Process

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First(Concept), I determined the pieces I wanted to make, and quickly broke it down piece by piece to make them modulers.

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Second(Render), 

Testing out Shaders with texture to see

what it looks like in Vray.

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Problem :

Reflections, large texture size, many lighting

setup increased an already long

rendering time.

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Solution :

UE4 has perfectly suited my needs.

I've worked with a graphic programmer

for a few days to figure out how PBR works in UE4.

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Third(Modeling),

Most of low poly walls, ceiling and pillars are all modular.

For the statue, I sculpted the base figure in zbrush and took it into

Marvelous Designer to create the cloth.

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Fourth(Texture),

I used Photoshop for PBR texture creation, useing Marble and noise

textures for the base color map. For roughness, I used Brightness in

Color picker (which has only 0 - 100 value) to support a linear workflow.

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I used old-decoration textures and import them into Zbrush

to polish Normal map.

I also used Quixel suite to create base normal maps quickly.

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I experimented with the roughness setting in the materials to

see what they could contribute to my end render. Over all, I was

pleased with what they contributed.

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Something I leard after the fact :

I later realized that I had more controll over masks in UE4 than I initially thought. I could have used more values when creating roughness maps and then edited them in engine for quicker turn around.

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