Howl's Moving Castle: Living Room - Dallas McAtasney

Karasu · Nov 2013

This is my WIP Howl's Moving Castle living room, I decided to do it since it has a huge range of possible textures.

Moodboard:

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AO Render from the angle I'll be taking the shot from:

AO Render 2:

I'll be correcting the height of the small statues, the face on the disk will be a normal map created by a surface transfer of a high res ZBrush sculpt (will be uploading progress in the next few days).

Boyo · Nov 2013

nice idea! I'm curious to see where it goes!! Do you know what kind of render style you want?

on the first shot the table seems too big imo.

Karasu · Nov 2013

Thanks! I'm going for a painted but realistic texture style with a lot of the details being normal maps. I'm making it with the intent of putting it in UDK.

I see what you mean with the table, I'll correct it soon

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Karasu · Nov 2013

Boyo wrote: »

nice idea! I'm curious to see where it goes!! Do you know what kind of render style you want?

on the first shot the table seems too big imo.

Thanks! I'm going for a painted but realistic texture style with a lot of the details being normal maps. I'm making it with the intent of putting it in UDK.

I see what you mean with the table, I'll correct it soon

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Gmanx · Nov 2013

One of my fave movies. Can't wait to see how it looks with a painterly touch.

Karasu · Nov 2013

Here is my partially textured hard surface scene, the majority of it is hand painted using swatches gathered from the source material, the rest of the textures are placeholders (the metalwork inside the fireplace and the table). I'd say that I am around 70% done at the moment, I hid the un-textured models for this render. The floor and fireplace textures are going to be a tough to finish.

Griffin · Nov 2013

You can definitely push the hue variation more! notice how the stone/ceramic (plaster?) wall has whole strokes of red blue and yellow mixed in, giving it that painterly feel. same with the floor boards, play with green tinted spec maybe? just try to get more subtle color into the textures.
nice stuff though, I like the ref.

87roach · Nov 2013

Very much looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

I would love to do a scene myself one day of some Ghibli works.

Karasu · Dec 2013

Griffin wrote: »

You can definitely push the hue variation more! notice how the stone/ceramic (plaster?) wall has whole strokes of red blue and yellow mixed in, giving it that painterly feel. same with the floor boards, play with green tinted spec maybe? just try to get more subtle color into the textures.
nice stuff though, I like the ref.

Thanks, I'll crank up the saturation for sure. I'm having a bit of trouble getting all the tones and colours in the floorboards without effecting the lighting too much. I'll keep playing around with it though

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87roach wrote: »

Very much looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

I would love to do a scene myself one day of some Ghibli works.

Thanks

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It's really fun, I've been playing Ni no Kuni on the side whilst making this and it's really interesting to see how they made a Ghibli world 3D.

Karasu · Dec 2013

Just posting what I'll be handing in for my uni module, I wont use the word final because I'm still going to add to it for the months to come since it's something I've enjoyed making. Really dislike the cabinet on the left but I needed something to break up the space in that area.

Laktou · Dec 2013

This is an awesome concept to work on, man. I love that movie and that room, especially the vibrant colors and range of materials as you said. The only negative thing that catches my eye is the flatness of the pans on the left there. In the concept art, they seem to have more of an angle on the handle. But either way, they seem odd in their general flatness against the wall.

Keep up the awesome work!

Dimfist · Dec 2013

Love this movie. One of my favorite parts is the ember. It's looking really good right now but I feel like the copper might look a little too realistic a texture compared to the rest. Maybe if the brights were a bit more smudgy? I think it does need a little bit more color variation here and there to give it a more painterly feel as well. Just my two bits!

littleclaude · Jan 2014

Great choice of subject matter.

I would love to see you try a painterly texture to the scene. maybe start on the fireplace and try and match the paint strokes. The coldren in the film has a bit of bulged bottom and a sumptuous highlight.

I love the progress, reflection on the floor would be cool too.

duncan · Jan 2014

Cool idea. Just my two cents but if you de-saturate your textures by about 40% it looks much closer to the original.

good work so far, I am keen to see more.

CSOConnor · Jan 2014

Looks really great so far man, I agree with Duncan though it's a bit too saturated. I'd also recommend bumping up the spec map on the floor, and if you're able too, include the ashes that are piling up in the hearth.

Howl's Moving Castle: Living Room - Dallas McAtasney

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