Open World Landscape

This outdoor island scene in Unreal Engine as a portfolio environment study, using a Udemy tutorial as a starting point and then polishing it into a portfolio-ready showcase. I sculpted and painted the terrain with Unreal’s Landscape tools with a reference on the Natural Landscapes of Southern California, dressed the world with the Foliage system (dense pines, flower meadows, and clean sightlines using the FAB Landscape Pro 2.0), and dialed in cinematic lighting with Good Sky for both golden-hour beams and a moody night look. For water, I combined FAB Water Materials with Unreal’s Experimental Water Plugin to create a cohesive river-to-lake flow with believable shorelines—resulting in a readable, atmospheric environment that highlights my worldbuilding workflow and iteration speed.