Welcome Back! // Crumbling Ruins Freeflow Level Design/Environment Art in Unreal Engine 5

[@Floatharr]

What a pleasant surprise! This channel taught me large chunks of what I know about 3D modeling, and I still (very) occasionally direct people here to go through some of the old videos. I've since done a bit of level design and picked up programming with the aim of developming my own tools, so I'm excited to see what kind of creative inspiration the future of this channel holds!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Wow, thanks! So glad to see you're still out here, Floatharr!

[@ChrisRadsby]

Welcome back Warren! Happy to see you making a comeback! :)

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Insert "don't call it a comeback" joke here ... ;) Thanks Chris!

[@SimonOBrien]

ha! hi Chris - hope you're doing well :D

[@mobingandomabadi8658]

Wowww look who's back, after 4~5 years! can't describe my happiness with words! I've learned a lot from you and when I saw your old videos and those gold tricks, realized that it was start of my journey as Envrio Artist, so went further on that path and little by little learned about tricks, workflows and shaders and eventually became a Technical Artist! Because of it I owe you Warren, happy you are back Sir ; )

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

I'm honored to have helped you out, man! Nice work!

[@HRosenberg]

What's hilarious is i been thinking about you a couple weeks ago as i keep striving to break into the gaming industry as a vfx modeling veteran for 12 years. And i spent like a full hour looking for you and here you are again!

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

Wow, your return to this channel is a real motivational boost. It's giving me all the nostalgia and good vibes from the past.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

That's nice to hear, thank you. :)

[@beemkhan]

You were my secret resource I use to watch back in my uni days. Especially for the 3d modelling and lightmapping :D. I graduated one of the best in my class, got a job at rockstar, changed careers as well now lol. If anyone reads this, Warren has great knowledge in the game dev world, every bit will be useful. I am looking to start something small as a passion project, couldnt be a more perfect time. Welcome back! and thank you for the great content you provided in the past!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thanks for sharing! I'll happily take credit for ALL of that stuff. Haha, but seriously that's AMAZING. Well done!

[@Sz4rmant]

I'm really happy to see you back. Two years ago I learned a lot from your videos and now I will have possibility to learn even more

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Great to hear! Hopefully I can get you some more useful content. :P

[@MrNOBOOT]

I'm happy to see you're back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Happy to BE back!

[@UnrealBucket]

"I wanna be the one who dictates what happens" - well, I couldn't agree more. It grows in me stronger everyday. Glad you're back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

It's a powerful concept and I think it's a function of age. As you get older, the less you want to be told what to do. Haha...

[@MrAhiiia]

Great to have you back Warren! Started to follow you when I was a 3D student, now I got to Senior Environment/Level art role with 6 years of experience LOL I really love your mindset! Whatever you make here on the channel I will be around listening and learning :)

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Fantastic, man, nice work! Fuck, I love these personal stories so much.

[@roughnesspub]

I'm so happy to see that you alive! That's not a joke, recently I tried to search your career and couldn't find any info. Your explanation of 3d in gamedev really helped me a lot back in the days so thank you and cant wait to see your next vlogs!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thank you! I noticed that my last video was at the start of 2020 so I could see how folks might actually question if I was still alive. Yikes...

[@PedroVencore]

Nice to see you again! when I was starting on my first small gigs, I watched your channel a lot and learned tons, it was one of those big influences on me when I was still learning the ropes of 3D, thank you Warren! ♥

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Cool, thanks! That's great! Hope you've been well, Pedro.

[@boonejarschke2810]

Good to have you back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thank you!

[@jirikrivanek9342]

hello Warren!..nice to have you back :)

[@BlagoiSpasov]

I'm glad you're back. I learned a lot from you in the past.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Nice, let's hope we can repeat that!

[@Pixelfondue]

Welcome Back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thank you!

[@GustavSkoglund]

Wellcome back, miss your videos :) Allways great stuff. Good luck with your new lifestyle, sounds great and hope you can make it work :D

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Haha, you and I both. But so far, I'm pumped!

[@Devenish]

Welcome back Warren. It sounds good, and I'm looking forward to the new direction being taken.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Bad ass, I love hearing that. I'm pretty excited...

[@rouvie1809]

Nice that u r back. I appreciate it when u share ur knowledge!

[@SQUIDTANK]

So great to see you back! I'd been wondering where you were. Looking forward to your new vids!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thank you! I hope you like them! We'll see. :)

[@emanuelecelli4451]

Hats off, sir! I'm glad to see, you are back!!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thanks a lot!

[@Stormy101]

Welcome back! Happy to see you are alive and kicking!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hey, thanks! Alive, kicking, talking, clicking ... all the things.

[@miroslav513]

Welcome back :) You taught me a lot back in the day!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Nice, I love hearing that!

[@CustomGamer]

Nice to see you Warren :) Glad you're doing good. I'm looking forward to seeing what pops out of your brain on here!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

You and me both! Hey Daz!

[@glenndonnelly511]

Hope you're well Warren! I'd pop back into the channel every other month to check on any new videos so it was really pleasant to see you again!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Awesome, thank you! Yes, doing well and amped up for the future...

[@Smoluck]

It’s really nice to see you back on sharing Warren. I understand and agree your feeling.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

More to come! :)

[@toxicsludge77]

SO good to have you back! Since you've been gone, I landed my first job in the games industry, worked for 3 years and then made redundant 😆 Looking forward to your new videos!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

But you know what, getting that first job and making a few connections is the hardest step. Landing your next job, if you want one, should be a LOT easier! Good luck!

[@darkinc1429]

Good to see you! :) I hope there are more videos to come.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

There are. :)

[@gidobergrush1157]

Welcome back, looking forward for more videos, specifically the quake map...

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Nice, thank you! I knew someone would appreciate the expanded topics. :)

[@gorbashgaming1470]

Nice to see you back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hey, thanks! Nice to BE back!

[@TheJohn0363]

amazing to see you back Wiz!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Let's hope. Haha ... thanks!

[@JoelPattie95]

Welcome back! I was just wondering if you had any updated videos. Your videos helped me learn to get into the industry, I now have almost 7 years as a professional artist so a massive thank you for everything!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

This is my favorite kind of comment to get, thank you! And congrats!

[@MouhsineAdnani]

Welcome back!! Glad to see you back Warren!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thanks man, good to be back! Feels right...

[@filipemiguel268]

very good suprise! Welcome Back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Surprise! :)

[@wjhamilton1984]

Welcome back! So glad to see you again.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thank you!

[@kevinbrunt]

Welcome back Warren!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thx!

[@PYMs3d]

a surprising return. thanks for speaking about career and work in the industry. take care.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

A little surprising but you know what? It feels good. It feels right. I'm excited!

[@NINEx7x]

Great to have you back! I'm looking forward to some fun videos.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Me too! :P

[@sasho3d]

I am one of the people who your content definitely helped get a career in 3D art! It's a pleasure to see you're back and excited to hear what comes next!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Grateful to have helped you in any way. I'm excited too!

[@Tarjei3D]

Happy to see you back! Looking forward to more great content:)

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hey, thanks! That's the plan!

[@TheNinetitle]

So much time, welcome back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Glad to be back!

[@dantaub7519]

Awesome video, awesome shirt. Welcome back, Warren.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

:) Hey Dan!

[@SimonOBrien]

Great to see you back with a fresh perspective. Loved your vids back when I was learning Modo (much more Blender these days). Looking forward to some interesting gamedev-oriented 3d work and philosophies :D

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Haha, yes! This will be interesting.

[@alvaromartin1351]

Hey man, it's great to watch your videos again. I'd love to hear a recap of the last few years, doesn't have to be technical or anything.

[@razvanab]

Welcome back, sir.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thank you!

[@OMEGAretrON]

Thx for coming back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

You bet!

[@mrgameart4733]

Time Flies... Glad you're back on my feed man!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Me too!

[@zexmorf]

Thanks for returning.. I always loved your videos, that teach me alot.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

You are so welcome!

[@strukovets]

🎉 приятно снова тебя видеть, дизайн очень интересная тема.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thanks for checking it out! Hope you find the channel interesting going forward...

I share the same thoughts Warren, you inspired a lot of 3D artists out there and it's great to see what you have been up too recently! Keep on it 🙌

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thanks a ton! I love hearing this kind of thing. Hopefully the future videos will be as useful as the older ones!

[@Wozner]

My God, Warren! So glad you're here again!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Me too! It's great to BE back! :)

[@tofu6433]

Great to see you have a channel. I have a lot of back watching to do. 😊

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hey Tofu! Welcome.

[@parinamais]

woooooooooooowww it's so nice to see you back!!!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Good to be back! :) Thank you!

[@oscarsanchezjimenez3d]

Very cool to see a new video on this channel, Warren! Looking forward to more content from you! ❤🎉

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hey Oscar! :)

[@vinay0arts]

Really great to see you back sir, I really like doing level design and architectural work but in chase of money I'm doing 3d product animations, I feel you sir and really good to see you back I also want to continue some of my own personal project I literally learnt a lot from you, looking forward to your new videos

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Best of luck! I think level design and 3D art have a lot of overlap so it's only natural to mix them.

[@neill6585]

Well dude, you just got a sub. Your new direction is 100% the content I'm interested in.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Very nice, thank you! :)

[@tommywright]

Yay! Ironically, I'm doing the exact same thing career-wise. I just wrapped up my last AAA contract and I'm also completely done with all that. I think it's just our age and generation that is driving it. I look forward to seeing your new videos!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Nice! Good luck with that! I'm excited about the future, I think this will be good...

[@kmmcal]

Awesome! Especially environment designs are so great 😃

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Glad you like them! :)

[@ChillieGaming]

A great idea would be to show some breakdown of several complex environment with different style and places Like showing which part were trimsheet , which part were modular and how you did some tricks for some land shaders tiling and all other stuff.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Great suggestion! I like that.

[@classicdevikin]

Loving this thought process

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thank you! It's been awhile in cooking in my brain ...

[@tmn278]

Great video. Its nice to see you back! 🙂 I know how you feel with regard to the desire to have more control over jobs and life.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

100% ... and as I said, it's something that seems to get stronger with age. That urge...

[@frankandiryous8545]

Thanks for returning , please bring back Town Crush, it was a very wonderful game 🔥🔥

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Oh dude, I loved Town Crush. It was my baby. If I ever figure out a way to bring it back, I absolutely will. :)

[@kloworks]

funny like one week ago I checked your youtube channel, and asked myself its been a while hope he is doing well. and yeah you are fine and I am happy to see you again, I learned a lot from your channels, Thank you :D

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Welcome back! You want long enough, the snake starts to eat its tail and time repeats. Or something...

[@jstubbles]

Heyyy, welcome back, Warren!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Awesome, hey Stubbles!

[@weazel725]

Ayyeee good to see you back man!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hey hey, thanks!

[@pistachiojud]

Welcome back Warren! Look at all those familiar faces in the comments. ^_^

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Right? This has been a really fun reunion type of thing that I wasn't fully expecting. I LOVE it.

[@HelderP1337]

Hey, welcome back bro, how's it going? Enjoyed listening to you, alot! Also, you're also into stoicism, pretty cool, do tell!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

I am! I'm not sure my interpretation of it will line up with what's expected but hopefully it'll be useful. All in good time. And hi Helder! Good to see you man ...

[@uberrockleybonner6253]

Ayyyo, great to see you again!!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hey hey! Rockley! Wow, long time...

[@IanValeta-ks9fg]

Glad to see you're back!!!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Glad to be back!

[@mauriciocs2]

This is definitely great news.

[@mahkhardy8588]

Learned a lot from you. Looking forward to it. Many thanks see you again soon.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

More to come!

[@FfejW]

Really amazing. Great to see you on here. It was really cool to see this process and it made me wonder how much of the final product is in your head when you start vs improvised as you lay things out and move things around?

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, in this case it was just sort of freeform. What looks good, what doesn't, what can I use the various pieces for. In a real project I would have more direction or at least a concept of what was expected. This was just ... fun.

[@DeeOdzta]

welcome back! work for yourself FTW!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

That's the plan! This feels right...

[@JeremyEstrellado]

Good to see you man!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Jeremy, hey man! Good to see you.

[@ironswall]

welcome back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thank you!

[@zdupi]

Welcome back! :)

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hey, thanks!

[@TubeCompie]

Welcome back !

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

[@esparafucio]

"The good son always returns home."

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Everything comes full circle eventually!

[@dannys_85]

Welcome back, I really enjoyed your videos and your teaching style. I understand that you mean with minimal video editing, and I think it help to attract new subscribers. However, for people serious about learning 3D stuff, it doesn't matter much. I also have a KZbin channel with a few hundred subscribers. I haven't uploaded any videos since around 2021, but I'm considering starting again with the basics of 3D math, like linear algebra, and then moving on to more complex Houdini tools. I work as technical environment and heavily use Houdini in the studio. Perhaps later we could do a podcast discussing 3D environment speed level design and talk about the industry and how to land a job. If you're interested, let me know.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Sure, that might be fun! And a tech artist focused channel sounds cool. That's an area I really haven't had a ton of exposure to. Houdini makes me cry.

[@impactcr]

good to se you indeed!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Thank you! This feels good...

[@DougFromTheBayou]

Glad you're back Warren! And looking into Godot 🥳

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hope you enjoy it! I really love Godot and I'm eager to tell people a little about it ...

[@vit9233]

Hes back ❤️

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

[@HendrikMans]

Love you Warren

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Finally, you admit it.

[@dhedhekuncoro]

Hi Warren, nice to see you back. Do you have any advise for some one who is also coming to retirement age but still have passion for video game art in general? Thanks

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Start a KZbin channel? :) Haha ... I mean, if you still love what you do then I think you have 2 options: (1) teach it, or (2) create with it. If you don't want to share what you know, you could always build up a side hustle creating asset packs for the various marketplaces.

[@dhedhekuncoro]

@@WarrenMarshallBiz really appreciate the reply Thank you

[@bovineox1111]

Welcome back. Would this be a method I can get away with on mobile? I'd be afraid of the overdraw and poly count killng me but it's super easy to build things like this.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

You mean using meshes to build up larger scenes? If so, I think so. I don't have a ton of mobile experience but devices are powerful enough these days that I would wager a similar workflow is viable. The other option is to maybe use larger components. Like, instead of individual bricks, create meshes that are complete walls or doorways for example. Fewer draw calls, but still using the principle of modular construction.

[@greyarea_games]

Hey Warren, I got hooked by the beard, stayed for the content ;) sub

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hahaha, amazing. Welcome!

[@archiep9162]

youtube really wanted me to see this video

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

It gets like that sometimes, I know. I hope it was worth it! :)

[@RDD87z]

are you also the warren marshall in the revision history from UnrealTournament99 native code?

[@arcanacom]

AMEN.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Haha, seriously...

[@ty_teynium]

Hey I remember you!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Haha, thanks! I remember me too...

[@ian800]

Huzzah!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hazzuh!

[@maxwellgiddens855]

Cool environment, but do you think it would be better to call it environment art or level art than to call it level design?

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Yeah, they are separate jobs these days aren't they? I come from the olden times when it was one job, haha. I guess it's a holdover in my brain.

[@maxwellgiddens855]

@@WarrenMarshallBiz For sure! I was just thinking in terms of folks who would be really into it finding the video.

[@Classic_DM]

Awesome video. I love the message. If you ever want to collab, let me know. I'm doing RPGs now.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Hey man! Long time. :)

[@turalmemmedov3648]

Oh wow. You cant imagine, your videos are fundamentals of my carrier as 3D modeller 7/8 years before. Now we are working on an indie game and I am level designer, technical artist at studio. You are one of the main persons who helped me build my carrier. And now you are back. This is nostalgia level 100000000 )))) This is a trailer of our game we are working on ))) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIHVpKt8bZd2mpY

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

Dude, that game looks GREAT! Really great visuals and very clean. Congrats!

[@Fellow_Traveller1985]

You're a year too late, my Modo expires in a few days and I can't afford a new license.

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

My admission is that I let mine expire just before the channel went on hold. I'm all Blender these days...

[@yonjuunininjin]

@@WarrenMarshallBiz Does that mean we get some high quality blender videos from WarrenMarshall? 😮

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

@@yonjuunininjin The quality might be debatable but I do intend to do some more Blender stuff. I love Blender!

[@HelloBard]

Welcome back!

[@WarrenMarshallBiz]

*waves*