WIP Piano Centerpiece

AlanSMitchell

Concept: By Alexander Thümler " miNze "



I have the scene blocked out and I'm just building it piece by piece.
Grand Piano High Poly



C&C welcome.

BARDLER

Are you modeling that piano entirely in zbrush

AlanSMitchell

@Barnder nah. I just hate max renders I also like the normal map materials that Z Brush uses. I'm going to do a normals bake for the interior of the piano.

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Small Update



Now With Foot Pedals!

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High Poly Chair

Working on dents and things for the piano in the mean time. Hopefully more to come.

silkroadgame

Models are good and clean.

WadeWT

What's with the massive buttons on the chair?

That piano looks awesome, though. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

oxblood

i agree with wadewt the buttons need to be wayyy smaller

AlanSMitchell

Haha yeah I didn't even notice until @WageWT said something.
They are smaller maybe not the size of the concept but I also didn't want to have to resculpt since this is so far in the background.

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Quickly knocking out a high poly table today


Finally had a reason to use my welding brush ^^;
http://alanmitchellart.blogspot.com/2013/03/welding-bead-brush.html DL here if you want I don't think I took it out of my dropbox yet.

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a Stool

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Planks of Wood

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Non Destroyed

Hole in Wall

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Low Poly is almost finished.

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Relearning Ddo
It's been a long time since I have messed around with it. still WIP.

Mathis

Very nice and clean model. Like it, keep it going. Even so seeing the texture would be great.

AlanSMitchell

@Mathis good thinking I'm also thinking a lerp inside UDK to get the material to look like varnish.

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Texture update

neilberard

Looks nice.

AlanSMitchell

@neilberard Thanks man you got some pretty fantastic stuff yourself I'm flattered you like it. ^^
texturing

DWalker

As a minor point, boards are usually nailed over windows; it's quicker and easier and leaves smaller holes. As an extra bonus, you could have fun modelling hammer misses or bent nails.

AlanSMitchell

Ooo Good Idea! yeah I was told many times by a couple of friends that is should be nails. XP I forget. I'll get on that thanks man.

AlanSMitchell

fitting art around a life can be a bit tricky so I say get it in where you can.
Not a big update just enough for today.

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Updated chair cause it was bugging me

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small update

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UDK is being a bit buggy on me so I'm giving Cry Engine a shot
I gotta say the learning curve is there but I'm getting there.

Heather_Bea

I am a bit new to this, but I think all that you have made so far is quite lovely. I look forward to seeing more work!

AlanSMitchell

@Heather_Bea Thx I'm doing what I can to wrap this up.

well I'm not quite sure how to change the ambient color of the scene inside of the cry engine.
I haven't looked for it specifically. I'm also trying to learn the camera set up.
Crits are very welcome.
PS. I see some of the placement problems.

DougClayton4231

Everything looks good, but the scene lacks life right now, maybe some more dramatic lighting or a more vibrance in the colors will help to make the scene more dynamic.

AlanSMitchell

@DougClayton4231 Thanks for the crit I completely agree
Hope this is better ^^;

Keresh

How did you sculpt these awesome looking planks? They look amazing @[email protected]

AlanSMitchell

Just thought I'd take some fancy renders with DoF

gartht3d

love the piano. CE lighting setup needs a bit of love. maybe try wood floorboards? Your wood sculpting is great, be good to see some tiled wood floorboard materails on the floors.
Im just about to start a similar kind of scene, with a piano, where'd you find your reference images?

AlanSMitchell

@gartht3d: thanks man I'll diffidently need to think on the wood floorboards. On the one hand I've been doing my best to match the concept on the other hand wood floorboards sound sick.

and as for images of piano, mine is a grand piano so I nabbed a top view + google
Funny story I was livestreaming on my twich account while I was making this and this guy came in and started chatting me up. Anyways he knew all sorts of stuff about pianos and how they are constructed. I'd build something then check with him constantly. It was truly a thing of beauty. He also linked me to this http://relativekeys.blogspot.com/2011/09/technical-tuesday-piano-lid-props.html The guy was super cool and I'm glad that he put up with me.

DougClayton4231

Really like the update and I like the idea of the wood floorboards :P

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Pianos Now With Strings.
I'm gonna keep the floorboards idea on the back burner for now.

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@Keresh: sorry I didn't respond earlier I didn't notice till just now. Personally >___>; it's photo sourced and drag and drop from an alfa.

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vertex painting in Cry is kind of a pain.

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Think this is it people thanks for all of the replies and maybe floorboards later on just not atm.

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R00

This is looking great Alan! I only have one problem with it right now. There doesn't appear to be any shadows being cast on your models? I'd also consider upping the SSAO so you get some 'natural' dark areas where the geometry meets.

Keep up the good work

genwu

Wow man, these renders turned out great - especially for just starting with CE3. Nice! & very inspirational! Were those light shafts done in post with Photoshop? That's what it looks like to me, just wondering.

AlanSMitchell

@polychrunch I'm silly your right.

@genwu the light shafts are actual geometry I tried to match the shape made from the planks of wood and the window.

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I'm just too happy

I made the news on Crydev.net !!!