Jay's Saloon - Merry Christmas 🎅

I've designed this as my Christmas 2023 stream holding loop. The asset is called Retropunk Saloon by Leartes Studios for Unreal Engine: https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/YDmJa/retropunk-saloon-environment

In the original, the sign read "Tim's Saloon". I exported it to Blender and turned it into Jay's Saloon with a new text object and added extrusion, with materials added in Substance Painter. I wanted to focus on the outside and turn the scene into a winter environment, so I've used Ultra Dynamic Sky to add falling snow particles and the snow covered landscape with material effects. Lastly I added several dead trees and debris to the ground so that the animation would work from all angles. I had some trouble painting foliage objects on the background mountains because they were tiny and scaled up rather large, so I've scaled them up in Blender and re-imported them into Unreal Engine.

This was a lot of fun to do, I might turn this into one of those 2 hour YouTube videos with chill music underneath so we can all watch it in the background during the holidays. Merry Christmas everyone!!