Stylized MC Escher Waterfall
I had made some skyward sword inspired textures a while back but felt compelled to reacreate a MC Escher work in UE so I decided to make it stylized using the textures! I was also inspired by Jasmin Habezai-Fekri stylized work which has put me in the mood to make something stylized.
When originally making the illusion I was just gonna do everything in Blender using render layer magic to make the illusion cause I thought cutting the geo perfectly to make it appear as it is would be too hard... But it was surprisingly easy! Also made it easier to port into UE since I did not need to do any rendering magic there, just had to get camera in same location and it get close enough same cam settings.
Will do a separate post soonish on the grass trims and vertex coloring inspired by skyward sword!
The camera is pretty far away to force the illusion better. I used to the built in smoke gen to make some lazy cloud haze, probably a much better way to do that since camera stays in one place
I originally did some render layer magic, but decided just making the geo match would be easier to move to UE and it does not need to be cut super perfectly surprisingly? It just works!
Some of the skyward inspired textures I used, feel free to rip them but I should be uploading them for download when I do grass trim post!