[STADIUM] Puke Palace, Jeffro
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Reserving my spot. I'm gonna do the Pukes Palace from Mutant League Hockey. This is going to be an Orc hockey rink. I did up a moodboard. Going to start on the concept in the next couple days.
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My next list of things to sort out are:
What the back wall will be. Thinking either chunky bricks, more random metal sheets, or wood. I'll add the doors over there too.
The little green circles are orcs in the crowd. Need to figure out a decent way of working that out. My thinking was use an overhanging awning thing that would shadow the crowd a decent amount so I could get away with using flat Orcs for the crowd.
Also the lighting I'm not sure how to use physical lighting sources for this. Spotlights don't seem like they make sense. I'm leaning towards giant torches or hanging fire pit deals.
The score board is going to be a hanging wooden crate thing that houses an Orc and he has to change the score himself. Seemed like a good penalty box.
good luck!
Worked the concept a bit more.
Still not sure what to do about the lights. Might wait till I start working on this in 3d to sort that out.
The building shape is going to be be more asymmetrical. Like a shark fin.
Not sure if that's a good thing or not Zerogun.
Concept is about finished. Probably move into the modeling stage at this point and get some temp material texture going to get the values reading correctly.
I got the block out close to done. Decided on the right wall that the wood beams are supporting is going to be a mountain. That should allow me to vary the materials and values decently.
This is just a screengrab from Maya with lights in the scene. I'm going to take this to UDK eventually. Still have a laundry list of things to model out and get started on the textures first though.
Another strange thing is that you've got big tent covering small tents and towers have roof as well.
Big tent structure doesn't look like its something stable, though I'm not an engineer. And then last thing - lights. How someone is gonna lit them? How much light they produce? I mean, its not like ceiling is made out of metal. Most likely they burn a few holes through it, and then whole thing will collapse.
Maybe I'm taking it too seriously, but I believe regardless of the style, things should be somewhat believable.
The big tent shouldn't look that stable. My thinking on that is that it's made by orcs and is just mashed together. So it should look a big like it would fall down any second.
The square orcs are for block in purposes only just to get a sense of scale.
I think the gamefield is too perfect for orcs. I'm pretty sure they've got issues with 90 degree andles. And I wouldn't be surprised if there is couple tree stumps frozen in the ice as well
And maybe towers should be connected to gamefield? I don't know, just a thought. I think i'm troubled by the lack entrances for both viewers and players. Anyway, looking for a final result :thumbup:
Tree stumps is a nice idea.
The entry ways would be the towers. I need to adjust the placement of them.
This is still in Maya. Going to take this to UDK once all the textures are in place. Just trying to get them all roughed out.
looking good jeffro! I'm not sure how much is it work in progress, but I just saw it anyway :poly136:
doorway is just screams for a nice trim and hinges need to be bigger for sure, even if there is only one of them, otherwise they'll just dissappear.
Started roughing out the hockey goal. Textures are super basic. Going to try and get to them tomorrow. Going to add a drink bottle on the top, maybe some skulls and things stuck in the netting too. Not sure about making the frame out of wood. I was going to do bone. But that would have blended in with the ice to much. So going to do steel or wood I think.
So here's my progress on the goal. The netting is shit still probably rework that tomorrow. Also going to use the white space to add some props on the goal (drink, stuff stuck in the net, etc).
part of the reason why I started my entry in this challenge, is because I saw many ways to iterate further your ideas and design, but it's not my place to teach you, or to do it for you, and I had to channel it somehow))))
so I guess I can call you an inspirational kind of guy, but you maybe rushing things a little bit
anyway, about your hockey goal, couple crits, if you don't mind..
- it looks weak and fragile. even for a regular human, not to mention orc or mutant.
- hockey goal usually have base, which allows it to stand on ice
sometimes goals have really cool shape, kinda like this
i'm really is restraining myself from creating something like this from bones and metal :poly142:
@csprance Thanks! Having fun with this one. The top of the bowl tower deal is probably going to have a light source eventually. Some might have snow piled on them.
Here's an update with my progress so far. I worked on the scoreboard. Going to flesh out all the parts of this then go back and rework some areas depending on the time left. Hopefully start on the torch tomorrow and get to the stands shortly after.
scoreboard:
full level:
fire pit:
scene:
go go go!
Fixed some scale issues.
Got the stands working. I still need to make the crowd heads and torsos. But the stairs and stands are textured. I'm going to rework the awning texture and do a variation of it.
Still tons to do but the crowd will be next.
EDIT: Just figured I'd edit this instead of a duplicate post. I roughed out the crowd. Each head is 16 polys and the bodys are similar. I have each little group of people at 500 tris. I have plenty of polygons left so I'll probably do a head and body variation and mix and match them. That with vertex color should allow for a unique enough crowd.
Hoping to finish on time. Should be close.
Stuff to do is punch up the orange tarp texture, the rock wall texture, the patchwork texture, add objects under the ice (frozen fish, skeleton, etc), add crowd objects (foam hand, banners, etc).
Beauty Shots:
Construction Shot:
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