Environment Projects - Work in Progress
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Updated 12/1 with sci-fi project render.
Thanks for all the crits and advice.
There is no target really for this project, just a portfolio piece and learning mostly, it's for my final senior projects at school.
Thanks for all the crits and advice.
There is no target really for this project, just a portfolio piece and learning mostly, it's for my final senior projects at school.
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Other than that, it's looking to be a really solid piece. Nice job!
Then I got 3 weeks to do the lighting, and it's gonna be two lighting scenarios for each piece. So yeah there will be a day scene and a twilight scene for this particular piece.
Lighting's ace.
more seriously I don't think the lighting is boring, it's just that if it was coming through the windows, it would look way more moody and interesting...
unless the ceiling is a big light ?
The stains under the windows feel like they are all the same. Vary it up a bit. Make one have more streaks and leaking than just a general darker area. It'd be cool if the leaky one had a stain that actually went over the middle concrete trim, and then saw a small/faint stain on the sidewalk, where it would have eventually leaked to.
Just some ideas. I think the biggest issue for me is just have repetitive the textures look. But not a bad start by any means, keep going
Adding on the road seems somewhat off scale, the lines on the street seems to be way too close to the sidewalk...and the width doesn't look like vehicles can really drive through.
Also how did you go about texturing? Tiled, and scaled Planar Maps? Or did you actually unwrap the buildings?
Are you using 512's?
Thank you for giving me something to look up to.
I'll post some wireframes when I'm completed, right now it was a kind of rush job to finish the project so I haven't really went back and merged verts and things so it's a pretty unruly mesh.
Re-render.
If you are using Maya, Maya will also apply a blurry filter on your textures when you bring them in. I'm not a Maya user, but someone around here is and knows what I am talking about. Turn that filter off as well if you are using Maya.
My only beef is with the doors in the alley, or rather the lack of door frames. I'm not really sure what is holding up the bricks at the top of the door. You where careful to make sure bricks where not cut in half, thats a good step but you need to finish off the doors. Actually when doors are delivered to a construction site they are in frames already, no one ever bolts a door right to brick.
Love the awesome cut off seam on the sides...you should throw in the frame and perhaps break it off with some unique worn on the corners.
Suggestions:
- The spec on the metal is really flat.
- The lights run right into the door bulkhead. Organize your tiles so the door isn't cutting into the middle of one.
- The hallway has some really straight lines if you broke those lines up with large bulk heads it might give you more details to play with. You have one beam already but it is is really flat and doesn't offer much in the way of detail. If you put in larger bulkheads that stick farther out from the walls they will cast shadows and those shadows will help detail out the scene.
- The bottom access panel tiles don't fit the wall tiles. In most cases when you do repetitive hallways you want to it in chunk that is all the same length floor, walls and trim it with bulkheads. Think of it more as building with modular tiles instead of applying textures that tile. Making different pieces as you go, corners, interesting details doorways, and place them in every 3-4th bulkhead. It will help you plan out details and you'll never get a doorway that clips into details like the lights do. It also helps to create 2-3 different types of bulkhead trim pieces so you can set an interesting pattern down the hall way.
- The lighting is kind of flat and mechanical. Think about what you want to draw attention to, is it the access panel by the door? Could you put a light on it and turn down the rest of the lights so the foreground is slightly darker? It would create a focal point and make the viewer want to go explore the panel and go thru the door. So instead of the scene being "look at my scene" it becomes "figure out what you're going to do if this was a game screenshot". In portfolio pieces you want to foster that "explore more" feeling in people, it can help drive them back to your main gallery page and "explore more" of your art. It's using lighting as a tool to draw out more detail, modeling with this extra level of detail in mind will help you create more interesting scenes. Most people approach lighting as an after thought, "my scene is done now how do I light it" instead of "I've got this blocked I should do a rough lighting pass before I get to far along".
Once you get the opportunity to look back into it...there so much more stuff you can populate the scene with...