Originally this project was to take setting within a forest of giant trees with the elvish buildings extruding from trees connected by bridges. This quickly then changed to a more approachable woodland setting. I needed to learn new software such as speed tree to accomplish this environment in the allotted time of 3 Weeks. I also needed to source most of the materials from Quixel to keep efficient. I held with an English theme for the setting to keep it easier for me to replicate foliage and objects and place them within the scene. 

I started with the terrain to grasp an indication of the layout. I used vector painting with world tessellation to achieve a realistic look to the floor.  I then started to develop trees and assets around the theme of English Folk, seen in the Stonehenge lookalike monuments.

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The main objective that I wanted to challenge was bringing the models within the scene together, and linking them to tell a story. The use of Ivy and moss was to not only age the models but also to connect them visually.

The scene is well optimised if not overusing foliage a little because I could afford it. With further tweaks of optimisation this scene could smoothly run on low spec PC's. Images 5 & 6 show some of the optimisation within my level.