tortress WIP

#1

I’ve been working on a piece for a while now & thought that I’d share it with you as this will be my first full Messiah project. I bought Messiah purely for the renderer which I’ve regretted many times but I’ve been slowely working away at it & I think that something finally clicked today…it was a magical moment, I felt like I actually knew what I was doing &, despite a lot of work left to do, I finally feel like I know roughly how materials work in Messiah.

Anyway, if you have an account at Spinquad you can view the whole thread here: http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?p=128027#post128027

If not, here’s a quick rundown of what I’m doing… I came up with the idea of a giant tortoise carrying a castle or fortress into battle (hence tortress!). I made a start by taking reference pics of my own tortoise & modelling in Lightwave. From Lightwave I went into ZBrush & added the finer details & then…I thought that maybe I should actually do some concept sketches, which is when it changed into more of a seige tower on legs.

Here’s the concept & my first proper dabble with Messiah’s shading system.

#2

Nice start. :slight_smile: Think some DOF would bring the Tortoise out from the background. Also your concept has much more emotion that needs capturing in you render… Keep it going :thumbsup:

#3

Great start.please keep us updated!

#4

thanks for the comments.

This is purely lighting & rendering at the moment, I’ve yet to finish the rest of the scene which is why it’s floating in mid-air. The tower is modelled & I’ve got a rough scene made up in Vue (which is in the background) but I found a nice national park only a few miles from here that looks almost identical so I’ll probably take some photos & use them.

I have a question about possible ways to achieve something. The tower is to be placed on some material which I want to look like it’s moving, however I don’t really know how to go about it as the shell is displaced at render time. I had thought about just modelling a flat mesh, adding fine details in ZBrush & using bones to wrap it around the shell? I’d like to have some control over the final shape.

#5

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