Mecha Room (WIP)

Taylor Brown

Hey y'all! Been a while since I posted a project. I'm working on my final for the first term with Think Tank. The goal is to create one badass render using the techniques and software we have learned over the past few months. That being said, I am trying to get it as optimized as possible so it can be presented in Marmoset when I'm done. Anyways, I chose this piece by João Henrique Pachêco


I'm 1 week in with 4 weeks and a lot of work to go but I'm happy with it so far. This has been my first time working Medium Poly and I'm in love.

Taylor Brown

Finished up all my props and have begun UV'ing. If I can get all that done I'll have another week or so to work on the characters and then two weeks of texturing and lighting tweaks. woo!

Apocrs1980

Taylor Brown

Busy weekend! Finalized modeling on all my props. completely UV'd and grouped for texturing. I tried as hard as possible to maintain texel density across the whole scene... first time trying so i'm sure its not perfect.

Kainkun

Id love to see that in sketchfab

Taylor Brown

Kainkun said:

Id love to see that in sketchfab

ill try and make that happen!

Taylor Brown

@Kainkun here you go bud!

Kainkun

@Taylor Brown
that's awesome. Thanks there's so much detail. One thing I noticed is that the tip of the lava lamp looks smaller than the original picture. I'm not sure if you did that on purpose.

Taylor Brown

definitely not on purpose. i had some issues matching perspective... i think i will give it all one more pass to double check proper scale. thanks dude!

Taylor Brown

blocking out my textures

Taylor Brown

Taking things a bit further 

Edit.. cant seem to upload photos right now so here's a link to my blog - https://www.artstation.com/crawlspace/blog/8rAj/week-13-final-project-wip-update-2

perrivince

Cool! This looks awesome. I love this little scene.

Taylor Brown

perrivince said:

Cool! This looks awesome. I love this little scene.

Thank you, i appreciate it

Taylor Brown

holy crap this has been a long, exhausting, frustrating and ultimately very productive week. i have a couple minor texture / shaders issues to fix (fish bowl, cylinder gauges etc) and the lighting is pretty tricky to get correctly but i feel like i made some good progress tonight. i think the boy could also use a little reposing.


higher res pic - https://www.artstation.com/crawlspace/blog/Q979/week-14-final-project-wip-update-3

HAWK12HT

This is just brilliant!! love the details. All the best for final results, while at it do add some details to mech texture as its overpowering everything else.

Taylor Brown

HAWK12HT said:

This is just brilliant!! love the details. All the best for final results, while at it do add some details to mech texture as its overpowering everything else.

Do you think it just needs some variation in roughness on the plastic or something else? Maybe a slightly darker shade of green?

Ged

wow thats so cool! really like all the robot parts and the room, the characters arent quite as charming as the concept yet, in thier expression and pose particularly but youve done loads already! really good so far!

Taylor Brown

Ged said:

wow thats so cool! really like all the robot parts and the room, the characters arent quite as charming as the concept yet, in thier expression and pose particularly but youve done loads already! really good so far!

Yeah the characters are rough. I have almost no experience with doing organic sculpting and i was getting frustrated. I'm going to be doing a deep analysis of the scene and that will go on my list of improvements. Thank you!

Taylor Brown

Trying to incorporate as much feedback as possible:
Working further on the characters texturing and lighting. Submission is in a week so feedback is very appreciated!

jStins

Hey I like this piece a lot, great detail! It might be too late in the process, but I think the bevels on that mech could be a little bigger / softer to fit with the overall style of the concept. 

The other thing that stands out to me is that your scene reads a bit noisy compared to the concept. Take a close look at the values. The artist is using the high values of the floor, character faces and a few background elements (monitor, peg board) to frame the mech and create good flow through the composition of the concept. The mech is actually a darker in your scene than it is in the concept art. Try boosting the lightness and lowering the saturation of the green paint (do you have any cards above the scene to create reflections?). Everything outside the lit area of the concept are capped at about 50% brightness while the lit area has a wider range (15% - 85% approx.). 



A few other random thoughts... reducing / removing the high frequency detail in the floor and pegboard (maybe try cork board instead?) will help create areas of rest in the scene, which will make all those details more rewarding.

Nice work so far and good luck finishing the scene!

//edit: I should also mention that I used the render from Sept 3rd for the value comparison...

Taylor Brown

@jStins thank you, this is hugely valuable. It would have gone over my head without clear actionable points to focus on. I appreciate it!

Taylor Brown

Took another pass over the characters, the floor and adding a lot more wear and grime where appropriate. I feel like my materials are 90-95% there. My submission deadline is Sept 16th so I will begin focusing more on lighting and compositing in photoshop. Hopefully I can begin to incorporate more of what @jStins pointed out.

Higher res pic here - https://www.artstation.com/crawlspace/blog/4EvX/final-project-wip-update-4

Taylor Brown

I think I am done. Thank you to everyone who offered critique and feedback. I tried to incorporate most of it, perhaps my technical ability didn't do it justice at times.



Higher res version - https://www.artstation.com/crawlspace/blog/vzEy/final-project-wip-update-5

Throughout the week I might make small edits (probably only in Photoshop) and I'll get a full page up on my portfolio.

Thank you again Polycount community, y'all helped me make my best work yet.

jStins

Nice work man! The adjustments on the floor texture really help the focal point of the scene read well. 

Taylor Brown

jStins said:

Nice work man! The adjustments on the floor texture really help the focal point of the scene read well. 

Thank you @jStins , you really opened my eyes in that regard.

Taylor Brown

Alright y'all, final tweaks in and it's now up on my portfolio!

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8QleE

Kainkun

that lighting added so much. good job

Taylor Brown

thank you @Kainkun

chriszuko

What a cool friggin scene! 

Taylor Brown

@chriszuko thanks! When I saw the concept I just knew I had to make it

Taylor Brown

Holy crap, thanks for the front page! I'm honored 😁

polygons

Really well done

Taylor Brown

polygons said:

Really well done

Thank you @polygons