Eon (3D Scene) Entry: Nico Strobbe

[Nothingness]

Wishing everybody much fun during this Eon challenge !

[irananimator]

Hi .
Nice to see you here Nico. good luck.

Hamed katebi

[gpepper]

Thanks for your cool words on my entry !
Have fun Nico !

[soapy]

Hey Nothingness, looking forward to seeing your project progress. Good luck with the challenge!

[Nothingness]

thanx all, it's nice to see some familiar avatars from the last challenge ;-)

grepper, no problem!

[Rebeccak]

Best of luck to you Nico! I can't wait to see your progress. :)

[SantoAnderson]

Good luck , I hope your entry rocks.

[Nothingness]

hey thanks rebecca, i hope i can start soon, but i'm too busy reading the book. Luckily i'n at home for a few days.

Hey SantoAnderson, i hope it'll rock too :argh: :twisted:

[Zapan]

Hey Nico !

Droppin by to wish you the best for this new event , and especially a lot of fun !

cheers ,

-Zapan

[Nothingness]

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Ok, i think i'm sticking with the part where Patricia sees the 7th chamber.

To get the right kind of contrast in shape and dimention, i left the vehicle in the end of the tunnel, ready to descend the bridge. The plan is to make it visible that there is no sky, but it's an endless huge tunnel.

The light tunnel - the lightsource - wil have a high-tech, imposant and impossible look with a bright blueish tint and glow.

For the human part, i'll try the futuristic view on the 21st centuyr from back in the '80s. So i think i'll make it a little retro too.

that's it for the base, so i can get busy on the detail and some designs.

cheers

[Nothingness]

Hey Nico !

Droppin by to wish you the best for this new event , and especially a lot of fun !

cheers ,

-Zapan



hey Stéphane,

nice of you dropping in!

i'll try to have fun, but guess it'll mean lots of stress too :banghead:
last challenge i started 2 weeks after it started. So i hope i'll have more
space this thime.

[Jonesisme]

Nice drawing, I see this will be a tough comp

[soapy]

Great concept sketch. That gives you a really good jumping off point for sure.

[TheSoracle]

Already great :p I wish I could sketch. Mine will just be rough pencil and paper. Anyway, best of luck Nico/Nothingness.

[Nothingness]

@Jonesisme: I really doubt that, you know! But thinking kind of competitive could be just what you need to push your work just further. Just give it all ya got :thumbsup:

@soapy: thanks soapy,in a way i'm glad we have a starting point (the book) so it isn't too hard to find something to work on. It's just a matter of choosing correcty ( was it the rod or the blue pill ?? :argh: )

@ TheSoracle: I had to ajust the sketch a lot in photoshop to look at least decent. I just started on paper with a pencil, did a scan and started painting. Couse it just did'nt work doing it directly digital.

Cheers all

[Nothingness]

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Something i wanted to see on paper. Design needs some serious styling, and i'm doubting it was a good idea to use retro!

it's 4:30 am so i guess i'll hit the sack pronto

good night all

[soapy]

Kool truck. It reminds me of those big trucks they use to give glacier tours.

[Nothingness]

they're called a 'hagglund'!
i tried a combination between a hagglund, a truck and a more retro vehicle.
But now i'm working on an other one that looks at least less on a crossing between a hummer and a trailer.
I hope i'll post 'm soon

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1160153319_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1160153319_large.jpg)

It still isn't like i want it too be!
It should look less heavy, have some more detail and design. Also giving it a more electric look, as well as making it look less than an old amarican firetruck.
The roof needs a meetal rack as well.

But that's for later on.

[Crin]

I like the retro look alot man! Good work, keep it up!

[angel]

Nice concepts, you are making good progress.

[Rhs_CG]

Nico Strobbe is entered in the "Eon Challenge" update: View Challenge Page (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/eon/view_entries.php?challenger=11813)

Latest Update: Concept Sketch or 3D pre-visualization: different truck concept
http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1160153319_medium.jpg (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=3910620#post3910620)

Love that design! The VW bus front is great!

[SweD]

kind of mix between bus and train ! love the second version !
Keep up and good luck for this challenge :thumbsup:

[Nothingness]

hey all

@Crin: thanks, i'm checking how far or good i can get that retro thing!

@SNoWs: Thanks, it's still early for me to see my progress. I hope the truck concept doesn't take long.

@Rhs_CG: It does king of reminds me of the VW. But it wood be nice if i can get the finesse of the vw T1 in here!

@SweD: I know, i gotta get rid of the train influence :argh:


I've told myself not to rush into 3d before i know exactly what to do. So let's try that :bounce:
i got a next version drawn, so let's shade it now.

[pikin]

helo :) dropping by here to have a look at ur work

nice work so far :thumbsup:

[TheSoracle]

Looks great so far. Is it going to be passing through your environment in the sketch?

[Nothingness]

hey Pikin, thanks for droppin' in!



Looks great so far. Is it going to be passing through your environment in the sketch?


The vehicle will be in the front part, as well in the distance at the kamp in the 7th chamber to bring a sence of depth.
I'm going to try and keep the vehicle and the characters as dark as possible while they are standing at the end of the tunnel.

Looking at it practicle, there should be enough light at the end, but let's forget it in favour of the composition :argh:

cheers

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1160182337_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1160182337_large.jpg)

This is a more down-to-earth vehicle which looks more like a truck instead of a train or hummer.

The concept of the truck: There are 3 parts to the truck: a cabin, the chassis and a backpiece that could change. This would make it easy to create a 3 versions without completely redoing everything.

The details will emerge once i start on modeling it, or when i create some blueprints.

[Nothingness]

i guess the truck will look a bit more inbetween the second and last concept.
and give sertain thing more futuristic design.

The back part could be a container of lots of equipement, or a second cabin to transport more passengers or simple an open container to become aa pickup.

To loose the egual color, i'll trow in dirt and codenames used to identify trucks.

ideas ideas ideas ......


once you finish something on paper, you would want to redo it :argh:

[mosconariz]

If you ask me... I really like this retro-futuristic concept!

but you're the chief in this thread m8!

[Zapan]

Hey Nico !

Ouh yeah those designs are great ... I really like the syle ... keep them coming mate

cheers ,

-Zapan

[Nothingness]

If you ask me... I really like this retro-futuristic concept!

but you're the chief in this thread m8!


thanks pall, but are you refering to the second one?



Hey zapan, it's still nog how i want it, but we're getting there !


cheers

[TheSoracle]

2nd train looks much better. I like the shading on it.

[Nothingness]

2nd train looks much better. I like the shading on it.

shading was a little better yes,

but i'm trying to get rid of the train-influence :argh: :banghead:
anyway, new variation on the cabin part comming.

cheers

[Nothingness]

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This one had more design that i had in mind. It will look different with the other parts attached. But it'll give me a beter help when starting the modeling.
It has more influence from the VW t1 and looks lighter and more elegant than the previous ones.
also more futuristic in a retro way.

[johnnymaster]

i like your retro future design, it's more special and rougher than the typical scifi look. I can't wait to see the 3D model. Good luck!

[Nothingness]

Thinking about it makes me feel like it's a nice decision!
In the book, the past comes eye in eye with it's future. So
it's kind of incorrect to make everything complete futuristic
and sci-fi.
I just hope it will be clear in the image.

and thanks for dropping in!

[johnnymaster]

yeah i think it's a fine decision to led some retro ideas flow in. I like the futur design in the 80/90ies much more than what is releasing now, like serenity and some cheap looking series like andromeda. The looks of Blade Runner, Alien and Terminator are hard to catch.

[Nothingness]

i think the interesting about those styles is that there are recognizable between all others. They stand out. While all others look like one another trying to get an own identity.

It's like all new concept car designs. You can hardly tell which one is what brand. Suddenly chrysler starts to look like cadilac while cadilacs concept start looking like lamborgini.

I also saw that ducati is returning to a retro design with there new models. It really makes it stand out a little. While othere become inrecognizable.


guess thats why i love my mac :bounce: :twisted:

[mosconariz]

I hate macs! :scream: But i love your designs! all of them!

This last VW combi-like green and blue train is awesome, nice job :thumbsup:

[Nothingness]

thanks Mosconaris, the color is just to show the 2 colored design. Defenetly not final.

not to continue a mac-pc debate, but guess what's the cheapest and fastest window pc available right now?

yep, mac pro!

but let's forget about that, everyone has it's reasons for the choises in his/her life. And they should be respected no mather what :thumbsup:

[SantoAnderson]

PCs? Macs? Can't we all just get along? Hey, I love the VW unibus. I guess segways will catch on. :bounce:

[Nothingness]

PCs? Macs? Can't we all just get along? Hey, I love the VW unibus. I guess segways will catch on. :bounce:

sure man, i'm overstressed, it's 3:12 am, there are elections tomorrow and i'm designing the framework and electronics - including bump-absorbers and wheel mounting stuff.
besides i hate arguing.

Now back to the 'overkill' framework :argh:

[gpepper]

Nice work on the blue print Nico !
I really like the design of it !
Some cool old style !

[Nothingness]

thanks Gilles,

by the way, are you going to do all 3 challenges?!
Damn, that's like 1 month and 5 days per challenge.

well, good luck with all of 'm :thumbsup:

[thelostcucumber]

Wow, you really do this the right way and break everything down before you even start modeling. Great stuff, man, I'll be watching your thread =)

-Espen

[Nothingness]

Wow, you really do this the right way and break everything down before you even start modeling. Great stuff, man, I'll be watching your thread =)

-Espen

Thanks man,
this your first challenge?

it's my second, and i'm trying to do right what i did wrong the first challenge.
it's so great what you can learn in here by participating :applause:

[Crin]

I agree i've furthered my skills verytime I've been in a challenge (not that i've ever finished one)

I love the latest version of the truck, it's so VW camper van, I'd buy one if those existed, that's the best compliment I can give!

[Nothingness]

I agree i've furthered my skills verytime I've been in a challenge (not that i've ever finished one)

I love the latest version of the truck, it's so VW camper van, I'd buy one if those existed, that's the best compliment I can give!


Thanks man, much appreciated :bowdown:

i'm doing the modeling right now, so don't know when i'll post another image.

cheers

[Crin]

I look forward to it! I'm planning on using a mix of retro and futuristic styling, I went for fully retro in the last challenge so I'm gonna use it again. Stop by and let me know of any retro inspiring thoughts you might have! ;)

[Nothingness]

I look forward to it! I'm planning on using a mix of retro and futuristic styling, I went for fully retro in the last challenge so I'm gonna use it again. Stop by and let me know of any retro inspiring thoughts you might have! ;)


will do :thumbsup:

[TheSoracle]

I see you changed your train into a more car like vehicle. Looks good so far, anxious to see models.

[gpepper]

thanks Gilles,

by the way, are you going to do all 3 challenges?!
Damn, that's like 1 month and 5 days per challenge.

well, good luck with all of 'm :thumbsup:

Ahahah, no, not really, just one of them should be chosen...

[Nothingness]

Ahahah, no, not really, just one of them should be chosen...

would be a nice challenges challenge! Do all 3 challenges withing the time of only one challenge :twisted:

i'm hitting the sack. There something called work, but keep forgetting what it really is.

goodnight all

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1160406227_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1160406227_large.jpg)

I wasn't going to post anything untill i felt it was worth showing. But since it will be a few days untill i'll be able to do a lot of work, i'll show you what i did yesterday.
The comming days i'll do some design concepts on the interior of the vehicle and on the framework.

what you now is smoothed on a level of 2 and contains 40000 polys. The low-poly version should be quad only.

comments on the front: the flat spherical part should be more spherical and the connection at the window should shange a lot and become more smooth.

[SweD]

your modeling is clean, keep up :thumbsup:

[ChewyPixels]

Hey Nico, you seem to be making excellent progress. :thumbsup:

The scene you've chosen is the first one that I actually thought about recreating for this challenge. I have others in mind as well, but I won't be making a final decision until I finish reading the book (almost done :bounce:). If I decide to go with this one, I will be aiming for more of a modern look to the truck. I would also model Patricia standing on top of the truck, searching in the distance for the end of the chamber. I might even add some of the other characters out of the vehicle looking up at her as described in the book.

Anyway, I look forward to what you come up with next. Should be a good one. :)

[TheSoracle]

Looks great so far. WAnna see some shading :p By the way, what program are you using?

[johnnymaster]

clean modeling! A bit too clean, i hope to see some nice details soon;) keep on doing!

[celiksert]

:thumbsup: looks original...

[Nothingness]

@SweD: thanks, it's really hard go make a certain shape while keeping it clean while smoothed. But i'm learning so much now, just doing this.

@Jedi-Juice: thanks for the comments. As you would have seen in the first concept-skech, i placed patricia on top of the truck too. And the other character would be standing around. Everybody makes it's own decision on the style - and good as well cause otherwise everything would look the same :twisted:

@TheSoracle: Thanks a lot, by the way i'm using maya too!

@johnnymaster: don't worry, i got that covered :thubsup: you gotta take good care of the ground before you build on it, right ?!

@celiksert, nice that you think it's original. I hope i can push this really far.

thanks again all!

[johnnymaster]

dont't misunderstand me, i don't worry:)

[Crin]

you gotta take good care of the ground before you build on it, right ?!

Ha ha awesome quote! :D

Van is looking sweet mate, looking forward to another update on this...

My book has arrived so I'm gonna be wanting that retro advice pretty soon man ;)

[Nothingness]

johnnymaster, i'm not saying you are worrying ;)
But if you feel somthing's wrong about it, just spit it out. I appreciate such things.
(as long is has a good reason ;) )

Crin, much fun on the reading. An i'll be there to give a 'retro'spect on your design. Just make sure you got all concept, story and kind of composition right before you go on designing.
If you want a room - for example - draw or construct it with only the essentials of what defines a room. Then later on you can design it into more specifical and artistic functions.

cheers

[Continuumx]

Your concept sketch for chamber 7 is a well done interpretation. I am looking forward to watching this one develop. :thumbsup:

[soapy]

Hey nice work on the truck design and modeling. It is coming slong very nicely. Good work.

[Zapan]

Heya Nico !

Polys yet ... yay !!

Looking great already , can't wait to see it completed !

Keep up the great work mate ,

cheers ,

-Zapan

[TheSoracle]

Woot! maya all the way. On your amazingly good system. *shakes fist* curse you....

[Nothingness]

@Continuumx: thanks, i am thinking to pump the concept with some more here and there to keep it interesting though. We'll see about that on the way.

@soapy: thanks for the comments. I'll hope the next update will be a large leap. The truck will have much detail since it's on the front. But i think there'll be more detail than needed. Because you will be able to see inside the truck i need to do the interior as well. I'm designing that right now.

@Zapan: hey Stéphane, i know, ... polys ..., yay! ahahah. I wasn't going to start modeling untin i had everything figured out. But i just couldn't resist it. And besides, i'm already sertain about the body - except for some changes still to be made.
I wnat to do everything right from the start, so i hope i'm doing ok. I'm modeling the truck in a rather low-poly way, with only quads, so i can smooth it according the detail i need. But modeling a non-organic shape that way needs much brainjuice. :argh:
but it's good practice.

@TheSoracle: yeeahh, maya all the way !! :bounce:
i have to admit, my 4 cpu's have only use when rendering. It's a blessing for preview when doing a testrender, but having less power is a motivation to push the effectiveness of the rendering and quality you get. So in a way, you don't need all this firepower to make amazing things. Hell, i have the firepower but still can't shoot - if you catch my drift! :twisted:
anyway, if you're in the market to buy a comp, check out the mac pro. Even if it's just for windows. You'll have the chance as well do try out osX.
I'm awaiting 2 new HDD's and hope i'll have little trouble with installing a 64bit's version of Gentoo linux on it. that way i hop to gain a speedbump using a 64bit's version of maya for linux. They don't have one for osX :banghead:

just to give an example: the last render was done with 3 area-lights rendered with mental-ray only raytraced. No final-gather of global-illumination. It took a crazy 50 minutes to render. And that hurts. You can do the same with maybe a 5 to 10 minutes render.

[TheSoracle]

I was looking at a macs, but the maya version i recently purchased is for windows. So unless i win the lottery sometime soon, i dont see it happening. (By the way,Im still in high school). :p

[johnnymaster]

man, 50min for the last render on a such monster system like your's?? That's crazy...i also use mental ray (XSI), but it renders such things in few minutes on an old amd64 3000,3gb. Is this a general problem of Maya for OSX or how i have to understand that?

[Nothingness]

man, 50min for the last render on a such monster system like your's?? That's crazy...i also use mental ray (XSI), but it renders such things in few minutes on an old amd64 3000,3gb. Is this a general problem of Maya for OSX or how i have to understand that?



it's just a problem of me doing the lighting the wrong way ;-)

[Nothingness]

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I'm getting slow on progress due to some trouble with my hardware here.
But here is how far i'm at right now.

i hope i can speed things up soon and also start on the characters.

cheers

[3Dspline]

wow, thats a beautiful model.

[johnnymaster]

Hey Nico,

very nice model with some beautiful shapes! Way to go!

I also plan to model this vehicle, of course in a complete different look. It's super interesting to see the different imaginations about the objects and characters.

I can't wait to see how your characters will look like. At this moment i'm working on the characters hair, this part really sucks hehee.

keep up the good work dude!

[SweD]

héhé ! great great modeling, very clean. This vehicle will be a fantastic model for sure! keep it up Nico :thumbsup:
Happy to see your hardware problems are resolve

[MacAndre]

yeah, i like the vw-bully too. nice start... :thumbsup:

[Nothingness]

3Dspline: thank you very much. Nice you like it.

Johnnymaster: Thanks man, it's not all easy to make the shapes look smooth when rendered. I can't wait to start the models cause it will take up lots of time.
I can't wait to see your hairtest. Did you solve the eye-problem yet?
I'll be curious how you'll do the vehicle man! It's nog only the design that can make it look so different, but also texturing and rendering and lighting. It will be very differnt indeed.

bonjour Cyril,

Mes problèmes sont pas finis. Et c'est pas mon disque dure qui est cassé! C'est la pompe pour le refroidisseur du processeur. Et j'ai perdu beaucoup du temps avec cherchez la problème.

et merci avec les compliments.

MacAndre: Thanks, i was wishing i could have finished it this weekend. A really big bugger there i'll say :banghead:

[johnnymaster]

yeah, i managed the eye-thing. I'm looking forward for your hair work, do you work with maya unlimited? The hair tool their looks powerful. The hair modul in xsi is also very nice, in fact, it's "shave and a haircut" under another name. But i have to put a lot of handcraft into hairsstyle/look, the style tools aren't very well designed i think, i hope for you with maya it's easier.

[Nothingness]

hey Linh,

i'm not sure on how to do the hair. I havent used the hair thing in maya, and i don't know if there will be time to understand it completely. If time is short i'll be using patches for the hair. Maybe i can get it right.
but those are trouble for later. I wanted to hava a moment to try the maya hairif there was time.

[TheSoracle]

I find the model beautiful as well. Looks extremely smooth and shiny which is nice. It is funny, because i put off reading so much, i just got to the part where they ride the train :p

Anyway, very detailed and interesting model. Very sleek and sexy :p :scream:

[daWinky]

Hey Nico!

Some nice concept sketches for your vehicle and a great start with the modeling:thumbsup: !

Sorry to hear about your hardware problems and I hope you can solve them soon,

eagerly waiting to see more:bounce: ! I'm already curious to discover your characters!

Cheers,

-sabrina

[Nothingness]

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done the modeling while at work yesterday, but .... Shhhhhhttttt ..... don't tell!!

posting a wire as well of the body of the truck.

[ChewyPixels]

Hey Nico...nice tires. What modeling technique did you use? Displacement map? I'm also working on the tires and decided to go with modeling using good 'ol poly modeling techniques. Very time-consuming, but I'm almost there. Just need to do the wheel assembly. My tread doesn't look as nice as yours, but it will do the job. :)

Looking forward to next update.

[johnnymaster]

Hey Nico,

very nice tires! I'm not sure too but I think its good old poly and not displacement right? I'm also going to use poly modeling for the tires.

Good work dude, so i can just say: hip hip horaaaay!:thumbsup:


btw: i think 4 - 8 seconds are too short to show such small details, i hope we may post longer videos, what do you think?

[Nothingness]

hey all,
good to be back!

No displacement for now. If i would be using the pixar renderman, i would opt for the displacement because it is extremely fast. While doing renders in mental ray, i think this is still the safest way. Also has a lot less polys at rendertime. Only downdraft is that you have lots of polys in your viewport. But with my graphics card i can't complain.
The tire itsels is about a 23,000 polys.

hey jedi-juice: thanks for the cheers. The tires are done rather fast. All you need to do is make a part of the motive of the tire, then if the width is correct, make a circle with the diametre of the outer part of the tire and calculate the length. Than with that lenght you can duplitate your piece of tire to the lenght you need and afterwards bend it to a circle and weld it. Then some tweeks here and there and voila.

Hope it helps.


Hey linh, thanks and indeed, it's no displacement. I really hope i can get this truck to move along really fast so i can get some time for the charactes. I think there will be lots of time spend into that part.

And 8 seconds isn't all that long. But, with a scene that heavy i don't think i would want to render any longer. Anyway, the idea is to show that your work is indeed 3d. Propably to show you didn't mess around with photoshop too much. So it's not ment to show all details. Defenetly not at that video-size.
I'm going to do a very slow move from left to right with a little more of a closing to the truck. But that's for over a few months :twisted:

cheers all and much fun

[soapy]

Nice wheels they came out really nicely! A little dusty texture and they will be perfect! The truck is of course looking sweet. Cheers.

[Nothingness]

@soapy: thanks man, those textures will definetly make a huge difference in feeling and style. Can't wait to start on those!


http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1161293473_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1161293473_large.jpg)

Just some eye-candy to show y'all it's comming nicely. At this rate i could have some confidence that maybe it'll be finished and textured by the end of the weekend.

There is still lots to be done so more detail will be added during the night. When it's going to be textured i think it will be looking much more realistic.
And i think i'll change the doors of the back cabin too. They are too smakk now and look kind of funny.

Any crit is WELCOME because the time is now

good night all !

[ChewyPixels]

Woohoo!! The funk-mobile! I like it. :)

[Nothingness]

Woohoo!! The funk-mobile! I like it. :)


yeah, all it needs right now is some spoilers, a flaming paint job and lots of neon :twisted: :cool: :scream:

[DSedov]

Really nice car! Dont you think, that the front is havier then the back and should have 4 wheel as aposed to the back part which should have only two? Just a suggestion, but the front part should definately be a four wheeler :deal:

[VonMarsch]

Damn, your truck concept rocks! It's really intresting to see what kind of concepts people draw from the same material.

[gringer]

Hey!

The design of that vehicle is cool! It reminds me of a cross between a 1950s American car and the mars rover! Can't wait to see the textures on it!

Cheers :D

[Nothingness]

Really nice car! Dont you think, that the front is havier then the back and should have 4 wheel as aposed to the back part which should have only two? Just a suggestion, but the front part should definately be a four wheeler :deal:

Thanks DSedov, i've though about the wheel balance before and i almost designed the vehicle with 4 rotating wheels at the front. I know the back part looks small, but i'm afraid to make it any bigger. Otherwise the truck will get too long.
i really appreciate this king of crit so i can think about sertain things that might be strange. But i'm still uncertain if i should change it so we'll see about that.

cheers

Damn, your truck concept rocks! It's really intresting to see what kind of concepts people draw from the same material.

Thank you Niten, i'm interested in the different appreaoches too! It's always hard to decide which style to use, so i hope i'm stuck with a good choice.

Hey!

The design of that vehicle is cool! It reminds me of a cross between a 1950s American car and the mars rover! Can't wait to see the textures on it!

Cheers :D

Hey gringer, thanks for the comments. It sure does look like that combination. I look forward to texturing in myself. Just hope the uv-mapping won't be a big pain in the 'behind'

bye all

[taavi]

This vehicle reminds me VW retro minivan :)
Excellent modelling, keep it up!

[angel]

wow you have made some good progress!, To tell you the truth I'm not thrilled with the circular head lights, looks a bit too retro. I think the rims could also be improved. Maybe look at 4x4 concept cars and maybe you can incorporate some ideas.

[Nothingness]

This vehicle reminds me VW retro minivan :)
Excellent modelling, keep it up!

Thans taavi, aren't those vw t1 vans the best? Wish i could get me one.


wow you have made some good progress!, To tell you the truth I'm not thrilled with the circular head lights, looks a bit too retro. I think the rims could also be improved. Maybe look at 4x4 concept cars and maybe you can incorporate some ideas.

Hey SNoWs, thanks for dropping in. I really appreciate your input! I'm thinking though, the lights are - for me - a part of the look i searched (besides, in the image you won't see them :banghead: ). And retro is the name of the game. In a way the van can't be judged when still nog textured because the textures give the second dimention to the style and feeling. The lighting will be the third! The rims look clean and shiny, but won't be like that when finished because it's still a tactical vehicle, and nog a classy design one. And the whole reason for the retro style is to avoid the integration of concept looking design.

In a way there will be two major objects in the still: the vehicle and the glowing tube. I'll try and make a huge difference in the design to point out that these are originated from two worlds. And for the tube i'll need some alien inspirated design to make it impressive.

Hope this little insight gives enough focus on the direction i'm trying to take.


So good night all and thanks for comming!

[johnnymaster]

Very nice job Nico! Now, when all parts come together, it looks a bit strange and very rough, i like such designs works. Now i'm looking forward for the textures.

As you are hot on the character job, i can't wait to begin with the vehicle and the environment, i give me 2 weeks to finished the character, thats enough.

Good luck and see you later mate!

[tkier]

Nice job on the car. It turned out great. Although I think I like the fenders in the original concept sketch. These fenders seem a little light for this design. Other than that its great!

[Nothingness]

@ Linh: thanks man, i agree it looks strange, but at this point it's getting a little more in balance. It's not as clean and design as i designed it, but i dont mind. Looking at it right now makes me feel like it isn't designed in this time. Looks older yet the design is too daring to be 1980s. So i hope it ends up like i wan't!

ps. i didn't sleep long because now i should be tiered enough to sleep this night! But the downside is that it takes a few days to be feeling good. And it sure isn't healthy

@ tkier: thanks for the comments. Although i'm not sure on the fender part. As i understand the meaning of 'fender' , there aren't any fenders in the render yet. Or you are referencing to something else?

anyway, about over an hour or two i hope to have the final model and be ready to do uv mapping and texturing for tomorrow. So i guess that comments on the final model will be much more valued than on the wip.
But better prevent than redo for sure.

good night all

[VietEmotion]

very nice work man, i like the unique design of the car, good luck.

[TheSoracle]

I'd have to say it looks much better. It is so sleek and awesome. The model is so detailed....

Great work so far Nico :D

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1161531778_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1161531778_large.jpg)

Here are some screenshots to shot a little aboutthe final model. It's nog completely finished, but there are just some details. Once i'm sure everything should be good enough, i can start on the textureing.

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1161531915_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1161531915_large.jpg)

here is better view on the model. There are some details i need to add still, but now i believe i can do some uv-mapping and texturing.
If there are some crits, now is the time.

cheers

[Nothingness]

thanks VietEmotion, nice that you like the design.

hey steven, seems like it got even more detailed in this last render :twisted:

what still needs to be done, is adding rubbers at the spot where the port-bagage attaches to the carroserie and a step at a hight thats in the middle of the tire to get in the truck easily. If you understand this :argh:

cheers all

[johnnymaster]

wow Nico! Now it looks right to me! The proportion is well balanced due the new details. The strangness faded away and now it looks very compact and robust, i like it a lot!

[ChewyPixels]

Wow! Good job Nico! :thumbsup: Wish I had something like that to go camping with. :D

A few crits. Right now the way that you have the ladder makes it look like it would be extremely awkward and dangerous (!) to traverse. Perhaps a couple of hand rails would do the job. :shrug: Also, I really like the detail you have with the boxes on top. However, this will leave you limited in where you decide to have Patricia stand.

Good job nonetheless. I really look forward to seeing this textured.

[Nothingness]

hey jinh, i'm happy too that it gotton balanced well in the end. But that's the problem with wip's when you crit on images or models that aren't finished yet. No just a few details and i can get to uv mapping. Will be my major occupation this night.

Hey Jedi, i think you'll be noticed everywhere when driving this one :thumbsup:
and thanks for the crits. I think i'll add some rails to the ladder so it also looks a little more interesting. And for the particia part, i was planning to put her completely on the front. But we'll see about that when we go into compositioning the scene.


cheers and thanks all

[Golpe]

This vehicle is great!I´d like to drive it, even I have no driving licence:scream: Good luck to you!:thumbsup:

[daWinky]

Hey Nico!

Wow, just stunning progress here with your vehicel:eek: ! And what's to say more...just great and original design, solid modeling...nothing to crit:thumbsup: !

Can't wait to see this baby textured, waiting eagerly now for an update:bounce: !

Nice day for you!

-sabrina

[hobo]

nice work, well done. Love the detail and the 'ol V Dub look, great. :bounce:

[oceanbluesky]

Hey Nico! Really like the idea of a retro car rather than a standard uptight white-padded NASA vehicle. Very humanizing and cool. Look forward to seeing what else you add to such a novel approach. Cheers!

[CgIcecube]

Awesome concept design for vehichle!..really like your modeling skills:thumbsup:

Keep up the good work:)

[ManAndDog]

this is really awesome!

I haven't even started yet and you already gave birth to something this beautiful.

Damn Dude! Keep up the good work.

[Nothingness]

@ GonzaloGolpe: thanks, but i don't think you'll need a drivers lisence in the rock to drive this one :twisted:

@ daWinky: Hey Sabrina, thanks a lot. I'm still busy on the uv-mapping. There is so much to be uv-mapped :banghead: And i'm affraid tonight i will have a lot of time to continue. By tomorrow - if all goes well - i'll be back-uping my system to take it in for repair :argh:
hope i'll have it back soon. And i can't do these kind of big things on my laptop. So i'll be able to do some concept on the chamber itself.

@ hobo: hay man, glad you like it. Seems i succeeded in my design-goal.

@ OceanBlueSky: Hey Eric, so nice to see you again (read you again). I tried my best on the concept part to bring something different this time. And in contrast to the pervious challenge, i'll stick much closer to the guidlines of the challenge. Cheers man!

@ CGiceCube: Thanks, i'll try and do that. I'm woried i'll mess it all up when i'll start the characters. I've seen some nice modeling on your anatomy thread, so i hope i could learn a lot from you :applause:

@ ManAndDog: thanks you a lot. I was fortunate enough to see the start of the challenge really early. The day itself i started my concepts. At the pervious challenge i started about 2 weeks later and it really makes a big difference. But this time we have about 2 weeks extra, so all is not lost :thumbsup:

[steven-pendrous]

This is a great model!!!

Correct me if I'm wrong but its got quite a 'retro' feel to it at the moment, could be to do with the colour and chrome details? Can't wait to see this textured and what you come up with next!!! Keep up the good work.

Steve

[m1j]

I like the vehicle a lot. It has a real nice 1950 retro look.

[krrrk]

hey dude

looks pretty cool
has a nice 50's feel to it
great to see how everybody is translating this book into different styles
keep it up

[Nothingness]

Hey Steven, thanks a lot. I'm not sure what you mean but retro is the style i chose to use. The chrome and lighting setup used here was just to show the modeling in a more interesting way :buttrock: I'm sure things are going to change a lot with textures. Especially when the lights come lookin' like lights!
cheers!

Hey mike, i'm having a really hard time with telling what year the influence is from. But i consider it a positive this cause i'm making it a totally new one.

Hellow krrrk! Nice to see another inhabitant from Ghent! I think the real reason for the many different translations is the international charactaristics of the challenge. You got peaple from all over the world giving it a shot and everyone had it's one bagage of ideas and images.
cheers


i'm gonna have some sleep now - pitty we need that - and i still haven't done the uv-mapping completely! I still need to do the chassis and all that's at the height of the wheels. But that shouldn't be too long.

Good night all

[Crin]

Holy socks Batman!

Your storming along! That vehicle looks totally awesome now! Good work! I feel bad for not updating for so long now.

[SweD]

Hey Nico, some days after, your truck look very very good and modeling is really clean ! you've do a great job on it ! can't wait to see the next step !
awesome friend :thumbsup: !

[Nothingness]

hey michael, hey Cyril, how are you ll doing?

thanks for the crits. I'm really glad the modeling part of the truck is over. Now i'll have this night to do some texturing. Don't know how long i'll need to do it all. Hope it goes well.

cheers

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1161713103_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1161713103_large.jpg)

i just finished the uv-mapping. A lot of parts need to be layed-out to be able to use one texture on multiple object, but that's for during texture time.

[johnnymaster]

hey Nico, looks nice already, curious to see the textures and the final shaders! I'm also on texturing this night, and sculpting some small details and the ear.

to your question about the body:

yeah, the first option is also my way, in my opinion the second option is not logical, i'm always thinking on animation, with sculped cloth without a body underneath it's difficult (and weird) to make natural looking animation (okay, in this case we don't need animation, but we have a option for later). In addition is really hard to model good looking cloth wrinkles etc, so you are on the good way!

Good luck on texturing!

[ChewyPixels]

Man at this rate, you're just bound to finish on time. Go, go, go...no excuses! :wip:

[Nothingness]

Lihn, thanks alot, same for you


was just having a break, so let's get to it and rock those textures!


Master Jedi :applause:

i think things will defenetly slow down a lot once i start on the character. Unless i get extremely lucky!

cheers

[daWinky]

Hey Nico,

congrats, it seems you've finished one of the most annoying parts for this model, unwrapping all these details must have been a pain:scream: ...clean work and really fast:thumbsup: .

Waiting for the continuation now!

Have a nice day!

-sabrina

[pretty9s]

nice work! How long did it take u on UV??

[Nothingness]

Hey Sabrina, Chris,

it rather wasn't a big pain to do the unwrapping :surprised:
now i'm doing the textures, it seems i rather do the unwrapping than the texturing. But At this moment i'm rethinking my way of texturing and such, so it might change a little.

about the time, i think i did it in about 2 days. There were so many object i don't even dare to count 'em.

and sabrine, if you gotten a little understanding on how sertain tools work, and what's the best way to approach, it's not that hard. Some things can take up a lot of time, but far from that it's no sweat.
if you got a problem with some unwrapping someday, you can always ask if i know a good way!


cheers

i have to work for a few days now, so i won't be doing anything until the weekend. Hope to see ya'll then.

[chaitanyak]

um first of all, its a great model and good work with the UVs ( you won't believe how difficult UVs are for me).

i don't want to "nit-pick" but i just finished the book today, so its pretty fresh in my head. i think the trucks have the ability to rotate 360 degrees , so maybe you should give more clearence for the wheels ... :hmm:

[pretty9s]

really a good guy! cool

[Nothingness]

um first of all, its a great model and good work with the UVs ( you won't believe how difficult UVs are for me).

i don't want to "nit-pick" but i just finished the book today, so its pretty fresh in my head. i think the trucks have the ability to rotate 360 degrees , so maybe you should give more clearence for the wheels ... :hmm:



thanks a lot. Didn't read it to the end, and sure didn't read that part about the truck. But on the other hand it doesn't bother me cause it's extremely hard to make a 6wheeled vehicle that can rotate 360degrees. And thinking about disigning one :banghead:

but it's an important detail never the less

:thumbsup:

[chaitanyak]

come to think of it the trucks mentioned in the book are probably american... there are other guys(russians, chinese etc on the Stone as well) so they may have brought their own vehicles :thumbsup: i guess some level of artistic freedom isn't going to hurt anyone :lightbulb

[Nothingness]

come to think of it the trucks mentioned in the book are probably american... there are other guys(russians, chinese etc on the Stone as well) so they may have brought their own vehicles :thumbsup: i guess some level of artistic freedom isn't going to hurt anyone :lightbulb


yeah,

but if i'm not mistaken, it was the american side that chose the individuals from all around the world. Although it was obvious that non-americans had much more difficulties achieving full acces in the rock!
So i doubt that there were non-american vehicles transported.

but would it matter? :twisted:


and artistic freedom should definetly be present.

cheers

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162050886_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162050886_large.jpg)

Just a part done, so it's now up the the next. I'm working with another HDD now and working with textures just got a little better!

i hope i'll have more soon!

cheers

[hobo]

Nice detail as usual. :)

[ChewyPixels]

Good job Nico. :thumbsup: I also noticed the rails on the ladder. :D

[Nothingness]

thanks hobo, let's hope i can continue the detail :bounce:


hey Jedi, yes, that ladder had rails now. Great advice you gave me there! :bounce: : applause:

[johnnymaster]

hey looks nice already, maybe some ideas...except the metal the shaders look a bit too "flat", maybe you could increase the specular value or adding a little, little bit soft reflections to it, especially things like the sticky tapes would looks better, but also the cartons. If you render with HDRI+final gathering in addition to the direct lights, final gathering is pretty fast, so maybe its a option for you.

Good luck!:thumbsup:

[chaitanyak]

cool rails n boxes. great attention to detail :thumbsup:

[SweD]

it's coming very nice. As said Linh, a great attention to your metal shader could be more interesting for your final rendering.
Keep up your really good work mate ! :thumbsup:

[daWinky]

Hey Nico,

that looks amazing, very realistic, nice level of detail and again quick work:thumbsup: , if you keep this we'll see soon your vehicel complete...
and sabrine, if you gotten a little understanding on how sertain tools work, and what's the best way to approach, it's not that hard. Some things can take up a lot of time, but far from that it's no sweat.
if you got a problem with some unwrapping someday, you can always ask if i know a good way!
That's of course a great offer, but it's less the understanding for me, somehow I just don't like it and always try to do it quick and dirty...so I'm always impressed to see such a clean work!:)

Nice day for you!

-sabrina

[Nothingness]

Hey Lihn: About what metal shader were you talking? Was is about everything that was metal? The rails where the 3 boxes rest upon are partly rubber, so they look a little too dark. But the rest is kind of because the invironment is rather dark too. I also have some reflection on the tape for the boxes but i could crank it up some more.
And ps, so far i always rendered using final gather. When the truck is completely textured i'll try and improve the lighting.

Hey Chaitanya: (i hope this is your first name :blush: ) Thanks a lot. I hope my details ins't going to kill me in the end. Cheers

Hey Cyril: Thanks m8. I'll see about that metal shader when i'm able to put it in an environment. This would do a lot to the shader. Now there is nog much to be reflected.

Hey Sabrina: Many thanks, i'm doing the bodywork which is the only thing left to do. But after that maybe some tweeking and ajusting the colors to mach one another.
And i had the same problem once with uv-mapping. But it depends on what you're unwrapping i guess.

cheers

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162235811_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162235811_large.jpg)

Goooooood mooooorniiing CGTalk !!
- it's evening here so ARGH -

I'm just posting this render because i could use some crits and comments before finalizing it and starting on the characters. The only BIG thing left to do here are the lights. Then i'll hope to try a better lighting with some Global illumination to get less of the contrast.

I hope you all enjoy it. Almost done i hope.

edit: i also forgot the windows. I got the front window, but i need some testing on the shading. But i'll do that with some better lighting.

cheers

[hobo]

Looks grand, the only possible crit from me might be that it could do with a bit of dirtying up here and there :thumbsup:

[johnnymaster]

very nice dude! But i must agree with hobo, it looks too clean and new, there are already some dirt, but it looks very simple, maybe you could put a wide spreaded backed ambient occlusion map in the reflection value, maybe some procedural shaders in addition, but i think, you are very hot on the characters now:twisted:

[Nothingness]

hey hobo, thanks for the comments. And yes, it's too clean.

hey Linh, i started at first with the bodyparts. But when having some troubles, i stopped them and did them last. Now i had a decent technique but seems i was a bit too afraid to make it dirty.
I'm not sure on the occulation part - or what you mean - but for now the paint has a bump (slightly bubbled to avoid extreme flatness) and i've also incorporated scratches that are not seen everywhere. With enough detail and in the highlights they are seen. I'll post a detail on that tomorrow.
So all i'll try and do is add some dirt. For now the only dirt on the side is more of 'dust'.
I'll dirty it up with some bump and add it at some other places too.

Now i got to work, so i give myself the last day of this month to finish it.

see ya'll then!

[johnnymaster]

http://www.intistudio.net/ao.jpg

i made a short ambient occlusion demo, you can also use it for dust, just have to bake it as map, so you can manipulate the occlusion further, very quick and simple method, maybe you could try it out! I'm in busy with the body work, good luck dude!:thumbsup:

[JurajMolcak]

Hey. Nice model/design. Kind of confusing with high-tech reality but very moody and adventurous. No crits so far. Keep going. Good luck!

[daWinky]

Wheee:scream: , what a color, this will make a nice contrast with the environment...really good work:thumbsup: !

But of course a lot of dust and dirt is needed, and I'm not sure of your start with this bubbly bump map, it gives not the feeling of a worn out paint, but more of underlying rust:shrug: ...may be try it with a dirt map in the reflection slot and a bump map with some scratches...?!
Anyways, this vehicle looks already amazing!:)

-sabrina

[SweD]

Morning Nico,
Pleeeeaaazzze Call the 911 NYFD ! :scream: :bounce:

Finally this one is soon finished ! You've realize a great job friend, some dirt map on wheels and dirt & stripes on body, and it will be perfect ! great job mate ! :bowdown:

[Nothingness]

Hey Linh, great example man! :thumbsup: i'll have it a try but i need some experimenting. How exactly do you do this - in XSI was it? - if i'm not mistaken, like in maya, you set an overal white color around your object and bake the occulasion map? But your example really looks more like a dirtmap. I don't know if there is a dirtmap for maya, maybe i'll check that out as well.

Hey Oweron, thanks for the comments. And about the high-tech: in my translation of the story, the past comes eye-to-eye with it's future. So i'll try and make a contrast there. So that's why the vehicle isn't high-tech.

Hey Sabrina, I made it so that i can easily ajust the color by changing 2 nodes. We'll have to see how it fits the environment later on :applause:
And yeah, you're right about the bump. I'll make it right today. I'll spend enough time to make it look at least 'used'

Hello Cyril, Almost finished my FF (French Friend :twisted: )
Now let's get budy and roughen up that bodywork.


cheers all

[johnnymaster]

yo Nico, actually this was Cinema, but it's all the same, Ambient Occlusion is in fact not a dirt map, it's a more complex calculation, but with simple setups, it looks like dirt. In XSI that is also use mental ray, ambient occlusion is present in a Node, so you could search for it in maya, i think it's the same. Because ambient occlusion has to be calculate, you should bake it as a map otherwise it takes too long to render. Good luck on it dude!

[ChewyPixels]

Hey Nico. Maya has a render preset for an ambient occlusion pass using Mental Ray. I use it often when compositing images, but can't really tell you about baking it into a texture map as I've never experimented with that. I will give it a try sometime.

I hope this bit of info helps.

[Nothingness]

hey linh, seems like the contrast is much higher in cinema, or did you bump it up in photoshop? I'm trying some more cause i get a problem because the uv's on the body is the same for both halfs. That way there were some artifacts and problems with the non-symetricalness. But at this point i should have some descent maps to test with in a few moments. Then i can redo my bodywork.
ps. how big was that 1hour+ render of your face? I would love to see it in full res. Got a link to it, or wanna mail it? I'm a sucker for detail :blush:

hey Jedi, i know how to do it, so thanks for helping out. You just gotta select your object and at Lighting/Shading and go to Batch Bake(mental ray)
with some tweeking and testing you get wat you need.

only donwside to it: baking only uses 1 cpu while i have 4 of them. What a waste :banghead:

cheers all

[ChewyPixels]

only donwside to it: baking only uses 1 cpu while i have 4 of them. What a waste :banghead:

cheers all

Argh! I'm so jealous! :twisted: I wish I had 4 cpu's. :D

[Nothingness]

it's kind of a blessing to have much firepower :bounce:

for example, the last render of the truck at 1920x1200 was about 13min.
But on the other hand it's a shame that software doesn't use all cpu's at
all. And i mean things like simulation.
I'm using a g5, so if you want the cheapest and best quad: Mac pro !!
The only downside is that maya isn't universal so doesn't work like it should
on that mac pro. So you could install windows or linux. I'm intended of installing
a 64-bit linux on the G5 to even get more render-speed out of the 64-bit.
A thing about osX is that it seems they are working on a system where apps
don't need to be programmed to use all cpu's.
And if you watch apple carefully you might see an 8 core comming up. If the rumors
are correct.

cheers

[johnnymaster]

Argh! I'm so jealous! :twisted: I wish I had 4 cpu's. :D

yeah really a lucky guy this nothingness:twisted:


@ Nico: no, actually it's the setup what makes it looks more contrast, i increased the samples and the spread value, cinema has also a contrast value.

The 1h+ render of the face is posted already (the biggest thumbnail on the right), yeah, it's really just so small, the rendertime for the skin is huge, i think, i'm going to use a simpler version of it for the animaton. Don't worry, if i have some HD renderings, you'll see it dude!

[Nothingness]

you're the best :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

i'm busy on mapping the occlusion. From the moment i have the ones i need i can get busy.


and for the quad: thursday i'll bring him in to fix that cooling problem. I hope i have it back soon :banghead:

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162351353_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162351353_large.jpg)

I was hoping to complete it tonight with the lights and all, but seems i failed again.

But anyway, i want to thank everyone for pushing me to achieve this higher level of shading than the previous render.

Good night all!

[johnnymaster]

Wow! How did you do that dude? Painting bump maps in photoshop? Or directly on the model or what? The dirt looks very realistic, the tires too. I'm also on the tires now, will make some concepts for the vehicle tomorrow.
Uh, by the way, the glasses are too clean, maybe put a simple procedural shader into the reflections and specular channel. And did you get the ambient occlusion thing running?

Good luck and good night!

[simovici]

Very nice textures. I likethat combination of colours, my favourite 2 colours: red and orange.
I don't know, maybe the specularity is too high on such a dirty old car.

Keep it up.

[Nothingness]

@ simovici: thanks a lot. I didn't know what colors to use, so i made sure i can change them instantly without changing textures. And it's not kind of an old truck! It's just a truck designed in the present with the visions of the future back in the 80's.


Hey hey hey Linh,
Thanks a lot. I'm so glad i can push my abilities just a little further thanks to your comments and help. The occlusion worked fine. You can see it clearly in certain places, but for the most parts it's only noticable when comparing it to the other render where there is no oclusion used. You can see the occlusion nicely at the boxes at the top. Where there is a soft shadow!

The dirt is done bu making 3 textures in photoshop and projecting them onto the model in maya. It's by making a special layered texture and projecting and adding the different textures. (up to 6). Then i baked the textures into normal textures so you can adjust a little and voila. This way you have no problem with matching the carosserie with the doors.

Ant the tires, wel ... i only added the occlusion thing :blush: so no changes there ;)

I know about the window. I added that spacular map as if it's from dried rain. You can see it on the side windows, but for some reason it disapeared on the front window. And i don't know why but it looks like there is no shadwo in the interior. I think there is something wrong with the light.

[hobo]

that's looking nice. I agree with simovici about the specularity, and maybe tone down the reflective a bit. Put some sort of noise on it maybe. :thumbsup:

[angel]

Wow, you have done quite a bit of progress. My only comment so far is that I would expect the tires and rim to be dirtier to match the dirt on the fenders of the truck. Looking nice.

[TheSoracle]

Holy, it has been such a long time since i have visited the forum. Looking incredible Nothingness!!! So much you have updated since the untextured version i Last saw :p Well, best of luck again as you are almost done your train already.

- Steven

[Nothingness]

Hey hobo, thanks for the comments. In an half an hour i'll have the final renders ready and you'll see that it has changed a lot. But i'm affraid i can't agree with the fact that an old can't be reflective. And once again, it's a retro design, but nog an old car :thumbsup:

Heya SNoWs, The dirt on the weels and rims have been redone. Maybe not as much as you would want too, but it's not a cross-country race-truck :twisted:


Hello Steven, long time no see! Now i think the next updates will blow your mind. A friend of mine keeps pushing me in perfecting the truck cause tonight will be the last night i can do some hefty work before i send in my mac. And it could be i'll have to mis him for a long time. Anyway, final updates on the truck comming up.


cheers all

[johnnymaster]

Hey dude! Sorry, i hadn't realize that the tires are already dirty on the milestone before. So, could you manage to finish the vehicle this night or what? I'm working non stop for 15h on the tires, now i'm sitting on the procedural shaders, i will post the tire (without felly yet) this night.

see you later!

[Nothingness]

hey linh,

the truck is finished. Unless i made a mistake somewhere? :banghead:

i am rendering at the moment and i will do 3 renders. Normaly the render is a 1920x1200 and takes about 10 min with a min. sampling of 0 and max of 2.
But since it is a final render of the truck i'm doing it at min.2 and max 2.

From tomorrow on i'll have a big breack cause i'm feeling lots of stress in my shoulders :argh:


can't wait to see your wip of the vehicle.
ps. here are some closeups and testrender:

http://users.skynet.be/nothingness/3idee/EON/headlight.jpg
http://users.skynet.be/nothingness/3idee/EON/taillight.jpg

[johnnymaster]

mannoman.....the lights look great, very authentic, i'll try to come near to this, in fact.....it will be my first vehicle hahaha, i have only character and environment experiences. Once again, very nice renderings, can't wait to see the whole finished car in HD resolution!

[Nothingness]

hey linh,

it's my first vehicle as well :twisted:

the lights are very simpel so don't worry about it. I'll tell you all about it when you get there mate. I'll be posting the renders now, but if you want to see them in full resolution as i rendered them, i'll be glad to mail them to ya.

cheers en t'ill later

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162443018_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162443018_large.jpg)

here is the front !

no much explenation cause it's 5:50 am and i need sleep.

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162443090_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1162443090_large.jpg)

the back side of the truck - obvious


now a little backup and to bed.

good morning all :argh:

[johnnymaster]

great color kombination, nice tires! I'll send you a pn with my email addy, so you can send me the HD version, very curious to see them, okay, i will jump to bed now, see you later mate!

[daWinky]

Morning Nico,

wow, very fast work and a great result:thumbsup: ... very convincing, especially great work with the wheels. And I really like your color combination:) ! Only suggestion maybe the dirt texture on the windows looks to uniform and perhaps you can have some visible dust or dirt on some of the upper parts...All in one: very impressive!

-sabrina

[hobo]

Splendid. :bounce:

[ChewyPixels]

Cool! Looks ten times better than your previous version. I do think though that it has a little too much rust for my tastes, but that's just me. :) Perhaps the specularity could broken up a bit, too. Looks too even...if you know what I mean.

[SweD]

Splendid. :bounce:

+1
nothing to crit

[TheSoracle]

Wow. You continue to blow my mind Nico. This is incredible. I don't feel ike checking, but was the train not just red at the last update? Or am i imagining things (which is very possible)

Anyway. Perfect in every way.

By the way, why are you sending in your mac?

- Steven

[Jonesisme]

Very beatuiful model. Interesting mix between a VW Van and a military vehicle. Are still going for the image you did in you concept?

[Nothingness]

@ Linh: thanks mate, the combination was a suggestion from a good friend. It's based an a real coloc combination from the VW vans. I just fear that the tyers might lose it's power at the final render when they show too big. So i think i'll see at the end what needs to be changed.

@Sabrina: Good morning to you too ! Thanks for the comments. And about the windows, yeah, i'll have to look at that. It'll be on my to do list that i'll post right after this one. But they will be done sometime near the end. certain things will be done for perfecting the vehicle to make it a pertfolio issue. See ya soon :thumbsup:

@ hobo: :blush:

@ Jedi: thanks man, the rust is actually not rust but dirt. Now i'll lower it a bit (especially at the big parts) and try to fix the bump and color problem. At the back part you have the idea it's rust that comes up from under the paint. But normally it shouldn't be like that. So i'll fix it some time later. Cheers

@ Cyril: :blush: :blush:

@ TheSoracle: i told you it would! :twisted: and yeah, it was red the render before. This one fits more in the style of retro and has a much more cool style to it.
And the computer needs to be repaired at a pump for the liquid cooling of my cpu's. Imagine working on a computer where the fans of the cpu are blowing at max RPM. It can make you crazy. I have to set the powermanagement to reduced to stop the noice. Result: when a render takes 3min48sec on reduced to render, it takes 1min48sec at the setting with the hude noise level. And my warranty is almost expired so :banghead:

@ Jonesisme: Thanks, it's indeed a mix. And i'm still going for the concept as posted first! I'm still not sure on the composition. I'll have to work on it as soon i got the characters.

cheers all!

[Nothingness]

to do list for the truck:
___________________

1. the front rim will be used at the back too. (all the same then)
2. the back tire is larger in diametre and will be the same as the front.
--- This way the back will look lighter and more comfortable.
--- Also it will fix the strange proportion when rendered in perspective.
3. The dirt will be reduced so it looks a little more realistic and correct.
4. The chrome caps on the rims need to get dirty.
5. the toolbox, the step and the little generator between the wheels needs dirt.
6. I'll need to look at the windows too!
7. The ladder at the beck needs some dirt at the botton. Too clean right now.
8. the handle for the door at the back should change to the same as the front.
9. The mirror will change a little in shape and color so it looks like it's ajustable.
10. The tube running in the middle need some dirt at the bottom.
11. The elastic binders at the rack whould change a little color.
12. The bump texture for the dirt at the back needs some tuning.

This is hefty list, created with the regards of a good friend who has the full res images on his desktops and when looking at it the whole day he noticed things that are not directly clear. Thanks alot pall !!

so the truck isn't really finished yet :banghead:

[ChewyPixels]

So sorry about thinking it was rust. :D Since it's dirt, I would suggest making it look less bumpy (perhaps no bump could work) and less diffuse. You should still be able to see the vehicle's color underneath. Unless, of course, the vehicle has been doing lots of off-roading fun. Really great piece you have nonetheless.
so the truck isn't really finished yet :banghead:
Man, I feel your pain. I've been slowed down by work, inexperience :blush:, and neck/shoulder pain from recent surgery I had in early August. Too many things to do and time's flying by. I hope we both finish on time.

[amz23]

It's nice to see your steady progress, nice evolution of the model, not being stuck because of problems, tweaking too much or adding unnecessary detail :)

I like the retro-futuristic look of the van, reminds me of Fallout ;)

GL and keep up at that pace!

[Golpe]

Very cool It´s very cute haha:thumbsup:

[krrrk]

hey nico,

looking nice, however, I prefered the red colour actually, but that's personal i guess
keep it up :thumbsup:

[daWinky]

Hey Nico,

that's a heavy to-do-list and perhaps your friend is too hard to you:scream: ...but with good eyes, some of the things I haven't seen...so I'm looking forward to see the vehicle perfect!
I hope your Mac is back soon, it must be a pain only working with the laptop...

Have a good start in the week:) !

-sabrina

[DMarkwick]

Very nice model indeed, I can almost hear the crunching of gravel as it passes :)

[Nothingness]

@ Jedi-juice: Don't worry about the dirt mistake :thumbsup: it's a crit comming from your unconciousness and is more helpfull than you can imagin! It shows it's still not clear to everybody :applause:

@ amz23: thanks a lot. Somehow there isn't enough detail, but i learned at the previous challenge that you need to hold back at a certain point.

@ GonzaloGolpe: cute? you should see it with a custom sprayed pin-up on it, i did for a friend! :twisted:

@ krrrk: hey tom, thanks and this color was a discision to fit the retro and the atmosphere best. But changing color is as easy as the opposite of changing the cooling system of my powerMac! :wip:

@ daWinky: hey sabrina, you know, you can't be hard enough i always say. In a way it always make you see things up front next time you do them.
about the Mac, it's almost a complete week and i'm going nuts. I just tried doing some work on the laptop and it makes me sick! Working in a non-optimized maya on an intel-mac is a pain. But doing it in windows on a mac is a horror. When you get something the thing crashed. And it crashed good :banghead:
i hope i hear something soon in the morning. This is unbareable

@ DMarckwick: you must have a silent computer casue all i heard was lot's of noice :twisted:
but thanks a lot, if i had a little more time i would have put a more realistic ground under the truck and you could have seen the gravel a swell :wip:

[ChewyPixels]

Hey Nico. So sorry to hear about the your hardware problems. I'm also dealing with hardware issues on both my desktop and notebook. All video driver issues. :( I need a new PC bad.

Well, good luck on getting your mac back. Hey, that rhymes. :D

[Zapan]

Heya Nico ...

The truck is totally amazing ... :eek:

Eagerly wainting to see more !

cheers ,

-Zapan

[Nothingness]

hey jedi-juice, been over 2.5 weeks and so far the parts for my computer hasn't even been shipped. So far i'm going mad and furious.
I've been doing some modeling on the laptop and i got a head ready this night. Posting it in a minute.

Hey Zapan, long time man. So how's the teaching? Takes up really a lot of time besides the school hours right?
Thanks for the crits. I hope i can perfect it like i wanted. But no descent computer = no descent work.

cheers all

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1164080493_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1164080493_large.jpg)

any comments are welcome!

cheers

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1164080564_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1164080564_large.jpg)

and again, all C&C most welkome.


cheeers

[ChewyPixels]

Hey, you're back! I thought you went AWOL on us. :D Sorry to hear about the continuing hardware issues. I hope that gets solved quickly.

As for the head..nice start. Is this Lanier or Patricia? The ear looks good from the side. From the front it looks a tad too flat. Perhaps you can shape it a bit more so that it doesn't look too pressed to the head...if you know what I mean. Also, the nose looks a bit off around the nostrils. Don't know how else to really tell you. Try looking at more reference pics for this. Or, if you have a small mirror around try looking at your own nose. Could be very helpful.

Keep on rockin'! :buttrock:

[Nothingness]

hey jedi,

i know, i've fallen so far behind. I just got the word the logic-board has arrived. Thing is that it's not even all fixed. So i guess there will be some other parts that needs replacing. Propably cooling. Funny part is that the cooling is attached to the CPU so they probably both will be replaced. In the end, i guess it would've been cheaper to give me another computer.

anyway, i know the shading of the rendering is rather flat, but i hope the next screenshot tells you for sure who the face is fore :blush:
Did some minor ajustments and i'll leave it for what it is. Once shading and texturing comes, it will all be different.

cheers

http://users.skynet.be/nothingness/3idee/EON/face_screenshot.jpg

[daWinky]

Hey Nico,

great to see you've started the head, looks like solid modeling:thumbsup: , hard to say something with this flat shaded view, but I agree with Jesus about the ear, a little flat in the frontview...and I'm really sorry to hear that your computer is still not back:scream: ! It's really a long time now, so annoying for you...hope you can continue with some work on the laptop while waiting for your Mac...

Nice day for you!

-sabrina

[krrrk]

hey nico,

welcome back
yeah, I've been out of this challenge too long as well
cause I'm in between new projects for my work
so I didn't have much time
I'm tryiing to construct nice buildings though, but it' s my first time and it sure isn't easy to get exactly what you want, so ....
I'll update my thread in the near future

regarding your face model
to be honoust, when I first saw it, I thought it was a male face you did
I think there are some areas you should modifie a bit, like the ear and the jawbone
I think that jawbone is too male like
however this single model, you've posted last is better then the turnaround
she looks much more like a woman there

greetz
tom

[Nothingness]

hey Sabrina,

thanks for the comments. I'm planning on changing the ear soon and many other things.
Hope i can get i to look acceptable!

cheers


Hey Tom,
I'd rather get set back cause of work than caused by a lack of hardware. But anyway, i'm chekcing up closely wheter or not i would be able to finish the challenge too.

About the head, it's so annoying that the screenshots or rendering looks so different from when you see it in 3d. But i already got a short list of things to do to change all that. I hope i'll be better cause i'm loosing focus on it.
I have the weekend to do some work, and then next month i should have a total of 19 days to work like hell. I really hope i have my computer back by then.

cheers man and waiting for updates.

[Bergquist]

I love the retro feel you're incorperating with the truck! Will that style ty over anywhere else?

Your Truck went exactly to plan and looks perfect for the scene! It will be great to see your characters and environment together!

The Head looks nice... I haven't read the book yet, so I don't know about the character's description, but the model it self looks great! edgeloops and all!

Cheer! and I'm really looking forward to seeing the rest of the character!

- I've just entered this competition, so hopefully as soon as I get some work done you'll have a look and let me know what you think. Peace Peace

[SweD]

Hey Nico, here again! what a surprise when i've seen your head modeling ! me and my brain have stop on the truck :scream: and don't except to see a head, and such a head.
You doing a very great job friend.

Sorry for your hardware :sad:

keep on dude ! :thumbsup:

[Nothingness]

Hey bergquist, thanks for the comments. The retro will only be in the clothes (i hope) and mybe te few items held. The total should be about the contrast of both the environment and the visitors. Besides that, i have no clue of to what it will come.
let's hope for the best.
cheers

hey SweD: I wished i could have finished the truck to the state i would want it in. But now we'll need to do it with the time that we will have left.
I hope i can post the complete character this night. But i gotta work this night so i'll have to hurry.


cheers all, and i'm not dead (yet)

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1165262335_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1165262335_large.jpg)

Don't mind the feet ! I wasn't in the mood to model them in detail. Maybe when i have more time.

If there are any serious remarks, please gime 'm now. I'll be starting the clothing soon. Tomorow i hope.

cheers all

[johnnymaster]

hey dude!

mannoman.....wow! So detailed....great!

So how do you plan to make the clothes? Simulation or hand modeling? As you can see, i've modeled the clothes, then simulated the wrinkles etc., so i have my base cloth models now, i'm going to add more detailed and some replace some simulated wrinkles with handmodeled one. As i can see you've improve the face right? It seems so on the 3/4 perspektive, looks really good!

See you later

[VietEmotion]

wouww wouww, nice body, great looking female body dude... wonderful ass:D

[SweD]

:eek: your model is very great Nico !! :thumbsup:

[Nothingness]

heheehhehe all ! :bounce:

i'm back huh!

Linh: thanks pall, i've changed the face indeed. It's subtle, but it's there! The clothes will be modeled. I doubt i can do the same as you did in maya. In maya you need to do the clothes like you are making patches and then simulate. There are a-other methods too, but time is short to check them out. At the moment i was looking at the hair and how to do it. Still many questions but it's comming.
Back to the clothes: i'm thinking on a very clean style that is made of a thicker fabric so i don't need to much tiny wrinkles. I model the most of em, and create loops where there could be change. This way i got it easy for the uvs. Then when the model is positioned, i can reshape the clothes a little to what it needs to be.
So, i think this is the simplest and fastest way.
Cheers mate

VietEmotion: thanks alot. I like the ass too! Too bad she will be dressed :twisted:

Cyril: so glad you like it. The model was the thing i wanted to do right this challenge. I know for sure i succeeded just thinking about my previous challenge :buttrock:

[ChewyPixels]

Wow, really impressive! If I remember correctly, weren't you a bit worried about getting her right? Looks like you succeeded.

I agree with you about the cloth modeling workflow. I'll be doing something similar, that is if I get there in time. :argh: Model basic clothes on model, pose, and rework the mesh.

Nothing more to say other than I'm anxiously awaiting your next update for Patricia.

[irananimator]

Hi Nico :)
really nice modeling.
Best wish For you.:thumbsup:

Hamed katebi

[Nothingness]

hey Jesus and Hamed,

thanks for the comments and cheers.


i have some great news (after one full month)
I HAVE MY MAC BACK !!

worst of it was, that i was testing it and it seemed that the harware Open GL was so slow, that my old pc could beat this 7800. Just when i said i was going to return tomorow and get pissed at those guys, i wanted to change my HDD's and noticed a connector hanging loose.
They even forgot to connect the f r e a k i n graphics card !!

but okay,
lets focus on the challenge,
and booz (to calm me down right now)

cheers all

[ChewyPixels]

Hey Nico. Great to hear the good news. A loose connection...unbelievable. Oh well. Time to get rockin'! :twisted:

[element5]

Hi there Nico, Popped in to have a look at your thread. Thats one interesting Retro Truck, where can i buy one of these KombiKats..lol..awesome. Looking forward to more of your models.
Cheers
Mark

[daWinky]

Hey Nico,

so your Mac is back!! Great news, that was about time! No words about the unconnected graphic card...just poor:rolleyes: ...
And now you can work with full speed again, but I see you've already made great progress with your Patricia:thumbsup: , no crits from me, she's looking very good so far and I'm eagerly waiting to discover her with some cool clothes...:bounce:

-sabrina

[Nothingness]

hey jesus, time to get rockin' indeed. I've been working on the clothes, but i'll post when i think it's worth showing. Maybe i'll post it before i start on the texturing and shading. I really want to finish that Patricia model fast so i can get started on the rest.

element5, .... hmm ..... how about you send me a check, ... and i'll send the truck :twisted:
just kidding, thanks a lot. I hope i'll be able to finish it up just the way we like it. Problem as you go on, is trat after a while you want to change everything.

Sabrina, thanks. I was fortunate enough to model her during the time on the laptop, otherwise i would've been lost. But we're not out of trouble yet. So little time left.

Aufwiedersehen :thumbsup:

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1165858037_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1165858037_large.jpg)

it's finally done. I also did the character setup and a bit of weight painting. Now next is to do some texturing.

cheers all

[chandro]

great model! just one comment, is the shoes final? seem doesnt fit for a spacesuit. was thinking more comfortable type

[VietEmotion]

yeah man, this looks awesome, and i like the high boots yeah sexy:D and don´t make space boots!

[ChewyPixels]

Very impressive work on Patricia, Nico. I think it will do the job for this project. Besides, with the little time left, you can't be too picky. :)

For the boots, I suggest leaving them as they are. They look good on her. Besides, we are allowed some artistic freedom. :D

What do you plan for the hair? Are you going with mapped polys, sculpted hair, paint fx, or hair simulation?

[SweD]

hey Nico great update, i really like her pants. Maybe the heel of the boots is too high and rounded, but maybe it's the left perspective which leads me astray.

Same question like jesus for the hair. ;)

:thumbsup:

[Nothingness]

hey chandro: Thanks a lot. The shoes are final. I'm not concerned about it being functional. The boots are designes to be ajustable and the bottom part is replacable. But since the chamber doesn't have the same gravity i'm not bothered with it. Besides, i think it's look better. Just to try and make it sexier. Maybe i should have exagerated it even more. But i'm leaving it as is.

Hey Tuan: thank you man, i hope it'll become sexy all the way. Just hope we can get the textures and shading right.
cheers

Hey Jesus, Thanks, i'm really happy with the result when i compare it to my work in the previous challenge. I really learned a lot from then.
And yep, the artistic freedom is there alright!

About the hair, i did some quick tests to see how i could use the maya hair plugin. Se far i think i'll manage it nicely. Only problem is that the hair needs to be rendered at a sampling of 4, which is 2 times higher than the rest. So it will be done in a second pass. It will take much time. I won't go for polys cause i'm not really good at that. And this hair thing is awsome realistic.
cheers

Hey Cyril, thanks man, the hair thing is explaned above, and the boots, well, i think the heels might be a little too rounded. But we'll see what it does in the final pose right.
ciao

[chandro]

"designes to be ajustable and the bottom part is replacable." if that the case
then its good! :-)

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1166299341_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1166299341_large.jpg)

Hey all,

first off, i know there are lines on the side of her head. The got visible when i did a higher res rendering, so i'll fix 'm soon. The overall has a kind of oldies look that would fit the truck. Reason is also that i can't do it in a realistic way. And to be honost, this is my first real texturing and shading of a head. The head and cloths both use a SSS shader, so it took some time to get it right.

All there is left to do for the character are texturing the boots hands and do the hair. I hope i'll finish that tonight.

cheers all

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1166385920_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1166385920_large.jpg)

Ok, i saw the serious flaws after i checked my update again. I was working too close on it, so i made some changes. I also made a short turnable that you can play with.

Cheers


::::::::: THE TURNAROUND !! ::::::::: (http://users.skynet.be/nothingness/3idee/EON/face_turnaround.mov)



yeah

[johnnymaster]

Thats a big step forward dude! I had the privilege to have a look on a turnaround-animation of this face and it looks fantastic!:bounce: keep on it!:thumbsup:

[daWinky]

Morning Nico,

good to see you're making fast progress again:) ! I really like her clothes, including the boots, very nice style:thumbsup: ! And also good to see the textured face now, I'm really eager to discover her with hairs...

-sabrina

[SweD]

your model is very great, and the texturing is fantastic. A really good job Nico ! thanks for taking time to make a turntable ! :thumbsup:

[ChewyPixels]

Hi Nico. She looks good. My only crit is that her eyes are a bit blood-shot. Perhaps toning down the red eyes would make her look better.

[Nothingness]

Hey Linh, thanks man. I learned so much ne things this challenge. One of them is to have a backup system at all times ;-)
I hope you'll like the next update. I should have the character finished (without hooking it up to the rig)

Hey Sabrina, i was under the impression i was going slow on this one. I lost time again on redoing the head a little, but i think it's worth it.
And the hairs should be comming up soon :twisted:

Hey Cyril, thanks, and no problem for the turnable. I made it to be sure the face looked good all around.

Hey Jesus, Thanks for the eye crit. I'll pump it down a little. I'll have a complete render soon.

cheers all

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1166567194_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1166567194_large.jpg)

hey all, i'm so glad i got up to this point with the patricia model. I know the problem with the shading on the clothes! It's because the surface isn't smoothed enough for the SSS shader to work.

Now all that's left is to stick her back on the character rig and work on the pose. But now i'm gonna do he background. It's about time.

cheers

[icedeyes]

Hi.... great work on the model and cloth... One crit i have is for the cheekbones that seem too flat (almost asian characteristic) or it might just be the lighting... Other than that great work...

[alvin-cgi]

good model and textures design, althought her skin look a bit flat, did you try sss?
but it is unique design, well done.:thumbsup:


ENO (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=413368)

[daWinky]

Hey Nico!

Great to see your Patricia already complete! She's looking nice now with the hairs, amazing result for the short time you had to work on the model:thumbsup: ...I agree that the skinshader may need some more work if you find the time for it, but first I'm eager to see her rigged and placed in the scene:bounce: !

-sabrina

[arturro]

Hi there!
nice progress, hair looks great, I like it. My only crit here are her shoes... She should have more comfprtable ones, without heels, more like mountain travel shoes.]
good luck!

[Nothingness]

hey Icedeyes: I don't think it's really too flat. Have you checked the turnaround a few post before? You can see the shape much better. As well as the skinshader. And i don't mind is she looks a bit asian. It would even be great.

Hey Alvin: Did you check the previous post with the head? Maybe you think the skinshader looks better there. It's still the same shader and almost the same lighting. Only less detail. And yes, i have uses a fast skin SSS. I even used a fast simple SSS vor the clothing :banghead:

Hey Sabrina: Along with some other things, i try and wait until the end to see how much time is left. The skin shader might look different in another light environment, so i'll wait till the final scene to see if it needs tweaking. I just finished doing the main rigging to be able to set her in place in the scene. Did that now because i need her for testing of the composition.

anyway, i hope i'll be able to spead things up. Cheers

Hey Arturro: Thanks, but there was already a little discussion about the boots. There are as many pros as contras. So i'm sticking to this cause i want it more designed to my artistic goal, rather than functionality.
but everyone has his/her opinion :thumbsup:

cheers

[arturro]

ok than, sorry for not readinge whole thread, not much time and just looked at your works.
good luck!
I'll be watching :)

[Nothingness]

Don't worry, i have the same problem ;-)

[angel]

Good job on Patricia, however, why did you give her high heels? Wouldn't that be a little unpractical?

Looking forward to the background.

-edit-
nevermind, just read your reply to arturro.

[Nothingness]

no problem!

i'm not happy about the background, but at the moment there is a lot of time spend in the animation. Rendering takes so long.
I'm rendering in layers and parts, so when i have time enough, i could change what i don't like.
i hope i make it.

cheers

[gringer]

Duuuuude. Really good man. Nice design!

Cheers :D

[Nothingness]

thanks gringer,

i'll do a little update in a minute. Not much, but at least it would look like i am busy on the challenge.

cheers

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1167826786_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1167826786_large.jpg)

This is a frame for the animation. This holds only the road and the tunnel itself, so i'll need some compositing to put it all together. Rendertime for this frame at 1000x666 is about 24 min with all 4 cpu's. But in batch render everything gets rendered with only 2 cpu's. Damn you Microsoft, Damn you !!


anyway, i hope i have time enough to finishs it all.

cheers

[TheSoracle]

Hey Nico! I'm back :D

Great work so far on Patricia and the tunnel. Looks amazing. Just thought I would let you know that Patricia appears more to be a plastic figurine than a human XD. The modelling and everything is outstanding, but the skin texture is a bit iffy.

The tunnel looks sweet and I really like the lighting. Can't wait to see your finish the animation. Just to update you, my scene has gone....NOWHERE!!! Hehe... I have had no time so this challenge was about learning not competeing.

Anyway, keep up the fabulous work Nico!!! :thumbsup:

-Steven

[Nothingness]

hey Steven,

too bad you didn't have any time to spend on the challenge. It's such a great way to learn a lot by doing it. I learned so much again due to all the problems you face. The Skin shader isn't really good, but at least it's way much better then my first attempt in the previous challenge. And everything depends on how you light it, so i'll see what's going to be left of it.


Cheers and hope to see you next challenge.

[Nothingness]

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1168220183_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/15/11813/11813_1168220183_large.jpg)

Just put all the parts i have rendered together. Now i'm working on the background and last i'll render the character.

cheers

[daWinky]

Hey Nico,


wow, great progress here since my last visit:eek: , now I'm sure you'll make it just in time!
I like everything I see so far, especially your last update is impressive and your definitely on the good way:thumbsup: ! So no crits from me, just a little cheering and now come on, I'm eager to see Patricia in the scene:bounce: !

Nice day for you!

-sabrina

[Nothingness]

Hey Sabrina,

thanks a lot for the cheers. I'm really getting mixed thoughts about it all.
But so far i'm trying to get as much rendered as possible cause it takes so long.


anyway, i think the background will suck seriously, but hopefully i can give it some character with the right kind of post effects.


cheers und aufwiedersehen

[arturro]

Unique mood for the animation! I must advice to use it in the still as well... I'm not sure how, but it has much deeper emotions and is great!

best luck

[claudiojordao]

I'm so anxious to see your final image an animation. Best of luck.

[nwiz25]

woweee man! :eek: i really love the realism in this piece! :eek: im very curious as to wats at the entrance ... :bounce:

looking forward to ur updates dude!

cheers:beer: n good luck! :thumbsup: