designpain
04-11-2008, 08:22 AM
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Title: Kaizers Orchestra album art
Name: Matt Pain
Country: Norway
Software: Maya, mental ray, Photoshop
Client: Kaizers Orchestra
People Involved:
Bjørn Harald Myhre: Art Director & Photographer, Textures
Myself: Modeling, Lighting, Rendering, Textures
Kent Løset: Textures
Software: Maya, Mental Ray, Photoshop.
We were approached by the Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra to create the profile for their up and coming album Maskineri.
The concept behind our idea of a "Kaizers Cinema" came from how the Kaziers music has been described as being composed in a somewhat similar way to that of a film.
The dark aesthetic was appropriate to fit the bands existing profile. They did not want anything too bright and clean and wanted to steer clear from a "CG" look, while still maintaing a slight fantasy look.
Kaizers wanted their cover to be exclusive and standout a little from a more typical photographic cover, so a lot of time was spent on the album.
The band went through a few changes in descions during the process which made life a little harder, the album name was changed and the main sigh was remodeled a few times.
Post was important to to make the image look a little less 3D, film noise was added and also some painting was done.
Eveything was modeled in Maya and photographed textures were used and painted over in photoshop, rendered in Mental ray with final gather and HDRI.
Check out Kaizers Orchestras music at: kaizers.no & myspace.com/kaizerso
Would love to hear your ideas, all c&c welcome.
Title: Kaizers Orchestra album art
Name: Matt Pain
Country: Norway
Software: Maya, mental ray, Photoshop
Client: Kaizers Orchestra
People Involved:
Bjørn Harald Myhre: Art Director & Photographer, Textures
Myself: Modeling, Lighting, Rendering, Textures
Kent Løset: Textures
Software: Maya, Mental Ray, Photoshop.
We were approached by the Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra to create the profile for their up and coming album Maskineri.
The concept behind our idea of a "Kaizers Cinema" came from how the Kaziers music has been described as being composed in a somewhat similar way to that of a film.
The dark aesthetic was appropriate to fit the bands existing profile. They did not want anything too bright and clean and wanted to steer clear from a "CG" look, while still maintaing a slight fantasy look.
Kaizers wanted their cover to be exclusive and standout a little from a more typical photographic cover, so a lot of time was spent on the album.
The band went through a few changes in descions during the process which made life a little harder, the album name was changed and the main sigh was remodeled a few times.
Post was important to to make the image look a little less 3D, film noise was added and also some painting was done.
Eveything was modeled in Maya and photographed textures were used and painted over in photoshop, rendered in Mental ray with final gather and HDRI.
Check out Kaizers Orchestras music at: kaizers.no & myspace.com/kaizerso
Would love to hear your ideas, all c&c welcome.