Tractor Bike

These tractor bikes are often used by farmers who need to drive through their land in the middle of the night to check upon their livestock. As opposed to regular tractors, these tractor bikes are often able to quickly traverse through the mud to reach the animals and potentially scare away wild feral animals.

This bike is heavily inspired by large tractors used for agriculture here in the Netherlands. When I grew up, I’d often see tractors on a daily basis and I recall being impressed by the massive tires so I really wanted to make something that had those huge tires.
For the art style, I closely looked at games such as World of Warcraft to come up with this handpainted texture style.

This originally started as an assignment for Ashleigh Warner’s CGMA course: Creating Stylized Game Assets over the course of the summer. Until I decided recently to touch it up a bit more, animate it and render it in Unreal Engine. The problem is that I couldn’t use Unreal Engine at all.
So through quite some trial & error and a lot of help from others I managed to my intended result you see above.
I specifically want to thank my coursemate Jordan Wills and other members of the Handpainter’s Guild Discord. They helped quite a lot in my learning process of Unreal Engine.