HMC #25 Wild West Ocean

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/westconcept.jpg

Here are a few sketches for the environment, haven't decided what aquatic creatures yet..

[TiMrozek]

Cool idea. Looking forward to seeing where you take this. Any idea which creatures you will be building?

[JasonTonks]

http://www.knysna-holidays.com/knyimages/natparks/seahorse.jpghttp://www.bioinformatics.colostate.edu/images/01_deepwater_shrimp.jpg

'ill start with these guys

[TheRazorsEdge]

For some reason, your sketches remind me of Spongebob!:argh: lol

Anyways, looking forward to seeing more of what you have planned.:)

Cheers!

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/buildingA_04.jpg


Pulled a late nighter last night, started building some props. It's basically just chamfers on most of the edges and random loops here and there to deform the geo to stylize the models. The poly count is around 14k tri's for the three combined. I'll be taking out sections and re-cutting them to send them in zbrush to project them some more pronounced detailed regions, so far they are a bit boring.

[JasonTonks]

Lol ...thats the first time someone compared my sketches to Spongebob... :-/

Here are some more! héhéh

http://www.3dwhat.com/horses.jpg



Got the horses sketched out.

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/shrimp1.jpg
Started the basemesh shrimp. Saddling him up in a few.

[japetus]

Haha, this is great! Especially love the buildings! Keep it up, can't wait to see how it all turns out :)

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/buildinga_05.jpg

Did a quick layout. going to tackle the Sea horse.

[PorkpieSamurai]

haha this is pretty cool.
Nice idea and great models so far.

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/seahorse.jpg



http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_06.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_06.jpg)

Seahorse Base mesh done. Going to get some environment foliage and the ground layed out.

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_10.jpg

Sketched in a few props. Still trying to figure out what should be the main creature for the scene... any suggestions?

[MightyReg]

Nice work so far! Like the style of the buildings.
With all the little rocks on the ground and the kind of ''walls'' around the buildings, this make me think a lot to an aquarium, am I wrong?

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_13.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_13.jpg)

Yeah the pebbles kinda gave it away eh.

Here is where I am at so far. I'll probably start the basemesh for the showcase piece tomorrow...

Hope you like it still so far!

[Jussslic]

This is so cool! I haven't followed the hardcore modeling challenge a lot and was kinda under the impression that realistic sculpts were usually the focus. I'm excited to see a more cartoon/stylized approach pop up here as well!

[Luke046]

Cool stuff here! Gonna be great!

[scottimation]

great concept, sure has the feel of being in an aquarium :thumbsup:

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_22.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_22.jpg)

So I added some more props. Changed the horse logo to a Fish head on the left building. Added an anchor, but it's bugging me.

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_26.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_26.jpg)

Added a basemesh Lobster and some fancy pants rays.

[chichiri]

That's an amazing work, the scene is really beautiful and there's some many details. Can't wait for updates!

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/buildingA_32.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/buildingA_32.jpg)


Well I've been a bit busy with work and lazy. Sorry for the lack of posts lately.

I'm going to try and finish this up by tomorrow.

What I still have to do:
Inside of heater / Zbrush and texture Shrimp,SeaHorse and lobster/ Add God rays/ Accentuate cactus needles and redo texture/ bubbles and debris to simulate glass/ tum-bell weed of algae/ Volumetric lights for buildings

Have any other suggestions? :)

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_35.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_35.jpg)


This is my final submit for the deadline. Almost got everything I wanted done in time!

[cherrypig]

very interesting.I will vote for you!;D

[japetus]

Great job on this Jason! A very original idea!!

[JasonTonks]

http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_35.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/BuildingA_35.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/WWgrey.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/WWgrey.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/greyleft.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/greyleft.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/greyRight.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/greyright.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/greytop.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/greytop.jpg)

http://www.3dwhat.com/WWwire.jpg (http://www.3dwhat.com/WWwire.jpg)

For the lighting setup, I used 10 spotlights with a small inner radius to simulate the watery surface highlights on the ground that the top of the water surface would create when light goes through. I also used one big omni light on top to simulate the neon effect of an aquarium. Pretty simple! I used 3dsmax and photoshop, and rendered with V-Ray. The modeling took me roughly 30 hours, Texturing 18 hours, Lighting 4 hours and Compositing 2 hours.

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