May 2015 - Richard Cave

#7

Currently built a basic 3d model, and now starting to texture it and paint in details, this will be dropped into the shot, the escape hatches on the roof, at the moment are being corrected, sometimes I will come out of the painting and do assets seperate. This makes it easier on the CPU but sometimes paint oversize so when it I place it in, the resolution is a lot more comfortable,

What I have not done is show the blocking guides, I create a layer do a blocking guide basic 3d forms of the shot, isolate that layer and save as a png, this helps with layout assets so that they fit the scene. The model was done in sketchup saved as a OBJ and brought into Photoshop this helps with lighting.

Its a bit lonely on this forum, I am hoping someone else joins in.

Look forward to comments, and seeing other peoples work.

Richie

#8

Just blocked in my vehicle assets, bus is in, needs dressing, the road needs glass and oil and water leak, needs some more work,

The police vehicle has just been dropped in, and that will be dressed soon, thought it best to share progress.

:arteest:

#9

Hi,

For now, I like the way you choose.

It looks promising !

#10

Thanks Michael,

the perspective is really hard, I am enjoying this one,

Richie

#11

Another WIP update, having a lazy day today,

Changed the light bar, and gone into the texture map of the police vehicle, have to sort out the hot mess on the left, with the building, trying desperately to get a hi res image of that area, but struggling to find one.

Richie

#12

I like how you have really opened up the shot with the elevated rail on the right, be mindful though that you will now have to relight the foreground area which was predominantly in shade from the building on the right.

I look forward to more of your coffee break noodlings :slight_smile:

#13

Trying to work that one out at the moment I can not find a hi res image of that area, yes I love my coffee breaks,

Was thinking of putting in a unearthly object in there, but changed my mind. Still noodling through,

thanks for the support,

Richie,

#14

Another bout of coffee break madness, that left hand building in the foreground. Made me very grumpy going to smash it literally and figuratively :wip: .

Not neat and tidy as of yet, but its on its way.

Now where to place this abrams tank is my next thought.

Richie.

#15

Hi Richie,

I’m curious to see the final result (and also the place you will find for the tank, maybe in front of the left foreground building, coming from behind the camera, with only the canon and the front of the tank coming into the scene ?)!!

#16

Hope this answers your question, if you see the tank, you can see that it has been thrown through the rear skyscraper, clipped the edge of the building and ended on the ground floor, those rather messy super heroes threw it.

I tried your suggestion, but it did not read, it helped the composition, but it needed to be a character and part of the story rather than a bystander.

Now everything is finally blocked out well its time to tighten the whole lot.

Richie

#17

Update:

Loads and loads of work, still to do, thats a lot of coffee.

Richie :bounce:

#18

Make sure you match the colour and lighting to the plate when you add new elements.

#19

Your correct that is what I am now working on there are three areas that need more work doing, then I am going through the layer stack and changing colour and lighting, that needs to be done as body of work in a couple of hours. Time which I am fighting to get, so it will be done, doing this on breaks and lunches,

Thanks for helping out,

Richie.

#20

Some catch up and clean up, still loads to do,

Richie :arteest:

#21

Was not happy with some of the items, so done some noodling, gonna put this away for now, I have tomorrow booked for tightening the painting, so glad I have 16Gb of RAM in my MBP. Going to get out the wacom and do so fine texturing, and painting. I have done all of this just with trackpad at the moment.

I know everyone is getting perturbed by the lighting, that is reserved for final looks, basic lighting and matching blacks is done on import, but the layers are designed so most of the elements can be done on the final mastering. Its a trick I learnt from a sound engineer, for a good audio mix. Same process with this, it works.

Current WIP:

#22

Latest update, a ton of work done, couple more hours I reckon I could call it done,

please remember this is downrezzed image from the hosting site, but there has been a lot of painting and texturing done so far.

Richie

#23

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Just a quick video of the steps done so far, so you can see the process,

Cheers

Richie

#24

this or vehicle version ??

Richie

#25

I prefer this one, the vehicles were nice models but they weren’t sitting right, I think the lighting needed some more work in order to give them greater cohesion with the surrounding enviromment.

#26

Agree with andrew,

The last one looks better :slight_smile: