Axel Bauer

A fictional scene during sunset where a female samurai stands on top of a mountain with high grass and a tree next to her. She looks far into the distance where a high mountain can be seen while holding her sword in the right hand. In front of the mountain is a valley with several hills. On top of one hill in the center, a town can be seen in the fog.

Fantasy Landscape

Creating a concept for an environment as well as implementing it using Unreal Engine 5.

This was my first experience in creating a landscape in Unreal Engine 5 and part of an assignment in the course “Environmental Arts”.

When I think of virtual worlds, I think of wide worlds to explore – places that might not exist like this in the real world. That’s also what inspired the look and feel of this work: The feeling of standing on top of a hill, a distant city in the background, dreamy lighting during a sunset … Somehow you really feel the warmth of the summer on your skin, hear the sound of birds and chirping insects in the background.

First, I intended to test two ideas in this project:

  • Using volumetric clouds on surface level
  • Using a 3D scanned city far in the distance in order to test the capabilities of Nanite

Though I didn’t find any capabilities in order to achieve the first goal using Unreal Engine 5.0, I achieved the second as the city blends in quite naturally in my opinion.

A fictional scene during sunset where a female samurai stands on top of a mountain with high grass and a tree next to her. She looks far into the distance where a high mountain can be seen while holding her sword in the right hand. In front of the mountain is a valley with several hills. On top of one hill in the center, a town can be seen in the fog.
A fictional scene during sunset where a female samurai stands on top of a mountain with high grass and a tree next to her. She looks far into the distance where a high mountain can be seen while holding her sword in the right hand. In front of the mountain is a valley with several hills. On top of one hill in the center, a town can be seen in the fog.
A short dolly / flyover