Sketchbook: Zaki Saati

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Hello everyone, this is my first post in this community.

In this series of posts, I am hoping to document a personal project entitled "Gallerie Nocturne".

The idea was floating in my mind for many years, I am glad to finally have the time and energy to start this project.

To begin, here is the concept art of the exterior made in Photoshop, using a mix of images from the internet and brushwork.



The full view of the street. I added a background industrial landscape to illustrate the scale.
Not sure how my computer is handling a file this big in Photoshop, but so far it is.


I exported separate layers like this one to have better visibility in Maya when modeling.


Here are some of the initial pencil sketches to brainstorm the idea.


And a sculpt of the cat mascot.


I plan to use Unreal Engine 5 for the final renders. Ideally the entrance door would be openable and should lead us to the interior of the gallery. I might use some of my own oil paintings for the artwork inside the gallery.

The next step is to do a low-poly 3D blockout of the whole exterior scene in Maya, which is my favorite part to do. The blockout of the exterior building will give me the proportions and size constraints for the interior.

Additionally, an imposed challenge of this project would be to use 0% Ai imagery. Limiting myself to photo reference, pencil drawing and concept art. To learn and grow along the way.

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Starting the modeling process. Created a base mesh for the bird, which will later be sculpted and decimated.

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Some more progress on the blockout/modeling stage. I do the UVing where I can as the blockout progresses into the modeling phase.
I extracted the logo from an alpha using Zbrush-Photoshop. These will be later re-topologized and unwrapped. It will be hell (or not).

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Finalizing the model of the logo and neon signs (that took a bit of time..). Used a bit of mash for the scatter effect. Here are some tests in Vray. Don't mind the ugly metallic support behind the logo, all temporary placeholders. I used a ramp node in the neon shader.

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Some progress on the retopology and lookdev. Dropped a default metal material in Substance Painter to test out some things. 

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Finalized the ornament and texturing

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Baking and texturing little birdie.. I used ZRemesher and UvMaster in Zbrush for the unwrap. Fixed some of the bad non-manifold geometry in Maya later on.

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Progress on the door. I also added some red curtains and a bit of a twin peaks vibe on the floor.. A tribute to David Lynch you could say.
The cloth simulation was done in Marvelous Designer, adjusted and refined in Maya. And simulated again in Marvelous.

iam717

I appreciate the door glass, it looks neat though.

I have to get used to the "script like", name logo of the building otherwise this is turning out alright.

This is cute interesting and i'd like to see more when you got it.

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iam717 said:

I appreciate the door glass, it looks neat though.

I have to get used to the "script like", name logo of the building otherwise this is turning out alright.

This is cute interesting and i'd like to see more when you got it.

Appreciate the feedback

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Some work on the wall and bricks material. I intend to mix them with vertex painting on the walls, etc.

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Using vertex paint and a blend material for the brick wall.



The tree is work in progress for now. Going to replace the smallest branches and  leaves with 2d planes or Fronds.

Assembling the scene in USD in Maya. Much better than using the standard referencing or import...

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Some more progress. Today I worked on the ass-phalt material in substance designer. 
Then added water in the cracks...

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Adding some foreground elements in photoshop to test out an idea.

Илья

ashstorm91 said:

Using vertex paint and a blend material for the brick wall.



The tree is work in progress for now. Going to replace the smallest branches and  leaves with 2d planes or Fronds.

Assembling the scene in USD in Maya. Much better than using the standard referencing or import...

Круто

Илья

Илья said:

ashstorm91 said:

Using vertex paint and a blend material for the brick wall.



The tree is work in progress for now. Going to replace the smallest branches and  leaves with 2d planes or Fronds.

Assembling the scene in USD in Maya. Much better than using the standard referencing or import...

Круто

Илья said:

ashstorm91 said:

Using vertex paint and a blend material for the brick wall.



The tree is work in progress for now. Going to replace the smallest branches and  leaves with 2d planes or Fronds.

Assembling the scene in USD in Maya. Much better than using the standard referencing or import...

It so look for very nice!

ashstorm91

Илья said:

Илья said:

ashstorm91 said:

Using vertex paint and a blend material for the brick wall.



The tree is work in progress for now. Going to replace the smallest branches and  leaves with 2d planes or Fronds.

Assembling the scene in USD in Maya. Much better than using the standard referencing or import...

Круто

Илья said:

ashstorm91 said:

Using vertex paint and a blend material for the brick wall.



The tree is work in progress for now. Going to replace the smallest branches and  leaves with 2d planes or Fronds.

Assembling the scene in USD in Maya. Much better than using the standard referencing or import...

It so look for very nice!

Thank you!

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Building the composition based on the sketch. I used one of the rigs and character models I have made for a "notsoshort-film" I am working on. He's got more of an oriental vibe, but it will do. He's mostly going to be a silhouette here.
I blocked out the street lamps, sofa, table and firepit. Usd is now referencing the blocked out model which will be easily updated in the scene later.

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Adding some foreground elements in photoshop to test out an idea.