Making of "Sunrise of the 80's"

Mark Dygert

http://area.autodesk.com/learning/tutorials/details/4886/

Most of you might remember the amazingly nice piece MoP linked a few months ago, well the artist Marek Denko, posted a "making of" tutorial and it was a great read so I thought I would share.

The only downer is that you need to log into Autodesk's Area site to view it, but honestly its worth it.

IronHawk

I was just looking at this the other day. His site has other making of articles as well.

Marek Denko Online

Uly

Great read, thanks for the find you guys.

MoP

Very nice, cheers!

Ryno

Damn, that guy loves to model. I was flipping through some of his other tutorials, and some of the buildings in the far-off background have every roof shingle modeled. For that matter, every miniscule crack in every shingle is modeled.

Bump and normal maps are your friend. They'd also decrease his rendering times by 3000%.

MoP

He seems to use displacement maps a lot too.

IronHawk

Normal maps and GI don't work very well together as far as I know. Wish they would.

EarthQuake

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If all your scene has is a skylight or something, yeah, normal maps are pointless. But you definately can make it work, using a more elaborate light setup, and a faint GI light.

Ryno

Actually, he says he didn't use GI. That taken along with a multi-sub with 66 sub materials makes me wonder what the hell this guy is thinking. Great artist, no doubt, but efficient workflow for production? I guess it's just his own personal projects, so it doesn't matter.

Jesse Moody

oh god i have this guys stuff saved to my 3d folder for inspiration. This guy is insane. I want to model paint chips on my next models haha Total poly wastage at it's best but hell it looks amazing and although most of us make stuff for games I think this guy is just going for realism without any polycounts and time frames.

Awesome work.