Kacper Niepokólczycki and Michał Janiszewski, Lead Environment artists at CD Projekt Red, joined the Quixel team to discuss the environment creation for Cyberpunk 2077 and shared the details of working with Megascans library.
In the interview, Kacper and Michał discussed the art direction, references, and visual style of each district of Night City, how the team achieved the balance of storytelling and exploration in the game, revealed some details of the environment art team collaboration with the level design team.
Although the team has built its own texturing pipeline based on custom tools and integration with Substance Designer and Substance Painter, the team has relied on Megascans collections for a variety of details of each district.
