The New Inhabitant
The newest character in my designs is "The New Inhabitant" based on the story "The Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce. This character and subsequent environment is based on the description of the story. The character in question was never described in the story, but I did consider just creating another person in context to honor the story instead of retelling, I felt it ambiguous. With that said, the description of Carcosa is very intact from his story. Multiple strange moons, two suns, dead grassy plain, and wore away headstones, black stars in the heavens.
*If anyone has an setting and material creation options or tutorials that can help with rendering Unreal Engine 5 works please let me know. I want to have some strong resolution and character details in my renders as I am able to get out of Marmoset Toolbag 4.
Composite image using both Unreal Engine 5 and Marmoset Toolbag 4.
This was a shot dedicated all in Unreal Engine 5. This was a strange shot that I believed help give some color depth to Carcosa
Render with no additional lights in the scene apart from a HDRI from Marmoset Toolbag 4
The character is fully rigged but has some other issues involving painted weights. The rig was completed in Blender with Auto-Rig Pro.
This was another shot dedicated all in Unreal Engine 5. I am not to familiar with the render settings and textures mats of Unreal Engine 5 so there is some detail reference from Marmoset Toolbag 4