Arizona Desert

Arizona desert was inspired by The Searchers (1956). Working on this project, I wondered what if Ethan Edwards (act by John Wayne) hadn't been very clever (by not hiding, which is not the case in the film) and had been killed by the brigands in the bivouac scene. So, I created a reinterpretation of this scene from a different point of view to highlight the cacti.
In this project, I used Substance Designer for the creation of different textures like saguaro cacti, nopal cacti, thorns textures, and ground texture; 3dsmax for the modelizations of all the cacti assets; and Unreal Engine to make this scene and create the environment support with Megascan.
For all the cactus, I create two tileable textures, one for the base shape of the cactus and one for the thorns.