You can't fight in here, this is the war room! (UDK)
Started this a few days back, it's the war room from the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Am planning on changing the concrete texture to one more like the film but was getting ahead of myself so thought I'd post this up now to get some feedback as this is my first non tiny environment 
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The scale on the design was much larger than in the final film
This is not intended to be an exact recreation but i would appreciate accuracy crits, The scales should be write they're done from set measurements, fire away
Ref:
The scale on the design was much larger than in the final film
This is not intended to be an exact recreation but i would appreciate accuracy crits, The scales should be write they're done from set measurements, fire away
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For me right now, the most interesting thing to look at is the lighting that they achieved through a black and white film. Jumping in to color right away might be a difficult approach, considering I've never seen the scene with color in it, so you're asking a lot from your audience.
Another thing is that over all there isnt much to "model" here... its more of a texture, material, lighting and post process exercise. If you were looking for a portfolio piece and you're interested in those types of things, its better that you know now before you dive too deep.
GL
I'm in agreement with Limewax here. It's difficult to visually connect this room to the film considering it's in color and you don't have much to show other than textures and lighting. If you want to add color, consider using very desaturated colors to lead back to black and white but give it an updated style.
Also, I'm really feeling like this environment is much bigger in scale that the actual film set. If I'm wrong, I still feel that the environment is far to big to function for anything. I would consider downsizing a bit or finding ways to fill in all the empty space.
the lighting and shadows look good but i would brighten it up a little so you could see the textures better everywhere. especially in the ceiling even though this going to be the darkest part of the room.
but good work so far
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@ Mute: I have tried desaturating but ended up going a bit over board on it and pulled it back somewhat from there but still not sure whether I went too far but It definatly looks better and echos more of the original. thanks
@ southpawsid: glad you like it
Got in a half finished big board just to see, not sure I can really sell the lights behind the board look so may have to go with projectors. Desaturated and worked on the lighting a bit as well.
Having a bit of trouble getting the scene capture reflect actor to work, have looked but can't find a solution to this though is probably just me being an idiot.
ESCUSE THE stupidity. The bumpoffset is going into the Diffuse not the normal.
That second mask adds a reflection distortion.
Also, make sure to check off the ScreenPos Node.
Will probably tackle the projectors next then the bench and banquet at the back of the room
Burton, look at the photos near the top of the thread, you can see the wires hanging down at angles from the ceiling.
Or if you do use square tiles, maybe you could have some different colored tiles around the table going in a circle, maybe even raise that circle a little so the table becomes even more of a center piece in your scene.
When I think about it it seems like the ceiling could use a similar approach where it becomes kind of a circular shape above the table. There's also a great chance for some nice construction where the wires for the circular lamps are attached.
@flaagan: I have been intending to add a film grain for a while but haven't got round to it, well have got a dodgey one now will probably change it for a better one later or get rid of it.
@PhilipK: Yeah I see what you mean, toned the floor down a bit, darkened the spec and diffuse and made the reflections less apparent. The tiles around the base of the table are actually scuff marked and less reflective but that might be bit of a subtle effect really. I like the idea of raising the centre though will have to try that
Tried to emphasize the table more as a centrepeice but may have gone overboard, as with the film grain. oh and fixed the dodgey beams, had forgotten to flip the green when taking it into UDK
Also, fill this thing up! With stuff!
the device holding the lighting in place is a bit clumbsy looking- I`d imagine something much more eloquent and minimalistic. The structure you have now has a bit of a carousel vibe.
The top beams don't bother me in the scale department- I think it might be they need to be grounded with a beam running up the wall to meet them.
Also- maybe some sort of trim running along the base of the wall to help marry the floor to walls might look nice.
@Razgriz I have to say I really like the beams how they are
@konstruct Yeah well the original plans for the seen state green poker style table, before black and white was decided on so I went with that till I thought about it and can't find any other colour for it I really like, I like the visual metaphor for betting the fate of the world even if it is a little clumsy.
Yeah I will come up with something of my own for hanging the lights, the more I look at it the worse it looks.
A trim is a really good Idea I'll get onto that.
black shiny tiles?
maybe with brighter lighting and darker shadows it will feel better
1. Your spokes are angled more up than the ones in the reference image. It's making it feel kinda like a circus tent. In the reference image, the spokes are almost parallel to the ground.
2. The spokes aren't as long (or don't feel as long because of #1) as they are in the reference. That's causing the cords that the lights are hanging from to be at an unappealing angle. If the spokes were longer, the cords could be almost straight and then they wouldn't look quite so stressed.
I'm wondering if the floor issues might be helped with larger tiles, sorta like it's just made up of six or seven big slabs of polished granite or marble instead of all those little tiles. Every government building I've ever been in has had big, important floors like that, with that sexy little detail of brass filling in the gaps between the tiles. It's been a while since, and I wasn't looking for those sorts of details, the last time I watched Dr. Strangelove, so I don't know what the floor was like in the actual War Room.
That film grain is coming along nicely, and I love the composition of that bottom shot with the tiny chairs silhouetted against the Big Board. That'll probably be the one you want to lead with when showing this sucker in your portfolio.
@tonysladky: I tried making it fall completely straight but that looked worse so settling on a half way point for now.
And I tried your suggestion for sexy flooring but I really wasn't sure about it so just made an attempt to refine the current flooring as below, made the reflections blurrier and darkened the spec and diffuse to make everything else pop out against it
and here is what the floor from the film looks like but I really dislike it
thanks
Haven't had much time to work on this of recent but still making steady progress, All the large things are complete now to move onto smaller details.
Btw, the table looks gread to play poker on it!
Looks pretty spot on to the reference you have, but its pretty empty though. This might be one of those projects where you might have to go off on a tangent and add more stuff in the scene. Populate it with servers, coffee machine, old school computers, a fish tank, ect.
If I can ask you, how do you get reflections like so in your tiles on the ground there? It adds a nice touch to the scene, but I can't seem to mimic the effect inside of UDK on my own