v.montel
10-03-2005, 04:48 AM
Hello people!
As this challenge is kind of funny, I've been interested in seeing what's going on with this nice Christmas subject, even if in Septembre! And as french people seem to be active these days here, I've decided to join the party too. So here is the first sketch for the whole "concept/mood/staging of the image". It's been done last thursday, when I started the challenge :
http://home.tele2.fr/vmontel/images/SKETCH.jpg
As you can see, it's about a child that enters the christmas tree room by night... And such a surprise to see Santa trying to avoid the little mouse that has been disturbing him while he was working ; so you can see that everything is kind of messy around, with broken presents, debris of struggle and so on!
A few examples of sketches in searching for the mood I'kk have to set up on Santa's face, and trying to figure out who he is gonna look at : us (AKA the kid we se the shadow in foreground) or the mouse??
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First try was made on the tree to decide on what kind of rendering style I was to go for : I''l try to give a feeling of small scale scene, as if it had been done with clay puppets and small props. It meens that I'll try to do things like tree leaves bigger than nature, in order to show that it's a real tree branch but due to the small scale of the scene, it appears bigger than nature, got it??!!!
Here is the tree right now :
http://home.tele2.fr/vmontel/images/TREE.jpg
And finally, I started to work on the whole scene, trying to catch up the few days I should have worked on this project to be on schedule...
A first rough try, about lighting, material for the ground and setting up the scene (proportions, place for each important element...) :
http://home.tele2.fr/vmontel/images/ROOM.jpg
So here we are, I have done some more elements today but not rendered yet, so I'll try to keep updating monday if I find some time, but I think the deadline is really close now, so don't get angry if I can't update before final release ;)
As this challenge is kind of funny, I've been interested in seeing what's going on with this nice Christmas subject, even if in Septembre! And as french people seem to be active these days here, I've decided to join the party too. So here is the first sketch for the whole "concept/mood/staging of the image". It's been done last thursday, when I started the challenge :
http://home.tele2.fr/vmontel/images/SKETCH.jpg
As you can see, it's about a child that enters the christmas tree room by night... And such a surprise to see Santa trying to avoid the little mouse that has been disturbing him while he was working ; so you can see that everything is kind of messy around, with broken presents, debris of struggle and so on!
A few examples of sketches in searching for the mood I'kk have to set up on Santa's face, and trying to figure out who he is gonna look at : us (AKA the kid we se the shadow in foreground) or the mouse??
________________________
First try was made on the tree to decide on what kind of rendering style I was to go for : I''l try to give a feeling of small scale scene, as if it had been done with clay puppets and small props. It meens that I'll try to do things like tree leaves bigger than nature, in order to show that it's a real tree branch but due to the small scale of the scene, it appears bigger than nature, got it??!!!
Here is the tree right now :
http://home.tele2.fr/vmontel/images/TREE.jpg
And finally, I started to work on the whole scene, trying to catch up the few days I should have worked on this project to be on schedule...
A first rough try, about lighting, material for the ground and setting up the scene (proportions, place for each important element...) :
http://home.tele2.fr/vmontel/images/ROOM.jpg
So here we are, I have done some more elements today but not rendered yet, so I'll try to keep updating monday if I find some time, but I think the deadline is really close now, so don't get angry if I can't update before final release ;)