HCR Modeling # 44: Soldiers through the Ages - "Mommy!!!"

#21

Thank You Tomb! I hope so :/.
After many thoughts, I chose a more dynamic pose.

I’ve started to modeling the environment…then I’ll lighting/shading and texturing everything…If I have enough time :).
BYE!

#22

Little update. This is my last WIP with mental ray.

Now I’m trying vray for the first time (and yes, I’m still experimenting with the pose…).

I would like to add the same mental ray glow effect to the sky but I need to find a way to obtain the same thing in vray…

Mumble mumble…see ya! :slight_smile:

#23

Wow the facial expression is very emotional and moving, the child running towards her too just invokes a lot of emotion for me. Nice love this!

#24

Could just render out a depth pass and use that in nuke to control a glow node, would be better than trying to get glow out of vray, and give you heaps of control

#25

Ayo17 - Thank you so much. This was my purpose :)!

darthfishpaste - Yes, you’re right. I don’t know Nuke at all but I could use something else (however maybe I don’t need this effect anymore).

UPDATE!

This is how my viewport looks like.

And this is a beauty+occlusion comp.

The main thing left to do is the kid’s hair but I would like to improve things here and there…I would like to add more wrinkles to clothes.

BYE!

#26

I like it, though the lens flare >_< I don’t think the sun is bright enough for that big of a flare, feels too forced, might be just me though.

#27

Yeah…I think you’re right. I mean I like it but it feels forced :/.

#28

Hi guys, I think that my work is finished :).
This is my final result:

And here a screen of my viewport:

I had so much fun :). May the best win!

#29

Very nice man ! i like it alot, and your timing was really good aswell, good work !

#30

Congrats looks great :slight_smile:

#31

Congratz, dreamwork great impressin.

#32

Thank you guys :)!

#33

Oh my! I’m so stupid guys, I was sure that this challenge would end today!
Since I’ve got some extra time ( -_- ), I worked a little bit more on mom’s suit (I wasn’t totally happy with it). Maybe I’ll fix other things too…

Today I sculpted some pleats and now I think that mom’s suit looks better.

It’s really REALLY hard to make the pleats of the suits pop up with a camo texture like that (If you have any piece of advise :)…).

#34

Nice rendering, mate! :wink:
to make the creases pop up you can eventually add some very rough spec, or lower the contrast on the diffuse…or even better : bring them out from a shadow pass in post-processing

#35

Thank you Nerikson! I’m following your advices. Unfortunately I don’t think that a shadow pass could help me since I’m using a normal map and the creases aren’t “real” :/.
However a good number of friends told me that the background looks unrealistically empty.
The background is empty because my aim was to create a symbolic scene but I’m doing some tests/adding things and the results seem interesting…(I’ll posting something later on).

#36

Hey Marco, you can always add post effects on photoshop, pop some blending mode layers and paint details-in, its easier and cleaner i think, nice work man !

#37

Yes, I think I’m going to add things in photoshop :).
Howeverrrrr, I modeled a house to fill the background (nothing special).

I’m adding other stuff too.

I think that I’m going to blur everthing to get more depth. I’m also experimenting with lights :).

#38

FYI
HCR Modeling # 44: Soldiers through the Ages- NEW DATELINE MAY 8

#39

Should look much nicer with background!

#40

I really hope so :).
This is my final entry…FINAL (this is not at full resolution).

Now I really like the general mood, I’m not totally satisfied but…you know, I have a lot to learn about modeling and v-ray :). I made differen changes (kid’s hair and clothes, new background, new lights).
I can’t wait to see other works :D. BYE!!!