Snefer makes one hour environments

Snefer · Dec 2014

So I am doing a bit of practise lately and throwing together quick one-hour shots of environments, mostly as practise. I have tons of ideas I know I will never build anyway, so I'm just quickly building things to see how it goes. Interesting workflow-experiment. Sofar I hve not used any kitbashing whatsoever, just built what I needed. Two of them were on my livestream so I'll post youtube links to those when they are up. This is the first three that I made:

updating with new ones:

JamieRIOT · Dec 2014

One hour, with no kitbashing?!!....

.... I give up.

JamesMeader · Dec 2014

Looking good Snefer, could be faster I suppose.

djoexe · Dec 2014

Praise the Snefer !

Dan Powell · Dec 2014

An hour? That's incredible. These look awesome!

I'm looking forward to seeing the Livestream links posted up to YouTube so that I can see your workflow.

These results are amazing for an hour without any kitbashing.

foreverlost · Dec 2014

I excitedly await your videos. Certainly you at LEAST meant a week and not an hour?!

Even then...

RobeOmega · Dec 2014

If you gave me a whole year I could not make anything looking as good as these

Dan Powell · Dec 2014

Robeomega wrote: »

If you have me a whole year I could not make anything looking as good as these

+1

maeks mi cri everytiem

Thaiauxn · Dec 2014

Snefer doesn't just raise the bar on conceptual workflow, he takes it and throws it somewhere over there near the horizon for the rest of us to catch up to.

The livestream going up on youtube is awesome.

ZacD · Dec 2014

Rendered in Modo?

WarrenM · Dec 2014

MODO is life, life is MODO.

.polygon · Dec 2014

ONE HOUR?? waiting for those Youtube links...

Steppenwolf · Dec 2014

I can barely make a cube in one hour.

Makkon · Dec 2014

wwwhhhaaaa
Get these in an engine.

Auldbenkenobi · Dec 2014

An hour?! That's it, I'm packing up and doing something else with my life...

[HP] · Dec 2014

So goodio!

Mik2121 · Dec 2014

Great use of repeating shapes (otherwise making some of these would be impossible in 1 hour without kitbashing). The second piece is my favorite.

I'm also surprised at the quality of the materials in Modo.

Finalhart · Dec 2014

Portfolio pieces in 1 hour o.o

rollin · Dec 2014

What people here might not realize is that it's all about streamlining your process.
Cool stuff Snefer!

Snefer · Dec 2014

All rendered in Modo. The workflow is nothing special really, I'm just trying to trim down on things that give little bang for the buck in terms of time invested. Third scene for example, has alot of prop placement, so very little time to build things, so I went with alot of cubes and cloning, meshpainting, slapping some tiling texture on everything (same texture for all scenes, actually). Timesink was definately prop placement tools, need to work on that.

Second scene, round corridor, has alot of instancing, so there I invested time in detailing up some of the cloned areas so that the overall level of detail would rise very quickly, and then put minimal effort into the stuff that is not repeated. Pretty happy with the result, I should have put some more effort into defining some areas that are not clearly lacking, like the end door, and the round doorways.

First scene Im not happy with at all. Good example of where I lost focus a bit and spent the time on things I shouldnt have. But also a trickier scene to pull off without any design to reference, but then again, time well spent since I proved to myself that my initial idea didnt work out anyway, so only an hour lost there.

Snefer · Dec 2014

one video is up now:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-zd2T1wtO0"]One hour environment nr1 - YouTube[/ame]

JamieRIOT · Dec 2014

Need to learn me some Modo, looks so damn fast.

Snefer · Dec 2014

and now second one aswell:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUugddzaafQ"]One hour environment nr2 - YouTube[/ame]

Fozwroth · Dec 2014

Working booleans? I call sorcery!

Looks great man! Really puts me in the spirit to give Modo another shot

Dethling · Dec 2014

That's really awesome, especially with only one hour.

I think you have a good understanding of your tools and a clear vision of your scene, which is the basic of doing such great work within this short time.

LaurentiuN · Dec 2014

Great stuff man, i see that you do a lot of booleans, how do you chamfer the edges after boolean? For RTT ...i see that when you render the scene looks smooth...

KustomZero · Dec 2014

Boah incredible man and thanks for sharing the creation process. Lot to learn from these

Snefer · Dec 2014

Render smooth edges in modo, its like black magic but you dont have to sacrifice anything to the devil. Its awesome : )

Alfred1992 · Dec 2014

hnggg modo looks so nice to use

Snefer · Dec 2014

Another one!
stream here: http://www.twitch.tv/torfrick/b/597133374

Jeff Parrott · Dec 2014

So dope to see. Really good stuff.

But I mean come on. These are over an hour. By like 12 and 13 minutes. FAIL.

Seriously keep doing these.

ZacD · Dec 2014

These would be perfect to give to a concept artist, and the blockouts could also be used to start modeling while the concept is being worked on. I wonder if this workflow could work well in a studio environment.

narticus · Dec 2014

Haven't had a chance to watch a vid yet, but are these all unwrapped and baked to low poly as well, within an hour?

[HP] · Dec 2014

narticus wrote: »

Haven't had a chance to watch a vid yet, but are these all unwrapped and baked to low poly as well, within an hour?

No, it's using a procedural shader.

IronWall · Dec 2014

one day I would love you to show us how you set up you material in modo.

Chronicle · Dec 2014

I'm curious, do ngons and such not matter when doing this? My professors always tried to stress the importance of keeping everything to quads or tris. Is there a reason that using booleans without retoppologizing is alright here?

ZacD · Dec 2014

Tris and n-gons are fine to use, but I would agree avoiding them when you start learning how to model does help make things simpler. Obviously it's safe to use them in flat areas where they aren't going to cause any smoothing errors, and there's actually some situations when subdiv modeling when ngons give better smoothing results with less work than working in all quads/tris.

Snefer · Dec 2014

Jeff Parrot: haha yeah its hard to stop at exactly one hour

But i will definately keep doing them, they are really good lessons for me, patterns are emerging

ZacD: yes it would, I have used this approach before on several occasions, one of the reasons I want to learn how to do it faster, better, and to take it further myself, since im handicapped when it comes to concept art

Ironwall, i did that in the stream yesterday, extremely simple materials though

WilliamVaughan · Dec 2014

really impressive work. Thanks for sharing!

GeoCat · Dec 2014

Snefer wrote: »

All rendered in Modo. The workflow is nothing special really, I'm just trying to trim down on things that give little bang for the buck in terms of time invested. Third scene for example, has alot of prop placement, so very little time to build things, so I went with alot of cubes and cloning, meshpainting, slapping some tiling texture on everything (same texture for all scenes, actually). Timesink was definately prop placement tools, need to work on that.

Second scene, round corridor, has alot of instancing, so there I invested time in detailing up some of the cloned areas so that the overall level of detail would rise very quickly, and then put minimal effort into the stuff that is not repeated. Pretty happy with the result, I should have put some more effort into defining some areas that are not clearly lacking, like the end door, and the round doorways.

First scene Im not happy with at all. Good example of where I lost focus a bit and spent the time on things I shouldnt have. But also a trickier scene to pull off without any design to reference, but then again, time well spent since I proved to myself that my initial idea didnt work out anyway, so only an hour lost there.

Hello Snefer. I'm a a fan. And these are great!

But isn't the process your using essentially kit bashing, using replicators, reusing shapes, etc, with the only difference being that your creating some fairly detailed stuff on the fly?

Snefer · Dec 2014

Not kitbashing no, since I don't reuse any content. The scenes are fairly modular though

or atleast some of them

wccrawford · Dec 2014

Definitely impressive work. One of my goals is to eventually come up with quick scenes like these.

You've talked a little about getting the "most bang for the buck"... Any chance you might list out some things that you find really work well to that end? Or how you decide what to spend time on during these?

Poseidon8734 · Dec 2014

Steppenwolf wrote: »

I can barely make a cube in one hour.

Lol Ikr. This would take me days

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NegevPro · Dec 2014

This seems like a great exercise to practice speed, I'll have to try doing something like this myself when I get some free time.

Thanks for sharing the videos!

Marshkin · Dec 2014

Thanks for sharing the vidoes! I love the idea of this challenge as a way of getting comfortable just putting stuff down fast and not getting bogged down in detailing, when you're still working out concepts. It was near seeing some of the shortcuts you used and where you saved time.

GrungyStudios · Dec 2014

those environments would take me weeks plus a lot of cans of redbulls

MagicSugar · Dec 2014

Congrats man. Modo's Brad Peebler gave you massive props in his latest podcast. :thumbup:

PyrZern · Dec 2014

That fking yet amazing Instancing Thingy Thing. That was pure magic !!

Tepcio · Dec 2014

Thanks for doing this, it's really inspiring. I'd love to see more speed vegetation!

Snefer · Dec 2014

wccrawford: well it depends on the environment. For example the scifi corridors with lots of repeating element, I invest more times in the elements that repeat themselves the most often, since that will quickly raise the detaillevel of the entire scene. For scenes like the abandoned hatstore it was more important to create really basic meshes and focus on prop placement : ) Then of course afterwards you find that some areas are really lacking in visuals while others have detail you wont see, and thats a good lesson for next time

Tepcio: Well, I suck at vegetation so I dont know if that is something you would like to see!

Here is a new one from todays stream, took about 1h 15 minutes today because derp and I wanted to invest a little bit more time in it.

Stirls · Dec 2014

Reminds me a lot of Wolfenstein: TNO. What's your workflow like?

Snefer makes one hour environments

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