Level Art in UE4: How to Create It and How to Sell It

What the talk is about

Denys Rutkovskyi shows how to build an expressive level in Unreal Engine 4 quickly and why it is worth selling such work on the Unreal Engine Marketplace. He made a rocky level in about 50 hours. He began with photo references and a rough sketch for himself, then built simple blockout meshes of all objects in 3ds Max and put them into one sculpting project, where he detailed everything in a single pass with custom brushes, so the detail level stays consistent. The organic rocks were optimized automatically, without manual topology. The level has 26 unique objects, and fog changes how the scene reads quite a lot. The speaker then argues that the Marketplace gives artists creative freedom, refreshes a portfolio and can become extra income. Useful for level artists and 3D artists.