Wip - 101 Dalmations

Prose_One

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Please help me fix this scene - see last post(#16)

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Hey everyone!,

Edit : Just realized I don't know how to spell dalmatians.... (silly title!)

I'll start off with a quick intro; I'm a student interested in environment and prop modeling. I came across a beautiful demo reel by Leticia Reinaldo. (check out http://www.leticiareinaldo.com/ if you want to see it) She Modeled Roger from 101 Dalmatians. Instantly I fell in love with it, and wanted to do the same. So I started the rest of the room.

Critiques, Advice, Tips, Tricks, etc. all appreciated!

First, I grabbed a bunch of reference:











Then I grey blocked in the rough scene



And then set to work modeling






Again, Critiques, Advice, Tips, Tricks, etc. all appreciated!

Odow

Oh this is pretty =w= Are you going to gave it a painterly style like disney or are you going to do it super realistic ?

Prose_One

Thanks I love the movie, so hopefully I can do it justice.

I plan on hand painting the textures. Something similar to the Meet Buck short. I love the strong confident brush strokes.





Also, on top of critiques etc. other style suggestions would be great.

Prose_One

Just a little update:
I moved onto the firepoker set

jhoythottle

Fun fact, there were a lot of Disney employees who were layed-off when this film was being developed and the studio was saved by the magic/cheapness of xerox. The original sketches were never cleaned-up and instead scanned right in and painted over. This eliminated the need for the usually ink artists.

It would be cool if you could find a way to overlay your models with some form of alpha layer to give it that "sketchy" look. Just a thought, cool idea for a project by the way!

Prose_One

^And I ended up watching the Youtube documentary about it, quite interesting actually! I'm sure 2d animators would love it!

A few quick updates:
I started working on the Mantel

jhoythottle

Yes, it's a very interesting backstory. I'm excited to watch this project progress. Great work so far!

Prose_One

Thanks Jhoythottle, I'm loving it - sadly, schoolwork is slowing me down a little.

I'm having a lot of trouble with the shirt on the chair. I'm using Ncloth to drop it, but I cant get it to look right. I think partially the way it's drawn in movie makes the dimensions a little impossible, but even getting it to where it is now has taken me many many many tries. If anyone has advice I would love it!

Anyways, update images

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jhoythottle

How are you with zbrush? I would recommend sculpting that bad boy.

Prose_One

Weak, to be honest. I'm comfortable navigating the program and tools, but I feel like my sculpting skills and precision need improvement. I think I'll take the chair, top pillow and a blocked out shirt into Zbrush and see if I can get something that looks halfway decent.

Plus that chair looks like it could use a face lift, maybe some wrinkles/bunching of the fabric etc.

lilymac

Yesss!! It looks so lived in and cool already. : ) Can't wait to see the textures!!

GrungyStudios

Cool little props you have, coming together well

codyaq2

This gona be good

Prose_One

Thanks you to everyone for the encouragement and advice!
I'm still struggling (actually somewhat avoiding) that damn shirt.... but here are a few more updated shots.

New reference for all you lovely polycounters:


And new stuff:

pixelpatron

It's a bit hard to see all your hard work. It looks like maya....


I suggest watching this vid and getting some new renders of this stuff.

Prose_One

thanks for the advice Pixelpatron! that video was great!



I would love some help, if anyone knows the solution. I'm having an issue with this scene (sorry if this is an easy fix, and I'm not seeing the obvious reason for it) Anyways, if you look closly at the wall on the right, the picture frame on the right wall as well as the pipes and the bookcase hidden behind the lamp, there are bright pixels (fireflys?? and despite jacking up render settings I cant get them to go away. I've been able to narrow it down to some issue between the lamp light, the 2sided material on the lamp and or the material on the walls? any help in debunking this would be amazing!!!