things from this that I'll use for my own projects!

Did you just say you did this in a year ? And you want to tell people how not to make a environment 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 This is max a hour or 2

There are some really valuable tips in here that I had to learn in a much more time consuming way. Especially the neutral materials scene is super important. I would also mabey add to always use human reference, even if you are thinking "naw it doesn't really make sense here" I made that mistake once and won't make it again.

I clicked on this video ready to rage at you for trying to be "edgy" and "different". You know like those guys on TH-cam shorts making you feel like crap for doing certain things in Blender a certain way and what is the "correct" way. Instead what I got was a very compassionate, relatable, understanding video of someone who encapsulates the struggles and burnout of Environment Artists that we all experience. The inferiority complex of comparing our "shitty" work to those clean and crisp Masterpieces on Artstation. How we desperately want to just get things done with and start cutting corners or we lose our discipline. And that its okay to feel like that. Fantastic video my dude! Loved it! Ill be applying these tips on my next project and see how it goes :)

Great vid man, looking forward to the next environment!

This was a really good video, thank you!

Nice breakdown and congratulations on finishing your project! It looks great. What was the approximate number of polygons in your final scene?

Is there any normal art learning videos? Ones that aren't made by pedantic mouth-breathers that think there's only one way to acconplish something because it's the only way they know. God, "how not to x" how about "how not to sound like an arrogant twat." Also, you sound like your being held at gunpoint, and a weaselman

I had no idea you had a channel mate, consider me subscribed :)

You know you can spend your entire life making the perfect most realistic environments and or game but has anybody actually learned from Nintendo? And how they don't go to that length to give you a great game yet they make it beautiful enough that you don't really need a super hyped up realistic environment although I appreciate that because I really want to say just how realistic a game can actually get to and I guess that might be the drive the drives everybody to do realistic games but when you're Indie developer you know full well just how much time this is going to take you specifically if you're working on your own so maybe it'll be a great idea as an indie developer to find your common ground of what should be standard for you.And that's what we have to do as in the Developers it's to find what is common and fair for solo Developers or a small Team therefore we should not scale to industry standard because it's out of our capacity to do so so we have to scale everything down for example when you are an animator instead of doing a 22 minute episode you have to scale that down by half if you have a small team and if you're by yourself scale it down one more time from that equate it to about 6 minutes and that should be your scale down if you are solo Making the animation project yourself So this idea and our model has been scaled down three times to be able to fit within your capacity so it's 6 minutes of animation that you can produce which is plausible 12 minutes if you have a small team which is totally possible and 22 if you are standard. Now it's not just the time like that needs to be scaled down as well for example because of this we don't have the time for adding in fillers we just straight up get to the story you could probably get away with it by doing a complete filler on one episode throughout the series or maybe two or maybe once per season to fill in all the necessary information that is needed in order to get the story going in the right direction but if you can condense everything to a proportional scale to words something you could actually achieve that you won't be killing yourself and trying to do it and then making it as you would if you had a normal team to build this. And so the same principles can be applied here or pretty much anywhere just scale down to a simplified but yet quality and most importantly having fun doing it cuz if you're trying to do something too big you're going to end up giving up you're going to burn out you probably won't even get far the first place!

I just started with 3d concept art of landscapes and i was just looking for any tips, this helped a lot. I started bc i didnt enjoy time drawing characters bc they will never turn on paper as i want or imagine etc...+ it makes perspective much easier, but im having problems with textures. Im working in cinema4d and our teacher is doing everything so fast that u cant catch anything, litterally. I would actually needed some help with how to do textures.

I appreciate this kind of video! Really cool info and process insight :)

I had recently reconstructed a chateau based on old, blurred photos and the result was okay, but not satisfactory. Last weekend I walked through the city looking for similar buildings and segments and the result (not yet finished) looks much better and more realistic than before. Therefore, a valuable tip!

Great advice! Am I a hobbyist and seIf taught , and guilty of all of these. Iwas not familiar with your method of materials planning, thank you!

super useful stuff

Thanks for sharing

this was very useful, thank you

what helped me avoid this problem is just using concept arts that i recreate

22:35 that is note to myself too, is just too common to do it once you have lost the "new feel" of art after the years, you forget how satisfying is to fishing something even if it is way less than what you originally planned, great video btw, beautifully sectioned

Great video!, this is very insightful as always , big fan of your art, the "stylized materials" video series was my introduction to designer years ago, I watched them over and over, I hope you have the time for more tutorials , they are always very appreciated

That was so helpful to my mental health! Thanks for that! Good luck with everything!

hey! do you do commissions?

lol that death stranding notification sound

Those loud transitions are so unnecessary.

Thank you very much for your insight of this! As a student, it's so inspiring and informative, I'll definitely use this video when i'll try to do an environment

This is pure gold. Subbed. I can tell how transformative it was when you showed your rescope angle. I was stunned by it. And if we rescope that again, you could just include that as supplementary shots wherever you're showcasing it.

Thank you very much for sharing! Biggest tip for me was not getting lost in textures. I tend to waste SO much time on textures and will definetly work on that from now on

Thanks for the video! I could never get Romain's setup to sync the sky with the camera direction :(

This is a really great breakdown, thank you for sharing and taking the time to put it together. It was both inspiring and informative. I would like to test out your suggestions on noting mistakes down, as well as winds - it could definitely improve the flow.

Interesting video but not a fan of those jarring sounds between chapters.

Thank you so much for sharing your insight! I'll definitely watch this everytime I start a new project ^-^