ESCAPE - Sushi Run - Team Tempura
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Final Beauty Shots
We’re a little late to the party, so we’ll just get right to it!
Initial Concepts
Scene Paintover
We are taking a lot of inspiration from the likes of Kung Fu Panda, Cloudy the Chance of Meatballs, etc. I’m floating between visual styles at the moment and attempting to define the over composition but hopefully between these concepts you’ll have an understanding of the direction we are heading!
Once things are locked down I'll look to sort out a bit more of a scene description/spec but our main goal is to create a fun and colourful environment.
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Extremely WIP
Spent much of this week blocking in the environment with basic assets and getting a feel for the scene. Still plenty of assets to rough out before moving on.
Scrawld Has been working on the buildings and foliage, while I've been making the mountain, tower, etc.
Some concerns I have at the moment are keeping to a unified colour scheme that matches the original concepts & creating the composition clean and dynamic, with out being too cluttered.
Great work, I am keen to see more.
Currently blocking in the basic, but here's a breakdown for some of the assets. The meshes and textures are place holder and will be worked up to finish once everything is place.
(i want to see this for a sushi bar now, fleeing sushi instead of riding boats, mats or whatever.)
@throttlekitty Agree about the colours. Its something we are very aware of. We want to keep it colourful, but also keep a consistent colour pallet and draw the eye to the right places. Once the textures are on the model and in the scene they seem to become desaturated (As you can probably tell in the pics below). Partly due to the fog, but once everything is lit properly it will bring everything together.
This took a lot longer than expected but here is the sushi tower building block. I'm thinking of maybe building on to it with smaller bits to add detail but right now there are plenty of other things that need doing!
Enjoy.
The sushi tower in-situ [please ignore the broken textures on the falling sushi and general WIP stuff.]
Thanks for lookin'.
Anyway, bake some lighting and crank up some vibrance, otherwise it's looking really great(and making me really hungry)
Cheers
@d1ver We're certainly missing some vibrancy. Once we've got everything in place that's something we'll start working on. A pass on the lighting would also help with that to hopefully.
@Jessica Dinh Glad you're enjoying it. It's a good point. I think readability overall needs work.
@royalshark Thanks, I'm glad you like it
Here's an update of the scene so far. The buildings have been updated, added in some new archways and the new sushi men are in too. The cliffs are currently WIP as I type. Still lots of things to do so its full steam ahead!
Cliffs are in, swapped out the steps, new buildings, some lighting and post effects, its been a busy week!
This my first real go at lighting a scene in UDK. We've not baked any light maps yet, we are still working to get the UVS set up for that. (Lesson learnt: Do your uvs for light maps as you go.) Its also my first foray into post processing effects, trying to strike right balance and not go OTT so any and all criticism welcome.
I've also added in some grass and flowers too.
So close now!
Been working on the second view. Made a change to the layout, lighting, etc. Still a few more tweaks I want to make.
Could really do with some peoples opinions on how the image looks on their monitor? At home its looks pretty consistent, but on my works machine (which is colour calibrated) its considerably darker and really high contrast.
Whats peoples opinions? Is it too dark? Could it be brighter? Too much contrast?
Just one thing about the trees.
Try to edit the face normals of leaves. I can see some faces are dark.
U can find some good tips in Wiki pages.
I'd trust the calibrated monitor probably. It's not too dark on my monitor(which is not calibrated either). I'd probably try toning down the contrast at the areas which contain whites though.
Maybe there's something you can do with the pink sushi running in the foreground. I feel like it should be the main point of interest in your picture, but since he is pink on a pink background, it's not the first thing we see when we look at you picture.
You could try maybe to play with contrast between the character and the sky, or maybe try to shift the color of the sushi.
I tried to do a paintover but I must admit it's not really perfect either
@Ehsan Gamer Thanks, A good point. They do look a bit funky in places. I tried today to tweak the normal faces but not with much success. As it's so close to the deadline I didn't want to get hung up on it so decided to cheat a little. I tweaked the material instead and add a slight emissive to lessen the effect. At last its something I'll be aware of next time around.
@EmAr That was our hunch. The lightings been a tricky thing to nail. Hopefully we'll end up with something that will work well. Ian's been the one who has been tackling it, so he'll have an update soon with how it turned out.
@Guedin Thanks for the great feedback! You were right, the sushi guy was getting lost again. A whole bunch of tweaks have been made that should put him back in focus. Again, Ian will have more of an update on how its all going.
As the archway had become more of a focus point in the second beauty shot I decided to revisit it and show it some love. I ended up more or less redoing it. The biggest change was giving the top more detail and a more defined wood texture. Hopefully it holds up a little better in the close up.
Spent today tweaking and refining, which I feel I could keep doing forever, but we are calling it done, finished, finito.
Here are our submission images. Now someone pour us that pint!
Congratulations to all those that took part and submitted entries. It was a lot of fun; I'm looking forward to the next one
Everything looks beautiful
Also concept reminds me of Day Of Tentacle and that is awesome, great game
Best of luck!
@shabba Thanks man, we were really worried that our colours weren't gonna tie together, but I think once we started the lighting things started to click.
@lilth D1ver also mentioned Day of the Tentacle, we'll take that compliment any day
Thanks for the kind words, its been a lot of fun working on this stuff alongside so many great entries.