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The Factory
an Old friend
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Wiz 36 posts24 Feb 2008here's a pretty old project of mine (about an year now..)
iv'e decided to visit him again, perhaps ill whip out a little animation with him.. don't know yet.. @_@
the comp is pretty rought, the camera angle etc.. just a quickie testing out my options..
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24 Feb 2008Looking good Wiz, the model and shaders look great!
a couple things:
- Turtle neck looks a bit stiff, I'd throw in a couple folds and break the symmetry to get a more natural shape.
- The sun is shining from the viewer's top left, meaning the side lighting would have to be reflected light off the building and the building is in shade there. Doesn't really look out of place, but when I try to make sense of the lighting it doesn't add up to me. If he was a few feet back in the scene to where it transitions between shadow and bright light, it would be perfect I think.
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24 Feb 2008wow nice could be a plug
the only thing i have to say is the dof is a bit to much in my opinion and the textures look a bit blurry...
but exept that
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24 Feb 2008oooooh very nice. maybe a few wires? he looks like a guy from mass effect hopefully you'll be able to figure out a nice composition for him
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24 Feb 2008yep i too would like some more info on him (as far as programs used, and anything else you'd be willing to throw in) and some wires? i agree with the dof being a little too much but other than that awesome job.
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24 Feb 2008damm that is some sweet texturing and modeling dude.
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25 Feb 2008Hey man, that looks great, Not all the way there yet, but wow, good work so far. I think the DOF is waay to much at this point. It makes it look to soft and blurry at this point, and you're losing a ton of the awesome detail, and one last small thing, is that your lighting is backwards kind of. based on your bag image, it would have the hard light coming in from the left, but if you flop your bg image, it will jive Wow though, this is def front page work man, good job.
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Wiz 36 posts25 Feb 2008wow, thanks alot for the plug whoever is incharage
Thanks for the replies guys, you are all right,I did mess up the intergration off the cg and back plate..
thing is, I was expirmenting with it either flopped or not, and this looked better as it mixed well with the
high expsourse spot on the Back plate.. About DOF, yup I went DOF Happy
Anyways, shouldn't worry you guys since I dont plan on basing my projectn a backplate, rather model
some scenery and render things properly.
mcernusca - about the turtle neck, I'd like you guys to see it in movement and then you can judge it, It is stiff
no doubt, but I think it adds a bit to the fact that he's nothing from our current world, something different fighting enemies
and scnerios we do not, adding a bit of -oddness- to it.. but could be a bit too much, ill check it out.
other then that, some details.. it was orignally modeled with XSI, displaced using mudbox, texturing in photoshop..
that pretty much sums it up, right now its renderd with mental ray Maya.. and I am in the proccess of translating the whole
thing to maya.. as it's my main app right now.. and the plan is to comp the whole thing in nuke (which as you can see I am in the process
of learning.. so it wil be a great chance to learn some composting).
and heres some wieres, sculpting phase and other little stuff.. hope you enjoy
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25 Feb 2008wow those wires look incredibly clean. and i love the mudbox of it. really cant wait to see this when it's done
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26 Feb 2008^ Very nice
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Wiz 36 posts27 Feb 2008thanks for the support fellahs
Like I said, this project gives me a chance to fiddle with something I never get to.. passes, shaders, compositing etc..
been learning around Zdepth and motion vector passes.. so this is a quick test for all the passes DOF, Motionblur.. etc
and all around to see how the shaders while moving..
so, yea progress is slow, but hopefully ill update the most I can, good night guys.
sorry for horrible compression..
fixed:
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27 Feb 2008might just be my computer but the framerate seems to skip around towards the end, right as he gives the big swing.
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27 Feb 2008again great work.. i've also seen his others poses in your gallery, they are awesome.
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28 Feb 2008everything in that render pass looks fantastic! the skin shader looks really good especially. do you plan on doing a full animation with him?
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Wiz 36 posts28 Feb 2008thanks buddy ,Yea I do.. but I feel about dry about ideas..
its hard to think of something that only show upper torso..
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28 Feb 2008if you wanna pass the files my way i could animate it
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28 Feb 2008Awesome work, very realistic. I like your lighting and how beat up the armor looks. I'm not sure about the turtleneck though.
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Wiz 36 posts07 Mar 2008Hey guys
thanks alot for the replies..
Sadly this project is advancing extremely slow.. I am swamped at work.. only have
a couple of minutes each night.. but hopefully ill be able to pull if off..
Today is a test of the eyes.. not much, just to show some progression, jaw and eyes
and rigged, with a great eye rig tutroail by john doublstien, very good eye seutp, easy and intuitve
to create fleshy and believable eye rig..
Other then that I am left with adding the blendshapes, and growing him so hair..
but I still don't have an actual idea ;(
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07 Mar 2008his eyes look really big for some reason.
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07 Mar 2008Yea I got that same feeling too...I think you need to have the lids a bit more closed on the shots where his eyes are open...it looks good on the 3rd frame, but the first one is a bit strange looking.
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts07 Mar 2008very realistic nice work dude i think the eye balls are set just a tad in front of where they should be put them back just a tiny bit to the head maybe that would work but amazing AMAZING REALISM DUDE -
Wiz 36 posts07 Mar 2008You guys were totally right, it was a combination of big eye balls, big Eye Iris and the lids were too open..also Added
a very subtle wet layer on lower eye lid.. nothing fancy just a wee bit. opefully the proportions look a bit more correct now its basically the same thing only I rendered out the sequence.
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08 Mar 2008i still think the pupil looks too big, when he looks up to our right he resembles the cat from shrek a bit lol
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Wiz 36 posts16 Sep 2008Just when you thought he's dead ( so did I..) my old friend is back
I finally finished rigging him up in Maya, I was a way for a few months from computers..
so really glad to get back to this project. I believe he is ready for a simple set building and
get to actually animate this guy finally
Fixed a few things in the shading and comping on the way..
anyways here's what I got so far:
the blends are really pushed soo obviously some wont be used to that extent (Espically the jaw open angle.. hehe)
Compression really kills colors, so this is how it should look:
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16 Sep 2008wow astonishing! can't wait to see more, but great work on your render! i hope you'll have fun animating the guy!
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17 Sep 2008hey he looks great! really nice blendshapes you have there
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17 Sep 2008Looks great!!
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Wiz 36 posts18 Sep 2008thanks abunch guys! happy you like him.
On to the other work.
well Iv'e finally set a little plot, basically a gaurd in some sort of an army facility (in the near future.. nothing too crazy).
and basically he get's scared, shouts a few words around (i'll have to find someone who can act pretty good and record him)
and then basically grab the machine gun (the type that is - straped to the wall through a shooting hole)
and then before he manages to shot the enemy, well the enemy shots him
pretty banal and straight forward, but being as he has only upper body I am pretty limited, and it works
as a cool excerise.
Anyways,iv'e been working on thumbnailing the set today, I am bad at drawing, bad at compositions and bad with colors.
so I'll love your help in this subject, anything you think should go/change/move I'd love to hear before I actually start working it.
2 things I am not sure about, the first is the placement of the moon, when I sketched out ideas it looked much better on the left
but when I started adding some colors in PS it looked really odd, so I moved it to the right, seems more of abalanced composition now
but I am not certian, second thing is the old-bricks, well the idea behind it is that usually guarding posts tend to be very messy and old
and un-maintanced, but maybe it's not working with the rest of the scene?
I'd love to hear any opinions! Thanks alot.
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19 Sep 2008are 3 and 4 the same? regardless, i like #3 the best. The stars add alot to the atmosphere(and i like the new placement of them moon, the composition comes together with it on the right like that, also draws your eye towards the character) but the only question i have about any of them is that he's in space but has no helmet, how does that work?
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19 Sep 2008but ben, with the jumper that his grandmother sewed him, he will be safe for ever! no matter where!
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19 Sep 2008ok i giveup, i cant find the difference between 3 and 4. been looking at it for 10 minutes now
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19 Sep 2008can't you see it? star #37 is a little more to the left!
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21 Sep 2008very funny
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21 Sep 2008isn't it?
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