Speed Level Design UE5 - Desert Timelapse

Full Timelapse of a desert environment I made from a concept I created off of Midjourney. This environment took just a little under 2 days, and i'm happy with how it turned out in that time.
More in depth look at how I layered the ground and thought process can be found here:
• UE5 Layer Details Tuto...
Timecodes
0:00 - Blockout
1:22 - Zbrush
3:40 - Master Material
4:54 - SetDressing
8:37 - Gaea
9:35 - Foliage
10:17 - Lighting
10:45 - Final
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I'm considering making each section into its own tutorial. Comment below if you'd like to see that!

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  • @kekuncias
    @kekuncias Жыл бұрын

    This is not level design this is environment art, none the less really awesome environment.

  • @ashonline77

    @ashonline77

    Жыл бұрын

    Seems like a lot of people in the industry just use them synonymously for some reason even though its not. I clicked for a level design video as well because I'm a level designer but yes this is really amazing environment art anyway so i stayed for it. EDIT: just realized that people do this because it favours the youtube algorithm if you call it "speed level design" instead of "speed environment art/design". which makes sense as to why he mentions environment in the description but not in the title. oh well i guess whatever works.

  • @stormstudios1

    @stormstudios1

    Жыл бұрын

    level design is probably a more used search term

  • @AwesomeNuke

    @AwesomeNuke

    Жыл бұрын

    This is 100% level design.

  • @mukmoffin4296

    @mukmoffin4296

    Жыл бұрын

    This is 100% environmental art. The only thing that remotely resembles level design in this video is the brief moments of greyboxing.

  • @AwesomeNuke

    @AwesomeNuke

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mukmoffin4296 Level design isn't just GAMEPLAY stuff. It's just as much visuals as it is gameplay-driven things. Level design and Environment design are the same thing. They've been for over 10 years now.

  • @SShambler
    @SShambler Жыл бұрын

    And all done in 10 minutes, mind-blowing.

  • @joaquitox1

    @joaquitox1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@u-k Sssh dont be jealous, he clearly did it in 10 minutes

  • @jasonhemphill8525

    @jasonhemphill8525

    5 ай бұрын

    @@u-k Literally look at the video time.

  • @arthurchase8570

    @arthurchase8570

    4 ай бұрын

    🥵

  • @artem-kt2gh

    @artem-kt2gh

    4 ай бұрын

    @@u-k no shit dude

  • @asdadas30

    @asdadas30

    4 ай бұрын

    10 minutes work only for one shot???

  • @waltarron
    @waltarron Жыл бұрын

    Wow this is not what i expected from the KZread algorithm but it is certainly what i needed to see.

  • @DallasDrap

    @DallasDrap

    Жыл бұрын

    Always here for the arts!

  • @brobocops
    @brobocops8 ай бұрын

    Quixel Megascans has left the chat. Was NOT expecting sculpting stones from scratch lol

  • @loganpeavy9737
    @loganpeavy9737 Жыл бұрын

    Very well done. my favorite thing about these videos (to some extent) is not the quality of the product, which this one is very exceptional, but observing the workflow of other environmental design artist.

  • @rewwhiskas4234
    @rewwhiskas423411 ай бұрын

    Wow. As someone coming from motion design and flapping around at the moment with my first efforts in environment design, that was incredibly useful to see. Great workflow & design process. Thanks for sharing!

  • @maximilianomoretto258
    @maximilianomoretto258 Жыл бұрын

    Man, this is insane. I would love to see each step with a voice over, talking about your decision making and technicalities. For example, how do you bring the asset from UE to Zbrush and then back and textured without UVs

  • @DallasDrap

    @DallasDrap

    Жыл бұрын

    I actually just posted tutorial videos on both subjects!!

  • @WorldPremiereGaming

    @WorldPremiereGaming

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@DallasDrap great job man

  • @AndersHaalandverby
    @AndersHaalandverby Жыл бұрын

    Its inspirational to see some twice as talented as you do something awesome. But when they are one million times as talented, thats just depressing 😅 . Awesome.

  • @henrycowdery2688
    @henrycowdery26887 ай бұрын

    Great video. I would love to see a more in-depth tutorial on how you generated the cliffs (@4:57) and your thought process in Zbrush. Thanks for sharing!

  • @victorsanchez12
    @victorsanchez12 Жыл бұрын

    Please, consider making a tutorial series of this. This is amazing and would be super helpful! :)

  • @JamalBakari
    @JamalBakari Жыл бұрын

    Congrats on the new channel!

  • @Jefe___
    @Jefe___ Жыл бұрын

    This is great. Echoing others here you should definitely create some tutorials / a series where beginners could follow along and create something for the first time! There's a lot of potential there as UE5 becomes more mainstream. I'll be patiently waiting :)

  • @bad_takes
    @bad_takes Жыл бұрын

    This desert looks sick

  • @voltroniix
    @voltroniix Жыл бұрын

    Holy Effying Shait!!!! this is just absolutely mind-blowing!! the fact that when we play we do not appreciate the amount of work and experience needed to make sceneries look this amazing is crazy!! I have absolutely no idea how any of this works but you seem so experienced that it almost looks "easy" which I know it isn't lol... i can't wait to see how artificial intelligence is going to help you guys map and scene makers do great things for the gaming industry! that's awesome man!!

  • @DallasDrap

    @DallasDrap

    Жыл бұрын

    AI is already helping a great deal! The concept art for example was made in Midjourney, and if i were to model these, i can ask ChatGPT to make me a breakdown list of modular assets needed haha the future is here!

  • @sanetersoy4512
    @sanetersoy45129 ай бұрын

    Incredibly amazing!

  • @DrZou28
    @DrZou28 Жыл бұрын

    WoooW looks amazing

  • @DRFFilmsProductions
    @DRFFilmsProductions Жыл бұрын

    2:20 and that ladies and gentlemen is how baby boulders are made

  • @NathanHarris83
    @NathanHarris83 Жыл бұрын

    So satisfying...

  • @georgejenson7402
    @georgejenson7402 Жыл бұрын

    I often find that I wish I grew up earlier so I'd be like 10 when the Wii came out, but then I see this and wish I was born later where every game could looks like this to my 10 yr old self. (You have the most free time and I enjoyed games the most around that age)

  • @kingarthur3847
    @kingarthur3847 Жыл бұрын

    oh yes please some tutorial this is great work !

  • @LiveUPMedia
    @LiveUPMedia Жыл бұрын

    This is insane well done man ❤

  • @RisingJake
    @RisingJake Жыл бұрын

    Very impressive, sir. I'm a newcomer to this platform and have been looking around at the talent that makes such wonderful art. Great job!

  • @isaac.3347

    @isaac.3347

    11 ай бұрын

    Why hello there, seems we both got recommended the same video lol

  • @Ell-May

    @Ell-May

    9 ай бұрын

    Hi @@isaac.3347 this is such a random question lol but, do you know where you was recommended from to this video please?

  • @isaac.3347

    @isaac.3347

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Ell-May I didn't get this video from someone else rather I have simply been watching a crap ton of UE5 videos lately so this just popped up into my feed so I watched it, then I saw my buddy (RJ) so I thought it was funny how we both saw the same video.

  • @Ell-May

    @Ell-May

    9 ай бұрын

    @@isaac.3347 Oh haha, thank you for letting me know! I've just started out in UE5 myself and creating speed through videos - I wondered if you see this on a platform that I could show my channel to as well. Thanks so much for letting me know. Have a lovely weekend :)

  • @jiggalojonski
    @jiggalojonski Жыл бұрын

    Wow beautiful

  • @doudoups1098
    @doudoups1098 Жыл бұрын

    C'est quand-même affolant le travail que ça représente, j'ai moi-même déjà créé des niveaux sur certains jeux et le temps passe si vite.

  • @Israel2099
    @Israel2099 Жыл бұрын

    Dude this is insane, you deserve more views

  • @lunariancore
    @lunariancore Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing

  • @stephen-zj2vt
    @stephen-zj2vt Жыл бұрын

    hey, im new to UE5 and am still learning all the tools and tricks. i would love to see a video on the way that you manipulated the landscape tools and created differen levels of land

  • @josesierra4577
    @josesierra4577 Жыл бұрын

    This was awesome

  • @ekikak5094
    @ekikak50948 ай бұрын

    so beautiful

  • @incredifall
    @incredifall Жыл бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @xec1
    @xec110 ай бұрын

    i was jsut expecting you to use some megascans for the rocks, but DAMN you actually took the time to model them

  • @MrBashem
    @MrBashem Жыл бұрын

    Wow the tool is pretty amazing.

  • @yohann501able
    @yohann501able10 ай бұрын

    Très belle maîtrise, , excellent à regarder, magnifique

  • @Teemoauto
    @TeemoautoАй бұрын

    amazing!

  • @kinggimped
    @kinggimped5 ай бұрын

    That was amazing

  • @andrewhevalo4154
    @andrewhevalo4154 Жыл бұрын

    Insane!

  • @losk3442
    @losk3442 Жыл бұрын

    I don’t know shit about how any of this works, only maybe surface level knowledge. But damn, he modeled, gave texture and lighting to this. That’s amazing and this scenery is beautiful.

  • @PersonianOld
    @PersonianOld Жыл бұрын

    It's so satisfying seeing something go from blocky and boring to look at to THIS

  • @DallasDrap

    @DallasDrap

    Жыл бұрын

    Anyone can do it! And i hope to empower people by seeing the process, doing breakdowns and making more tutorials!

  • @Touchgrassplz
    @Touchgrassplz Жыл бұрын

    as a beginner in UE for lookdev, this is the quality and skill i aspire to.. amazing work !

  • @jcurry_clips8580
    @jcurry_clips8580 Жыл бұрын

    this is aweomse!

  • @StegoYTB
    @StegoYTB Жыл бұрын

    keep going like that bro

  • @GabrielSantos-dc9tg
    @GabrielSantos-dc9tg Жыл бұрын

    Well F*king done. Dude your are awesome that was insane

  • @Slow_Boy741
    @Slow_Boy741 Жыл бұрын

    Designer Master 🔥

  • @blackdevilb
    @blackdevilb Жыл бұрын

    Commenting below because I'd like to see every section as step by step tutorial and would love to buy one (if you would to explain nodes for materials in detail, many brush off as it is a common knowlage!) Wonderful job, well done

  • @itsbayside6802
    @itsbayside6802 Жыл бұрын

    looks very cool

  • @Berserk_0_
    @Berserk_0_8 ай бұрын

    ustam, eline sağlık çok güzel oldu.

  • @escapeundergroundgame
    @escapeundergroundgame Жыл бұрын

    Very cool!

  • @smallspace6896
    @smallspace6896 Жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of that one mission from Halo 4 excellent work looks awesome

  • @deepmusic2456
    @deepmusic2456 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome 🎉🎉🎉

  • @orbitals5281
    @orbitals528110 күн бұрын

    The amount of logic for that rock material hurts my brain.

  • @mark_kulik
    @mark_kulik6 ай бұрын

    Just insane….!!!

  • @lilfern3466
    @lilfern3466 Жыл бұрын

    Another KZreadr I watch (Sykoo) also used to confuse environment and level design. This is environment design. Great job, though. It looks awesome in the end.

  • @tomstrzal
    @tomstrzal4 ай бұрын

    Very nice! 🙂

  • @caner_spyro
    @caner_spyro Жыл бұрын

    amazing 😯😯❤❤

  • @tomgarden
    @tomgarden10 ай бұрын

    Because there is no ‘level’ (I.e a 3D environment to lead the player through a set of experiences) there is nothing to ‘design’ (I.e designing requires a brief/an objective) This person is simply creating an environment. Typically, you ‘grey box’ the 3D environment first. This is done whilst also keeping note of what player experiences (puzzles, narrative triggers, confined areas causing the player to loose track of objective etc etc) these are worked out by a design brief usually made by the level designer or game designer. After grey box is complete, you test it and once you are happy, you replace the grey 3D boxes used as place holders with real objects. This is why this isn’t a video showing level design. Simply environment design based off concept art. Still very impressive stuff!

  • @EZZYLAND
    @EZZYLAND Жыл бұрын

    godlike

  • @KakosLykosZero
    @KakosLykosZero Жыл бұрын

    Amazing work...and all this knowledge over multiple programs (UE5, Gaea, zbrush, photoshop) amazing! You say this took a little under 2 days, is this in hours? like it took a bit less than 48 hours? Because this is hella impressive for such amount of time! This looks like a scene that could be used in a super realistic roadrunner movie (from looney tunes). Amazing....

  • @DallasDrap

    @DallasDrap

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah in total if i calculate hours it was probably around 16-20hrs but i say 2 days cause i did it over the span of 2 days haha And thanks! I hope to empower people to see what can be done in a short amount of time as well as how everyone can create good art without having to take months or weeks to do so themselves!

  • @damsen978

    @damsen978

    Жыл бұрын

    I think that's the speed of level design once you get good at it. Nobody would do this as fast without enough experience on all these programs he used. So massive props for his years of dedication.

  • @joshuaruggles219
    @joshuaruggles219 Жыл бұрын

    Saw the GPU crash at 7:39 😬 Gotta love when that happens! Great work btw.

  • @pvtryan

    @pvtryan

    Жыл бұрын

    that crash is so annoying

  • @DallasDrap

    @DallasDrap

    Жыл бұрын

    Always XD funny thing was it was stable unless i was recording still though, we push through!

  • @3DPaz
    @3DPaz Жыл бұрын

    cool!

  • @BestTechnoMixes
    @BestTechnoMixes9 ай бұрын

    For cinematic shots, this is beautiful, for actual games, not so much of a level. Good work either way!

  • @iiyctouxdgeometrydash7074
    @iiyctouxdgeometrydash7074 Жыл бұрын

    Lmao bro final work looks better than reference, that`s freakin insane!

  • @pascaladochinoochi320
    @pascaladochinoochi320 Жыл бұрын

    C’est la question j me posais il y a quelque jours merci pour la vidéo elle est géniale 🤩 👍🏾🚶🏾‍♂️

  • @tranduy6891
    @tranduy6891 Жыл бұрын

    Tôi rất thích xem quá trình làm phong cảnh của bạn hay ra nhiều video như này nữa nhé

  • @HeimdalAvNordvegen
    @HeimdalAvNordvegen4 ай бұрын

    Awesome timelapse! Did you do everything in UE5? Would've been awesome to have a in depth tutorial of the different stages that is somewhat beginner friendly. Especially the 3D Modelling, the making of some of the assets. If you did that in UE5 with some of the plugins that would be awesome to see. I think UE could become veeery strong if it became as vast as for example blender is in that aspect. Awesome work! 😊

  • @alanfernandes3477
    @alanfernandes3477Ай бұрын

    I'd buy a detailed tutorial of this video. amazing!

  • @joey_wittmann
    @joey_wittmann Жыл бұрын

    Hell ya 🔥

  • @charleskelvinamacanin8197
    @charleskelvinamacanin81979 ай бұрын

    you are a god

  • @lmeier48
    @lmeier483 ай бұрын

    very good, I only need to learn all that tools individually so i can do a similar ...

  • @jixal
    @jixal9 ай бұрын

    Looks great! I wonder what the tri coint and draw calls are for this though, looks heavy.

  • @DomeShot52
    @DomeShot52 Жыл бұрын

    Nicely done! Idc what people want to call it, I call it skills. Really amazing work and artistic abilities. 🔥🔥

  • @Ell-May

    @Ell-May

    Жыл бұрын

    Completely agree! Such an amazing environment you’ve created here 😍

  • @StarkTech47
    @StarkTech478 ай бұрын

    This is really impressive. I am curious of what you did with ZBrush with those multiple meshes forming one big rock. Is it to make easier the texturing by using a simple image and different types of noise instead of using a dedicated software like Substance Painter?

  • @Mikelica69
    @Mikelica69 Жыл бұрын

    Wow!!! 😊

  • @Blerpbloop
    @Blerpbloop Жыл бұрын

    I hope that UE adds a lighting option called Minimal Lighting that illuminates the entire level with a weak light. This would be effective for designers to see shapes and colours better while positioning details. The hard shadows of the Lumen lighting makes it hard to see some things. So does turning off the lighting physics. That Minimal Lighting option would fix that.

  • @bruno_madalozzo

    @bruno_madalozzo

    8 ай бұрын

    You can try to fix it with indirectional light or post production

  • @maxek46
    @maxek46 Жыл бұрын

    This is great! Been feeling increasingly inspired to start doing landscape/environment art design like this, but a little intimidated by additional software beyond free UE. Are Zbrush and other programs you use essential and/or expensive?

  • @matthewboyer4212

    @matthewboyer4212

    Жыл бұрын

    If you're a student, Zbrush is US$10/6mo. Otherwise, it's ~$20/mo, or $900 for a perpetual license. It's pretty expensive, so I wouldn't recommend it for starting out. I only have it as I've been screwing around with another Maxon product as a student. At the same time, I can't name anything that matches it. Blender is slightly worse than a jack of all trades, and while you do have sculpting in it, your mileage will vary. Gaea's free.

  • @33Verst
    @33Verst Жыл бұрын

    Are people gonna start using UE5 now instead of Blender? Like bloody hell look at this!

  • @rozrywkowycthulhu1350
    @rozrywkowycthulhu1350 Жыл бұрын

    wow!!!

  • @kecheever
    @kecheever Жыл бұрын

    You did the impossible, you made that look easy. ❤

  • @nwpmen2

    @nwpmen2

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm sayin!!

  • @Arthr0

    @Arthr0

    Жыл бұрын

    But it is not easy as it looks

  • @izzi917

    @izzi917

    Жыл бұрын

    The hardest thing you could ever do is to try and recreate what was made in a timelapse

  • @kecheever

    @kecheever

    Жыл бұрын

    @Arthr0 I can't even comprehend digital wizardry, I stick with acrylics. He's put a lot of time and effort that's very visible and admired.

  • @chris09423
    @chris094239 ай бұрын

    idc what you all say, I actually learned a lot in this one video

  • @RigoUnreal
    @RigoUnreal2 ай бұрын

    I love how you are so in flowstate that you not even click off this windows message.

  • @sirhkhk6005
    @sirhkhk6005 Жыл бұрын

    Very nice work :)

  • @adrianocirillo6269
    @adrianocirillo626910 ай бұрын

    I have a doubt, regarding the cliff made on zbrush, is it worth doing the retopology process, considering the potential of nanite technology? I mean even if you have a bad topology, after sculpting a cliff, is it like "nanite will take care of that"? Really great environment btw :)

  • @Blerpbloop
    @Blerpbloop Жыл бұрын

    The KZread algorithm always knows what I need to see. This video is excellent.

  • @Fortunate_Son979
    @Fortunate_Son979 Жыл бұрын

    Man, that is absolutely sick. You need to make some videos on how materials is setted up, and those sky clouds setups. Subscripted and wait:)

  • @michaelkukula5926
    @michaelkukula5926 Жыл бұрын

    Would love to see a tutorial on how you make your materials :-)

  • @avistryfe4534

    @avistryfe4534

    8 ай бұрын

    There is many really good tutorials online. Just make sure you are using same versions/addons or you will be blocked someplace scratching your head looking for buttons that arent there.

  • @rainerzufahl
    @rainerzufahl Жыл бұрын

    How many FPS do you really get in a scene with this level of detail? Are you using nanite to help with performance? And how large in filesize is this scene, if exported into a playable state?

  • @anytng999
    @anytng9999 күн бұрын

    Hi, amazing work. In the video, you removed this part of the timelapse 4:53, did you use the same technique to model the first rock as the other rocks in the scene. Or did you reuse the first rock and rotated+scale to place on the other spots?

  • @thebigscreen1
    @thebigscreen1 Жыл бұрын

    I literally went this 😃😃 to 😵‍💫😵‍💫 So complicated...it is

  • @nxtboyIII
    @nxtboyIII Жыл бұрын

    This is incredible! Very good job. But it looks like at 4:52 you just skipped over placing some of the meshes. But this is really well done. Also I noticed you're doing something with the rectangles you are placing, it looks like you're using some kind of tool to cause the edges of the rectangle to curve downward? How do you do that?

  • @vecciopol4608
    @vecciopol4608 Жыл бұрын

    wow! i don't know what can i say

  • @1Chitus
    @1Chitus Жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate the hard work

  • @austinbaccus
    @austinbaccus Жыл бұрын

    7.8/10, too much water. Nah just kidding, that was great to watch. You showcased so many different skills in one video!

  • @ocbat
    @ocbat7 ай бұрын

    Help pls. When I click Landscape mode, I have nothing on the left side when landscape settings should open, idk how to fix this problem 😅

  • @Dre2fish
    @Dre2fish Жыл бұрын

    step by step tutorial??? i love it

  • @WONDER-S
    @WONDER-S Жыл бұрын

    이사람 작업하는 방식 마음에 드네.

  • @UE_5_beginner
    @UE_5_beginner10 ай бұрын

    Would you say that starting building with blank boxes is the best way to get your design done?

  • @erksp7961
    @erksp7961 Жыл бұрын

    The process was the real art here! Unpractical for games, but methods for inspiration nontheless.

  • @CorleoBabar
    @CorleoBabar Жыл бұрын

    Looks like Tattooine or Arrakis. Very cool

  • @jhushsmith4785
    @jhushsmith4785 Жыл бұрын

    My brain at 2:19 🥵🥵🥵

  • @lifeguardval14
    @lifeguardval144 ай бұрын

    Now time to bake the nav mesh

  • @schneemannconstantin8871
    @schneemannconstantin8871 Жыл бұрын

    This Level is a Peace of Art. Must be fun to Play it.

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