Cartoony NPR environments

petemc

Hey!

I've been messing about in Max doing some NPR look development. Everything here is pretty much procedural, including the textures. Each "berg" is about 2k polys, with a 1024x1024 normal map. I'm gonna bake down the textures and see can I get something similar going in real-time.


There are some more images here:
http://petemcnally.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/look-again/

Pete

petemc

Another:

petemc

Thanks for the kind words man! Yep, all done with modifiers, twist, FFD etc. I used modifier displacement based on a procedural gradient. I'm preparing a blog post with more detail which I'll finish and post as soon as time allows!

petemc

Another!

AlexCatMasterSupreme

I have no idea what these are but I like them.

ambershee

To be honest, it looks largely untextured (save for normals). The icey stuff looks great, the newest one suffers a bit for it as it lacks any real diffuse / specularity or clear normals that'd make it appear as a rock formation or whatever, and a a result it's confusing to read.

Love the colour palettes. Might have to nick some inspiration from those.

kodde

Looks cool. Keep going

petemc

@AlexCatMasterSupreme - Me neither, but I'm having fun!

@ambershee - Not far off, multiple scene render passes but only two baked textures to speak of in that last one, both procedurally generated too. Glad the colours inspire you, that's what sharing is all about

@kodde - Thanks man, I have a few more up my sleeve

petemc

Something slightly less stylised this time

Envart

Very cool!

Shanthosa

I'm not sure what this has to do with National Public Radio, but I am sure that they will love them.

Seriously though, badass work.

petemc

Shanthosa wrote: »

I'm not sure what this has to do with National Public Radio, but I am sure that they will love them.

LOL, nice one! Thanks for the kindness guys!

KennyTies

The colors in these are awesome. What is this rendered in?

AlexKola

This is awesome!

petemc

@AlexKola thank you!

@KennyTies It's rendered in Mental Ray in 3DSMax in passes, then composited and colour graded in Photoshop

leslievdb

looking great , loving the color pallets

especially like this one

petemc wrote: »

Another:

petemc

Thanks, yeah this is all about playing with colour

Fingus

These are really cool! Love it.

But what does NPR stand for?

Kbrom12

Fingus wrote: »

These are really cool! Love it.

But what does NPR stand for?

I believe it stands for non photo realistic?



Love this style, not exactly sure what it even is but I like it

petemc

Non-photorealistic is right! Another experiment in colour and lighting:

Holland

Wow really interesting dude! Looks like alien grass

J0NNYquid

I'm loving this look, and I agree with @Holland, this looks totally alien, which is a very good thing. The colors are just.....wow, very impressive.

KarlWrang

Yeah, really refreshing stuff!

TheGoozah

Pretty awesome! Keep them coming!

petemc

Thanks a million lads :thumbup:

Xoliul

Looks a bit like Matthew Lyons' stuff. I was always tempted to try and do something like that in 3D, it's even cooler you did it all procedural. Really curious to see your workflow for the rocks.

petemc

Thanks Xoliul, the images at that link are amazing - bookmarked! I'll be blogging about the workflow soon mate, nothing crazy in there. BTW I've used your shader in Max, incredible stuff.

petemc

Higher res here:
http://petemcnally.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/petemcnally_grass_blog.jpg

tottot

Whoa this thread is awesome, I am really really digging these results

petemc

Cool, thanks man!

Clark Coots

love these environments! great style and color

Snader

That last grass shot can't be realtime, can it? So many blades!

petemc

None of em' are real-time yet, that last one will be particularly tricky to reproduce

petemc

Yup, another!

Sparr

I love those!

ambershee

They're interesting, but it's getting much farther away from something that would realistically be used in real-time / games.

minorthreat

These are so awesome and whimsical! Shrooms anyone?

petemc

A tribute to Sword and Sworcery

DougClayton4231

Love the work!

petemc

Thanks Doug, I have a few more pieces on the way

lotet

I love this, this is really beautiful.

dissonance

Man, you have a really funky style going here, but I love it!

petemc

Thank you Dissonance and Lotet!

Chimi Jimi

you sir just blew my mind awesome stuff keep it up

petemc

Whoo! Thanks man!

petemc

petemc

Scene setup for image above

petemc

Quick 3D tribute to pixel art

petemc

I added a gallery to my blog, just to present the images uploaded in a tidier way without any of the accompanying waffle from me!

http://petemcnally.wordpress.com/about/gallery/

petemc

A few more quickies done with greeble

petemc