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d00kie

d00kie
imb3nt


My partner in crime and I have teamed up to tackle this challenge. We chose Concept 4 and decided to give it a gothic/steampunk twist. From the looks of it, we've started kind of late. But better late than never! Here is a super quick sketch of some ideas we got tonight. There is plenty more to come! We want to do something dealing with steam powering some kind of structure. We were thinking maybe a lighthouse or perhaps some kind of processing plant. Lots more conceptage to do

original concept


quick sketches from tonight



yeehaw.

imb3nt

Brilliant!

d00kie

more conceptage. Ideas for main fountain and the lights that will go on the path towards the house. Oh, we decided to make a brothel/bordello/house of all things unmentionalbe of sorts.



yeehaw.

d00kie

It's been a while since we updated. I suppose I should post the concept WIPS. We decided to make it into a vampire cabaret and go down the "spooky" route. Commoners come to the show and...get killed... Their bodies are harvested and what have you and the remains are eaten or burned. ^_^
The cabaret itself is known as "The Redrüm Cabaret". Now that I think about it, we should probably make one of the rooms red with lighting or something. There's more assets in the environment that aren't in the concept pics, namely some lightposts and the flywheel, bah. Anyhoo, here's the small update:

fountain and light change:


some ideas for signs that will be placed on the building:


a topdown view of all that is good:


a shot of the building:


a tentative shot of what the beauty render might look like:


Depending on how much we get done, we're planning on adding more floors and addons to the house like in the concept, but we don't want to get too ambitious. Only time will tell.
plenty more to come.
yeehaw.

imb3nt

BRING THE PAIN!





booyah...oooh..

d00kie

started work for the fountain high poly. We got more WIPS that have yet to be posted, i suppose we should post them up here too. bah.

front to back


side to side




yeehaw.

d00kie

proe grass.

front to back


side to side




yeehaw.

imb3nt

Blood fountain.

Check.

killingpeople

I luv u

Thefirston

everything seems really cool right now, but there are two concerns that pass by my mind with your concept. the first is im wondering how you are going to model that woman without it being too detailed. the second is that your scene doesn't feel all that evil. maybe when you go more into the evil the problem with your character will be fixed

d00kie

Thanks for the crit Thefirston. For the woman, we decided too make her really rusty and damaged due to acid rain, age, etc. It will give the impression of a woman statue there, but it won't have too much detail, human figure wise. There will be parts of the statue missing as well we were thinking. The steam coming up from the fountain will also hide the more human figure characteristics as well, hopefully.
As for the evil side of things, we were shooting for the spooky look, which im afraid wasnt portrayed at all in the concept (im not that good of a concept artist :P). But in the final shot, we'll rely on the lighting to portray that spooky theme, if everything goes according to plan. More content to come.


yeehaw.

d00kie

more stuffs in the works, hope to get everything pieced together by the end of the week.

lamp post

d00kie

updayt

d00kie

other ground post. thyme to bayk and all that jazz. the arms that connect the lanterns to the post aren't there, we prolly just use alphas or maybe do something with normals in photoshop. bah dunno.

d00kie

Quick bake session in Maya. There isn't that much detail in the highpoly just yet, put the polys are there. I was just seeing if ma old computadora could handle the whole baking ordeal. It seems like it can hold its own, so i'll add the dents, scrapes, erosion, and all that jaaaaaazzzzzz to the high poly.

Thefirston

the issue that i kindof have with this last asset is that all these metal plates, which is what im supposing is what all those rivets are holding up, feel too random. i couldn't really imagine some building this. i don't know, maybe its just the rivets themselves that are throwing me off. maybe if you make slits between the metal slightly larger and the rivets smaller it might work

imb3nt

Heres a little update as to what we've been up to...
Still working on placement on some of the props and coming up with new and exciting things to throw in and jack up the poly count. d00k is workin on a low poly fountain so that should show up in the center here pretty soon. I'm going to start piping up the scene a bit once i get some other things ironed out.

Oh...
pay no mind to the dude hanging out at the front door and in the water. mainly used for scaling.



Prost!

d00kie

bueno, lettuce keep moving in the direction of forward. at a snail's pace. times infinity.
/logout


TURBO JETS!

misterboogie

Sweet!
Go! Go! Go!

s0id3

looking good. Though I feel with the asset with the metal plates, that pieces should overlap each other and will break up the longitude and latitude placements they sorta have right now. Also maybe some dents would be nice.

Thefirston

everything seems to be coming out alright, im just wondering how you are going to fill up the background

Ivalice

Ya'lls works in progress look great, keep pluggin away!

cowboyorange

Looking sweet keep it up bro-sef man

d00kie

just as the sloth is, so are we in our everyday struggle to progress! yayhaw! updates, Unreal action tomorrow, possibly some lemonade.

normal fountain, minus the bear necessities


howse


howse pt II




we'll make it. in rod we trust.

g0th

I like the pipes

d00kie

baykd goods.
this was my first time doing normal mapping and my first time really putting together an actual environment, so even if we dont finish (which we will, /confidence), we've learned a heap of things about our respective 3d apps (mine being Maya and bent's being Max), the workflow of normal mapping, and the value of the almighty hour.
yay for education!
baykd goods!

bluud fountain


lamppost uno


lamp post dos


steam engine that could



2morrow is COLOUR and various other tweaked normal mappd nipples!
kudos for RL and gf aggro taking away precious game art practicing sessions. >:O

d00kie

quackly.





the clock. we are working against it.

imb3nt

Its gonna be a late night but i have enough caffeine to sustain me.
TO THE END!!

imb3nt

Time to unwind.

Who wants a guinness? :poly122:

killingpeople

I do see you this weekend.