Uplift Universe - Image Entry: Eoin Rogan

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Eoin Rogan is entered in the “Uplift Universe Challenge” update: View Challenge Page

Latest Update: Work In Progress: The Nursery

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Hi. Here’s my first post on CGSociety ever. I though an alien caring for a human baby might make a good subject for my Uplift entry.
I’m trying to create a transparent skin over bone and metal look to this alien creature. The plan is then to have it standing in a backlit doughnut shaped corridor (like on a 2001 style space station) carrying an infant. I don’t tend to use traditional sketches for previsualisation. I prefer to render and position/ reposition the scenes component parts (rendered seperately) until I’m happy with the look, then I return to rearrange the 3d scene for rendering.

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Just some colour asjusting and some detailing to go and I’m calling this done.

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I’m trying to get a transparent skin look so I’m rendering out a underlying skeletal layer (as well as a vein layer). Here’s the skull. Complete with cybernetic ears and eyes.

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Here’s an early transparent skin test.

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Last few details done. Added the odd highlight and some seams and shadows on the aliens clothes.

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Last few details done. Added the odd highlight and some seams and shadows on the aliens clothes.

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Here’s an early render of the background. Built from a basic doughnut mesh.

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Here’s an early mockup with most of the models built and arranged in the scene. I tried out a couple of characters in the back but decided to drop then in favour of robots ferrying babys milk and medicine in the end.

#10

Okay, thats it. I’m done. :slight_smile:

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Now thats a face only a new born could love :D. Good work all around. Perhaps some more selective lighting would do nicely here to bring forward our subjects. Congrats and good luck.

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Yeah, one butt ugly alien. But with a heart of gold! :slight_smile:

Thanks for the suggestion Rares. I’ve taken it on board. I’ve called this finished but I still think a bit more work is in order. All the best.

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I think that last final image post was corrupted (didn’t seem to be displaying properly) so I’m uploading again.

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This is a work in progress render of the alien nurse character. I hadn’t done too much detailing at this stage.
(sorry, I’m not posting these wips in any particular order)

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Well I was hoping tp post on your WIP, but see I’m late.
However, liked your imagination and style.
What did you use for CGI?
The textures came out gret.
stunt1

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Hey thanks! Yeah, sorry about the posting order here it’s all back-to-front. Disaster.
I created the base models and background in Max. Rendered background in Max and alien rendered and detailed in ZBrush. I overlaid many different ZB render passes in Photoshop for lighting, shadows, gloss highlights etc. and just tried to match the aliens lighting to the backgrounds.

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