ESCAPE - On The Edge - Burgerstorm

Ulrick

Hi everyone !

We're participating in this challenge in a team of 3 people:

• TEAM: "Burgerstorm"

Mau - Hoshi - Ulrick (myself)

A Belgo-French team :thumbup:
We've all recently left Ankama and we were already working together in their 3D team, on Slage.
Why "Burgerstorm" ? Well guys... u should try to make your brainstorms eating burgers in restaurant... That's great

• PROJECT: "On The Edge"

The main idea is someone (something ?) escaping a cave / temple / ruin on a handmade "flying machine" (flying mining cart ?), because the path (railroad ?) is broken... So that's his last chance to escape...
The beauty shots will be "taken" at the precise moment where the machine takes off, and no one will know if it's a sucess... or not

• REFERENCES:

Environment: Old Temple with mining railroad, like Indiana Jones in Disneyland, or Alcatraz in The Rock

Flying Machine: Warhammer's Dwarves Gyrocopter, Da Vinci's machines or Peter Pan's childs inventions.



I let my co-workers complete what's missing and see u soon for the first WIP... :shifty:

DLoud

Awesome concept. Can't wait to see where it goes

3shold

I've got a feeling this is going to be a good one.

Also, Burgerstorm is a perfect team name.

Ulrick

Hi Everyone !

Time to show some WIP
Nothing set or finished, we're still concepting and discussing about it !

The Temple Cave:

Our refs:



And the first concepts of Mau and I (but especially Mau :poly136: ), just follow the arrows to see the evolution:



The Flying Machine:

Some concept I did, there will be some improvments but it's almost the final version



And Hoshi, who doesn't do 2D art, is preparing hiself with some 3D tilling tests

Pixelpencil

This looks really promising!

WarrenM

Amazing concept work, holy crap. This is going to be great, nice work!

Ulrick

Hi Everyone !

So after several others concepts and iterations, Mau did the final "overall" concept on the left and Hoshi the blockout on the right:



After that Mau and I did some concepts focusing certain parts of the temple:



And I concepted some props for the environment, and there's still others to do:



Next Time, there certainly will be some first researches in 3D / Texturing

Nakedbuddha

WOW! You definitely got my attention! Great concept and idea! Green smile is so cute. :)Want to see all this in 3d.
Following this thread.
Good luck!!

Quack!

OH yea, this is looking great!

D4V1DC

This is looking good for sure, liking all the concepts as well.

Ulrick

Hi Everyone !

Some new WIPs

I did a quick test to see in which direction we could go for the redering style:



And we decided an... in-between the 2 styles Something cartoonish, hand-painted but textured with high contrasts and details.

And each of us started generic assets, to train, to search for a coherence in our styles, to familiarize ourselves with the pipeline, and so on...

Hoshi:





Mau:







And Myself:








See you for the next WIPs Thanx for the support !

Renaud Galand

looking great guys! keep up the good work

3milies

It's beautiful, nice teamwork guys

jiina

This is looking amaaaazing...

duoxan

any more updates on this?

duncan

This is looking AWESOME! Really dig the art style direction.

ziikutv

This one is a contender.

raul

Pretty awesome work!

Ulrick

Hi everyone !

We know it's been a while but... well...
"That's not dead which can eternal lie" some guy said... :poly124:

Here we go:

The last concept from Mau (forgot to show it last time):



Then Mau and I did some concept for the pilot/passenger of the flying machine, but we're not still satisfied...



And we're still producing in 3D, it takes a lot of time

Hoshi:





Mau:

Mau started a big piece of work with the flying machine, still in progress:





And Myself:









And I started to assemble the assets and quickly make a lighting and some FX in Marmoset Toolbag:



Thanks for your comments and supports !

See you !

jeebs

cool textures! I like it soo much

AimBiZ

Looks great so far. Dig the style.

Jessica Dinh

Holy crap, this is soo gorgeous! o_o All saved to inspiration folder haha...can't wait for more xD

Defeat

Wow looks great!

Alphavader

so awesome - looks very promising

ziikutv

From here, I dig the character on the lower right side, one with goggles on his head. You should definitely go for a character with some wear and tear. And please use some different colors on the scarf that the level.

I personally also feel like there should be some color differences here if that part is going to be visible for a long time in the scene.
http://www.ulrick.be/works/Polycount/TheEscape/Temple_WIP_25.jpg

I feel like the colors chosen are heavily towards one side of the color wheel. (Again this is just my unprofessional advice).

Nik

Nice, I'm really liking the look of all the environment pieces. Super chunky and cool, the only thing that stands out to me as maybe breaking that a bit is the vine bridge.
The twisted vines for the ropes seem quite a bit more busy than everything else. Maybe making those just one thick vine could resolve that? just a thought, awesome work so far.

harmless

Really cool. It reminds me of the original donkey kong level. If you could play that aspect up, you'd be my personal hero(s).

sofabound

I love the art style and color work of your concepts! Keeping an eye on this one.

Ulrick

Here is our submission !

Sorry to didn't have posted more WIP recently, but we were very focused and busy to achieve this challenge

Hope you'll like it as much as we enjoyed doing it !

mau

Thx everyone !
I've really enjoyed working on this
Hope you'll like it

Hoshi

Same here, this was really great ! Hope you guys will enjoy it.

Renaud Galand

Great job guys! I really like the dynamism of the scene. Good luck

iansmithartist

Final shots look great. Lovely execution , from concept to final piece. Great use of the portrait composition too.

AimBiZ

Dig the style of this. You guys did a great job!

MaYdaY

lovely materials and style! Very nice entry

m4dcow

This entry was probably my favorite, so much cool stuff here.

Ulrick

Thanks guys for these comments

Personally it was my first "next-gen / sculpting" experience in "real" production, and it was very pleasant to work that way ! I will try more environment works like this !

Orb

You guys did great ^^

Ulrick

Thanks man !

It's a pleasure to read that from someone who is one of your best references for cartoon-next-gen-style

(And I'm pretty sure I can talk in the name of all the team hehe )

Iciban

amazing!!! handpainted overload! Do you create all your normals through baking from highpoly to lowpoly? Or do you mix a bit of ndo/ ddo for creating spec/ nrm maps

Hoshi

Thanks man All the normals were created from highpoly base, exept maybe the ground lava tile, I don't remember for that one. NDO was mostly used for AO / Spec extraction from the baked normals.

Ulrick

Thanx !

To complete Hoshi: I also created the Lava Tile in Zbrush I'm only discovering now the power of nDo with another work we're making with Hoshi and Mau...

And if I had to do it again, I will use it much more ^^ The results are amazing !

Ulrick

I received a lot of private messages or mails about my (or our) technique of painting, hand painted textures, normal map + painted textures, and so on...

So first of all, let me thank you for your interest !

I'm in the middle of a big move right now, but when I'll be settled, I will make a quick "step by step" asset to show how I've worked on this if you're interested !