Blizzard Inspired Cinematic
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Update:
After having to take a break from this project I am getting back to work on it. Here are some BPR renders from Zbrush of the current progress on the models. Did another pass on the wizard's face and made some stand in hair to make sure everything looked right. Zbrushing on the Demon is coming along.
Hey everyone. Haven't made a WIP thread in a while but I have gotten together with a couple friends and we started working on a project we plan to get done before Blizzcon. It is a moving still cinematic similar to the injustice trailer that Blur made not to long ago. I will be creating the two characters in the shot, a female wizard and a demon. It will take place and draw from Blizzard's Diablo IP. More details to come later, for now I just have some characters to show.
This is the diablo Wizard concept by Josh Tallman that we will be following. Below that is the base mesh I modeled in Maya that will be taken into Zbrush, and following that is the demon that is an original design influenced by Blizzard's style.
After having to take a break from this project I am getting back to work on it. Here are some BPR renders from Zbrush of the current progress on the models. Did another pass on the wizard's face and made some stand in hair to make sure everything looked right. Zbrushing on the Demon is coming along.
Hey everyone. Haven't made a WIP thread in a while but I have gotten together with a couple friends and we started working on a project we plan to get done before Blizzcon. It is a moving still cinematic similar to the injustice trailer that Blur made not to long ago. I will be creating the two characters in the shot, a female wizard and a demon. It will take place and draw from Blizzard's Diablo IP. More details to come later, for now I just have some characters to show.
This is the diablo Wizard concept by Josh Tallman that we will be following. Below that is the base mesh I modeled in Maya that will be taken into Zbrush, and following that is the demon that is an original design influenced by Blizzard's style.
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haha me too. The head is missing ... what a tease :poly136:
What rendering engine will you be using?
Yeah I am putting off the face till the last minute because it will be the hardest thing to do. haha
We will be trying out Arnold. Heard some good things so we will see.
slamming this into my inspiration folder right away
Looking pretty cool! Didn't realize this was your thread.. i think i'll follow now
Hey, glad you like it so far, I will do my best to not let that follow go to waste. *rolls sleeves up*
Got a small update for today, just the armor around the arm. The next update will have her whole upper body put together.......except her face. =P
Ill be watching this thread VERY closely. Keep up the amazing work!
Yeah had to go a round about way to get it done, took longer then I would have liked. But I ended up animating a single seam around a motion path and then through a little trial and error taking an animation snapshot which basically just duplicates it around the path. Then combine. =P
Looking forward to see more
Loving the current progress hope to see more !
I'm Turret's roommate and will be doing the Matte Painting/Lighting/Rendering/and Comp for this project. Thought I'd post some images to show more or less where we're going with the project. The environment geo, as it stands, is more to test my projections and make sure the parallax is what it should be. Since the distance and scale are so immense a lot of the BG Geo is going to stay close to what it is now, with more sculpted and detailed environments for the closer stuff. None of the images show final poses or final framing, just wanted you to see the pose more or less and get a sense of the scale in the scene. Enjoy!
not much to say other than you're both doing an incredible job so far and I'll be sure to keep watching
How did i miss this thread i don't even... subbing!
Really looking forward to see where you take this
Hey Ayoub! I'm working on the Matte Painting as we speak! A little further up in the thread I posted the starting geo for the scene and what essentially all the landmasses are going to look like. I should have an update on the first mountain range later today or tomorrow.
thanks
Hey, no problem I'll try and break it down. They're 2D paintings, but they're projected onto 3D Geo for parallax. Since everything is so far away from the Animation Cam, and there's no lighting changes, we can get away with using a DMP. The challenge is to have enough projections to cover what we're going to see in the final shots, and to break the paintings up well enough so that everything parallaxes correctly. Again given the distance, we're dealing with what equates to a nodal pan so there's little to no parallax, but some shots call for it, so I'm covering my bases. The cliff that's directly behind the actors, and some of that closer geo, I'll go the "long route" with, and sculpt, texture, and render, since the spec and reflections are very important with those. Everything else we can "fake." I've included some pictures that may help illustrate the point.
This is a rough shot of the cameras in the scene. It looks like an insane amount of projections, but really there are only a couple of principal projections and the rest are patch projections to fix things like keystoning.
This is a shot of the entire scene, and you can see the end-gate of the projection cameras. There's pretty much a solid coverage in any given direction, which is what we need.
And this is an image of the node setup in Nuke for the parallax test. Essentially, the Images are feeding into projection nodes, and they're projecting on to the designated geo from the designated camera.
Hope this helped some. I know DMP's aren't seen too often on Polycount and the concept can be a bit confusing.
can't wait to see some progress
good luck guys
ayoub44 - Check out if you can a bit of behind the scenes on Blizzard cinematics, they use a lot of matte paintings in their cinematics. Great use of parallax, fx and subtle animation make those matte paintings blend with the 3d in the foreground.