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Microneezia

Hello There! I wish to enter this competition, I choose Concept 22 - Olympus!



Back story otw.

officially crits are always welcome for the rest of this thread.

here are my blocked out images...

Microneezia

Hello again, some updates

I realize that I have some cage work to complete as some geometry was not captured from teh hi-poly, I was just going through to color and see if I can make this 650 tri's work. I then went back and simply turbo-smoothed the 650polys to about 3500. But there appeared to be no difference in capturing the hipoly geometry. I know we have lots of geometry budget.

Crits and comments would help a lot. I'm not that happy with the low poly, but I do like the Hi-poly enough. any suggestions>?

Zbrush Hi_Poly 2.4m tris



Front Rendered Low Poly - 650 tris (Lightmap and Normal)



Angle the model will be seen from Low Poly - 650 tris (Lightmap and Normal)



Very quick Color Pass 2mins - Low Poly render (Diffuse Lightmap and Normal)

Microneezia

more work on this. Rocks are fools gold!

Microneezia

Hmm, more work, .... to throw away.

Microneezia

Just trying to figure out my final shots. We have 2 final shots I guess so this is kinda what im thinking...

Final Shot 1



Final Shot 2



hmm.

jjnaas

I skateched some very rough ideas, trying to get my head around to the good and evil aspect. Here's what I have so far. The idea would be that the archipelago of floating islands would transform to resemble a dried and cracked desert floor. But.. consider these as just throwing around ideas.

Microneezia

Hey there jjnaas these are great. You have a really good flow to the floating islands, mine kind of just look like floating satellites. Thanks for your work.

I think I have to completely remove my current floating island work though.
I just realized that the scale and proportion is completely wrong, those stumps become the size of like 40 stories or something. anyway Im learning a lot. so back to the begining.

Here are some things I think I want visually.

I think we need a solid focus point which will be a church-like structure I think. But I want it to be like an open area. No bounding walls, so we can see inside.

Floating islands cascading all around like you have. Thats great! Some kind of sci-fi framework of beams and cables connecting them with the electric power of heaven!

A bridge leading to the main island like I have brutally blocked out in my concepts.

These items will tie us to the concept as we must remember to stay on target with.

other than that, I am happy with whatever shows up, I am excited to see what else comes out!

Microneezia

Microneezia

More updates... still blocking it out but getting some final geometry in there now...