UC 2009 'END GAME' | BORN-ROBOTIC | 3D
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Woo, it's finally on!
Keeping this post clean to eventually post the final images (if I finish on time!).
More info coming in a second.
Keeping this post clean to eventually post the final images (if I finish on time!).
More info coming in a second.
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The theme this year is tricky, cause it really encourages me to go for some vast epic scenes, which I'll know I'll never have time to finish, so I'm trying to stay realistic...
No final ideas yet, here are a few though :
1- Some kind of tech-ish nuclear missile silo, seen from the inside, built underground, so with some rocky areas, and lots support beams etc, and obviously a big menacing missile/rocket in the center (something like a Soyuz rocket).
Thinking of a low-angled shot, looking towards the top of the silo, with an opening to some dark skies.
This is the idea I'm most fond of at the moment, even though it's not the most original.
2- A patch of ground, on a hill, with a dying tree on it. Around it, mechanical stuff is slowly taking over, tubes starting to curl around the tree. In the background, the world has been overun by strange machines, and this tree is the last thing left.
This could be kind of a sequel to what my collegues and I did last year. I like the idea even though it's a bit too generic good/evil, but I'm not sure i'd be so fun to make.
3- More of a toony style, a nice little kitchen, with a table in the center. Nothing on the table except for a box of chocolate in the middle, and only one chocolate left! OMG!!11
Yeah it's silly, and not so ambitious, but could be interesting for a more toon-ish style.
That's it, good luck to everyone participating! GREEN for the win!
I'll come over and pick it up with my Soy-ouze.
Go go Bal! Bon courage.
Tell us the story of this last chocolate dude :thumb:, it seems to be the more original idea of the 3 suggestions (in my opinion
Go for the toon-ish style, I'm waiting to see your first WIP !
So in the end I'm not doing any of my initial ideas, going for something a bit less original, but more motivating for me. Gonna go with some big-ass door, imagine right before facing the final boss or something. Gonna be a mix of tech and concrete, thinking kind of Blame! style.
Here's a quick sketch of the general idea... Camera angle won't be like that at all obviously, will work on that more once I'm more satisfied with my 3D base.
It reminds me of an illustration by Moebius.
Unfortunatly I don't remember if it is from "Arzach",
"Le Garage hermetique" or another of its works...
The illustration on the link below is not exactly the one I was thinking about.
http://itsalljustcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/moebius.jpg
It was more like millions of people rushing towards a gigantic Gaudi-like
building, with "Human rights" writen above a closed huge portal
Anyway, I think there is something really good to pick up here and that
fits "Game End" subject. Trying to put a bit of Moebius "Fake Universe"
("False Universe"?) thema in your scenery could make it more interesting,
may be. Like, "what you see is not really what it is".
I think it could bring something deeper to your "Final stage" idea.
Can't wait to see more. Man, I'm so sad to be out of it this year.
I hope it is not the last "Unearthly".
So, I decided to come back to my initial idea (nuclear silo), gonna be tricky finishing on time, but at least I'll have some showable bits.
Quick inspiring ref sheet (tech-porn, yummy).
And some initial progress, on the overall layout + rocket hi-poly.
I love the two guys carefuly
looking down inside the hole
It seems that there's a polycount
logo hidden behind the open trapdoor
at the top of the rocket on the first pic
Wich augur well upon you work for this comp.
Good luck with it.
question though are you bothering to do any quick renders showing off your sub D work as you go? Or you just taking screenshots of the view ports?
(I think a few render or 2 near end will show off more awesome!
Either Way good sir, I got my monocle on you!
Seforin, nice monocle you got there.
So a bit of progress, here's my basic floor modeling and bake finished, just have to do the texture (will wait to have a few pieces done before starting textures, to get some better consistency).
Workflow is : 1- little sketch in photoshop over a screenshot of a few polies, 2- quick and dirty sub-d modeling 3- Import into zbrush to scratch stuff up a bit. 4- Bake normal, ambient occlusion, and base color map in xNormal, apply on low poly in max.
And I finished the hipoly for the reactor of the rocket, still have to detail the rest of the fuselage.
I have my two final screenshot angles kind of decided in unrealed, but I'm too lazy to launch it at the moment, so I'll post those later.