Forest Village (Unreal Engine 4)
Forest Village is an environmental showcase using handmade, stylized assets in Unreal Engine 4.
Custom environments are always a pleasure to make. It scratches the same itch as a shoebox diorama for me - placing detail objects like blades of grass is part of the fun. I could never leave that sort of thing to an algorithm, because I enjoy doing it by hand. Scripting the camera was also its own challenge; reminiscent of coding rail-shooter behavior after a while.
Unreal offers a pretty substantial lighting package right out of the box. I was most impressed by its texture blending features. Very nice for getting the most out of the transitions from things like stone-to-grass.