ESCAPE - Eject! - EmAr

EmAr

EDIT: Welcome to my ESCAPE thread Below are some of the latest images. The original message starts after the quote.
Here's a short video which shows my scene in the UDK editor. I also tweak some material parameters to explain how some elements work in the scene:,

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaB8dtyjMVI"]ESCAPE - YouTube[/ame]

Most recent images:

I decided to challenge myself with this one. Here's my initial sketch. I'm quite happy with the action of the dragon. Not so sure with the overall composition and the colors though.

So, the dragons are real and they can catch fighter jets. The pilot ejected himself to escape the dragon flame but was that enough to save his life?



I'll be using CryEngine 3. I'll try to use the dX11 displacement too.

Thanks for looking

EmAr

Alright, change of plans: The terrain will be an arctic sea with a frozen volcano and some icebergs. The dragons will be ice dragons too, they will shoot freezing beams.

I made quick mockup models in Silo:



Then I tried out some ideas for the composition. I'll go with this one:



Also, I decided to use UDK as I'm currently more familiar with it. I will hopefully be able to add some cool material effects too

Thanks for looking

Saman

It's a good idea and your latest design call is pretty cool too.
If you feel that you can't achieve the feel and look of the scene by painting it you could put together a small previz scene using only 3d objects and then adding some more stuff in photoshop. At the moment I feel that the volcano's placement is a bit odd. There is a huge empty space in top-mid as well so I'd suggest playing around with the placements to see what looks best.
Good stuff!

EmAr

Thanks Saman I need to sleep now but tomorrow I'll play around with the volcano first.

Today I had the time to create a frozen surface material which uses dx11 displacement. It uses one normal map and one height map(single channel). The texture I used here is 512*512. It needs to be applied onto a copy of the original mesh. It has parameters for cloudiness, ice amount etc. I'll upload a video of the material in action if I can manage to capture video with an FPS above 10.



Final EDIT: I removed the broken video which I did put here, sorry for the inconvenience.

EmAr

I decided to give the poor guy a jetpack. Otherwise it would look like certain death for him with a parachute. Also, here's a new composition attempt. I'm still playing around though.



I also started drawing the guy. Here's my second sketch(the first one is too awful :P)


Thanks for looking

EmAr

I'll start from scratch and make some variations tomorrow.

EmAr

Update! Not a jetpack but the guy will have some wings. I'm moving towards a steampunk feel. Maybe there will be a floating ship somewhere below which the guy may want to reach. His vehicle is changed too. It's a propeller-cycle(!?):





Thanks for looking

EmAr

Some progress with the monster:

EmAr

Sculpting the wyvern's head in Sculptris. What a fun little program!

EmAr

Small sculpt update, I mashed up some Sculptris screenshots in Photoshop. It will look like this but with translucency hopefully

EmAr

I think I'm getting the hang of World Machine. I sculpted the base in Blender:



And here's the guy getting ready to be sculpted:



EDIT: Here's the Blender terrain base:

EmAr

Glacier material WIP in UDK(sorry for the crappy normals, this is just a quick low poly/bake):


EDIT: Added transmission mask:

D4V1DC

Awesome.
idk if this is real but here's a video that might help?
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81694169/

EmAr

Thanks, more reference is always better

cptSwing

Really liking all your ice magic man!

EmAr

Thanks cptSwing Here's some progress with the terrain, water(heavy WIP):

Zack-StefyRO

Great work! Keep it up

Saman

Looking nice, man. Though I'd suggest using a mix of ice and some more fleshy materials on the dragon so it looks more alive. You know, mix it up a bit. The icey parts could be the horns and other key areas whereas the rest is more dragon-like.

EmAr

Thanks for the suggestion Saman, that would definitely look better. I hope I can manage it though.

Thanks Zack

And here's a sea material update:



EDIT: I thought I'd give some technical details too:

The sea shader uses dX11 tessellation. It uses one 4 channel texture(512*512) for wave shapes. The texture is used multiple times with panners and size variations. I created the base for this texture in World Machine. It consists of a normal map and a height map.

There is a greyscale texture used for foam. This texture will be merged with something else when the opportunity arises. There's one render-to-texture entity, rendering at 512*512. Finally, there's a static reflection texture. This one can be used instead of or combined with the real-time reflection.

EmAr

I wish compression didn't kill the video but here's a preview of the ocean. It's a dynamic material but I made it so I can pause and adjust time with parameters to find a good shot:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_QOy-gIVI"]polycount ESCAPE challenge - Ocean shader - YouTube[/ame]

And here's a new dragon attempt(early WIP):


EDIT: here's a proper image of the ocean. I also added a fresnel:

EmAr

OK, I changed the concept a little again. The dragon will be attacking a boat with his freeze beam/snow tornado. Also, I stopped working on the ocean for now. Here's the current status:



My to do list is like this:

- Dragon(only the head is half-sculpted)
- The guys in the boat
- The boat
- Frozen shipwreck in the distance(frozen surface material is already done)
- Icebergs(material is already done)
- Birds made with particles (if I have any time left)

leleuxart

The water is nice! I like the whole theme too, you don't see too many ice/frozen areas with games.

Vatanist

HArika gidiyo kardes.. Merakla takib ediyorum..
Basarilar..

EmAr

Thanks, here's some progress with the dragon:

EmAr

Double post, sorry

EDIT: I guess an early WIP body sculpt is better than a double post apology

EmAr

Started the tornado effect, the image on the right side is the sculpture I used to extract the displacement map:


And some progress with the wyvern:

igi

hey man this dragon sculpt coming along nicely,keep it up.Sculpting a tornado is an interesting way to create that effect but apparently it works

EmAr

Thanks mate. Actually, I improved the tornado a little

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qie6yttAnZE"]polycount ESCAPE challenge WIP scene - YouTube[/ame]

EmAr

I added the boat's water splash effect to the scene, it needs to be optimized though. Also, the composition is getting more solid:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoZL17Kzu6Q"]minor ESCAPE update - YouTube[/ame]

SimonT

really like you ice shaders!

JGBulmer

THis is really nice!

EmAr

Thanks guys! Actually, I made a video in which I explain how the glacier material works:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz0mE3bzQ-0"]UDK refraction and iceberg material tutorial - YouTube[/ame]

Also, here's a character update. There will be 2 or 3 of these guys on the boat. One of them will be shooting flares to the ice dragons. I hope it's not too bad

EmAr

I'm finally happy with the tornado. There will be a splash particle system at the base of the tornado but it's 2 AM here, I better sleep

EmAr

Boat high-poly is almost done:



A video of the ocean vortex effect:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jm-ObLgsCM"]polycount ESCAPE scene preview - YouTube[/ame]

d1ver

Keep up the good work Emre!
Nice job on the shader breakdowns too. Although a cheerier voice wouldn't hurt It's fun making cool shader so making it sound that way shouldn't be a bad thing

Good luck with the rest of your scene! Looking forward to seeing it done

EmAr

Thanks Andrew Yeah, I need to learn to speak better. Maybe I should get into this google+ hangout thing. Thanks for reminding.

At this point I quit using Sculptris and start using 3D Coat for sculpting. It feels closer to real clay for me and I like that. There are tons of work to do on this but I'm pretty happy with the head:

EmAr

This started to look like a boat finally:



And partially frozen(hit by the dragon's freeze beam :P):

EmAr

Better foam for the ocean shader:



Progress with the wyvern in 3d Coat, this model has about 20 million tri's and it's still workable. Loving 3d Coat so far

EmAr

Tornado update, everything is animated including the base swirl:



Dragon update:

EmAr

Improved the proportions of the dragon:



Started over with the boat guy:



EDIT: here's a new video:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6JJNUlstOc"]ESCAPE scene preview 2 - YouTube[/ame]

EmAr

Here are the final sculpt and a grey bake in UDK(I overlaid 2 screenshots):





And a wireframe to show the level of tessellation I used. Probably I'll have to use a lower tessellation multiplier in the final scene:



EDIT: here's the low poly base for tessellation:

EmAr

Some additions/modifications, let's see what I can do in 4 days The splash FX will be replaced.

EmAr

I tried a portrait composition today. Also, I made water droplets on the screen and base splash for the tornado. The dragon is still far from complete. I'm adjusting the cage with my little baking knowledge. Here's the current state:



The ship wreck, a flare gun, a walkie talkie, the freeze beam of the dragon are also things I want to add.

Thanks for looking

EmAr

Posed the guys, the one at the back side of the boat will hopefully have a molotov to throw when I have the time:

iansmithartist

Its coming along, do you have any shadow casting lights in your scene? The characters don't feel very grounded. Subtle use of SSAO post-process might help with that too.

Your tornado/whirlwind is ace, when you see it animated its quite dramatic.

EmAr

Thanks a lot for the comment and the SSAO suggestion Ian. I don't have shadows yet because I have yet to create the shadowmap UV's for most of the assets. I have a pretty large to-do list considering the time left

EmAr

woo, shadowmap UVs done, dragon freeze beam done, flare shot at dragon done The shipwreck and the dragon are the only remaining assets. Then it will be parameter tweaking time!

EmAr

Finally displacement is working properly with the wyvern, woo!

EmAr

Well, only some minor additions and adjustments are left



I also made a custom logo:

GARYOSAVAN

Nice...

EmAr

Thanks GARYOSAVAN I guess it's OK to post final images here as well:










Thanks again for all the C&C