Overview:

Arcana Forest is a map inspired by a fantastic world in the mold of a combat arena. Where a squad of 4 players with different characters perform various quests and loot items, face bosses until completing all tasks.

I did a search for real references inspired by the Black Forest in Europe and the USA, with a focus on creating narrower areas. Allied to researching real areas I used my art books about DnD, World of Warcraft, Diablo, The Witcher, Skyrim and Dota 2, as a reference as well.

After the creation of the world and narrative involving the map. I started my work of creating sketch's of the map layout. After the first definition of what the layout would be. I started blocking work in Maya, making the link with Unreal. So I could do the whole blocking process in Maya and test in Unreal, all my level iterative process.

After several iterations and feedbacks. I arrive at the final result of the map. From there I started the process of applying assets, light, FX and texture painting on the floor.