A scene from Legend of Sealed Book----UDK

Baolong

Hi guys, have been a long time since my last cartoon style enviornment work,this time I want create a scene from one of my favorite Chinese cartoon:Legend of Sealed Book.
It was a 1983 cartoon movie that truly masterpieces.Fromthe character design to enviornment design,fill up wiht triditional chinese painting style that I grown with.
is shame don't have english version, here is a full movie link from youtube
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgF8t233Dtc"]?????? HQ? ???? / ?????? / ??86?? - YouTube[/ame]

and here is my moodbord

Baolong

here is my WIP,and latest version

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FyTDp-mjE0"]DanSheng_Realtime animation UDK.wmv - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVvgKE_Z6qo&context=C4113f2aADvjVQa1PpcFN1PJWTbzJ9VNBBHF9cehoZkTp12qQrB9Y="]DanshengNight2 - YouTube[/ame]

bummzack

Looking really good. I love the style and colors. Not sure about the dark "clouds" on the wall though. Are these supposed to be shadows? If it's to add a worn-out look to the wall, you should place it more carefully and maybe tone it down a bit? The stones at the bottom of the wall also look awfully flat.

Other than that it's a great start. Looking forward to see more.

Hayden Zammit

Looking great so far. Love the style.

I know its all still early stages, but the texture on the rocks looks really blurry at the moment.

Baolong

bummzack wrote: »

Looking really good. I love the style and colors. Not sure about the dark "clouds" on the wall though. Are these supposed to be shadows? If it's to add a worn-out look to the wall, you should place it more carefully and maybe tone it down a bit? The stones at the bottom of the wall also look awfully flat.

Other than that it's a great start. Looking forward to see more.

thanks In fact Im not sure about the rocks on walls, I did some detail like Tridition cartoom texture, but then i think is just lost the original style, so i leave is flat , jus tcolor, but ..i can try some other idea later

Baolong

Hayden Zammit wrote: »

Looking great so far. Love the style.

I know its all still early stages, but the texture on the rocks looks really blurry at the moment.

thnaks, is true, for background stuff is ok, but is too blure for use in forground

KyleJensen

Damn this is looking good so far. I've never head/seen Legend of the Sealed book before either. I'm intrigued by the art style. Looking forward to seeing more.

Baolong

Thanks and tonight i did another rock which more similar the movie

Donavonyoung

This is looking very cool. I really dig the look of this piece!!

Baolong

Another update, today i add terrain and water

Lucas Annunziata

I am absolutely in love with this. I had never heard of the animation, but it looks awesome based on those few screenshots. Keep it up.

Norron

Aw, where'd the trees and rock formations go? I really liked the rock and tree grouping in the 2nd iteration you did. Hope those make a comeback.

Baolong

Norron wrote: »

Aw, where'd the trees and rock formations go? I really liked the rock and tree grouping in the 2nd iteration you did. Hope those make a comeback.

Thanks
I removed trees, because it was a quick test,I will do a better version .

Baolong

I think this mayb the final update.. maybe not, but I want start new one now
Final Video 01

System

really digging the style. but I feel like the sky and ground textures could use a little love? Possibly some more distanced mountains or some clouds. Its just such a large percentage of the picture ya know?

Could be nice to bring in some more contrast, perhaps lower the tonemapper in post? Idk if you were still looking for crit

njc6425

I like the art style pulled it off for sure, and i like the misty effect you get around the water, not sure if its on purpose but i like it

Baolong

ChrisPerr wrote: »

really digging the style. but I feel like the sky and ground textures could use a little love? Possibly some more distanced mountains or some clouds. Its just such a large percentage of the picture ya know?

Could be nice to bring in some more contrast, perhaps lower the tonemapper in post? Idk if you were still looking for crit

thanks
In fact for the floor, the sky is quite flat and empty ,is the original idea from Chinese tridition painting, is call Liu Bai, means leave white on paper. is kind of make more contrast between detail and background,and I want keep it
and for the overall Tonemaper,I think little bite over, maybe my monitor is too grey now, I should turn it little down. Thanks you comment

chrisradsby

Yeah that looks really awesome. Great work!

Samfisher84

superb work!

Anuxinamoon

Oh wow I am loving this!!! The colours and softness to the textures is really nice!

Baolong

I did a boat there, not sure if really need or not. but just make more intresting in river, also a night version as well
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imCzaHJSB8Y&context=C468a471ADvjVQa1PpcFN1PJWTbzJ9VCIVKutYoVJoDdA8_OHUWcI="]Dansheng02 Day and Night UDK - YouTube[/ame]

Ged

looks beautiful, I feel like the character should pop out more maybe have him use his diffuse in the emmisive slot just a little?

Hristo Rusanov

Stunning work! :thumbup::thumbup:

Baolong

Ged wrote: »

looks beautiful, I feel like the character should pop out more maybe have him use his diffuse in the emmisive slot just a little?

thanks! really good idea, why i forgot that, just did quick test, way better with little bit emmisive , update shortly, thanks again

Baolong

add little bit emmisive, so much better for me

Alberto Rdrgz

the night version looks really cool!

Jessica Dinh

Geez, love the colors and style of this, esp. the day version - What are you still planning to add?

Daven

this is so amazing

Baolong

Jessica Dinh wrote: »

Geez, love the colors and style of this, esp. the day version - What are you still planning to add?

Thanks
not sure what have to do next, maybe polish some stuff

Xoliul

Phenomenal! May I ask where you work in guildford ?

Baolong

Just updated the video here ,with little bit toon shader on character

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVvgKE_Z6qo&context=C4113f2aADvjVQa1PpcFN1PJWTbzJ9VNBBHF9cehoZkTp12qQrB9Y="]DanshengNight2 - YouTube[/ame]

Baolong

Xoliul wrote: »

Phenomenal! May I ask where you work in guildford ?

Im working for Supermassive and you?

sltrOlsson

I wanna play this game man! Fantastic atmosphere, so peaceful!

Baolong

today I did some Lotus in water, looking not bad for me

Lephenix

Amazing, i love the mood.

Baolong

thanks and here is the video with little bit music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rxp32wW4uw&feature=youtu.be

TheGoozah

Awesome stuff!!! You really nailed it so far!

ZacD

Is there anyway we can get some png quality images? it looks awesome.

Tobbo

Man that atmosphere is sweet. Really dig the style too.

Gannon

Really love how this is coming. You're really hitting a great mood and the style. Can't wait to see more.

Zyloh

Wow, well done!

Baolong

Thanks guy
after I put little music in last video, I think maybe I will go further do some more in my scene and make it more cinematic, here I did a little dragonfly, and with simple animation.

King Mango

I demand lossless desktops. OK there I said it, everyone else can relax now. :cheers:

So you know you pretty much have one of the most unique looking things that's been made in UDK. I hope someone from Epic sees this and gets behind it. It's more than worthy.

d1ver

this is dope man. Love the style. great job

I thought I'd quickly throw together some ideas for you:


It's definitely not the most polished paintover but I hope I got the idea across. It's a great piece of artwork you have there and I feel it's a bit underepresented right now with the bland lighting and the lack of sky altogether.

You may want to look into "kung-fu panda" and "road to Eldorado" for some sky and clouds reference. Road to Eldorado concept art had some awesome stylized clouds.

Anyway this is already very-very good. Best of luck:)

cheers

Lephenix

Wow, i love it.

GoSsS

This is awesome. I really like the style and how it turned out !!

Baolong

Thank you very much d1ever:)

Leave sky and floor quite flat is the original concept and my idea from Chinese painting (Liu bai)you can see there is always blending sky ,floor and no clouds in most Chinese landcape painting,reason have 2( from my point of view) sometime less mean more by your immaginnation ,second, lots of time is foggy weather in mountain , very strong fog blend everything together. is really hard to explain, but I do want keep it as my orginal idea. thanks for you paint over
I will put little more layerd fog in background.

Rednaz

Wow beautiful stuff you really nailed it with the lighting!

D4V1DC

Leave sky and floor quite flat is the original concept and my idea from Chinese painting (Liu bai)
you can see there is always blending sky ,floor and no clouds in most Chinese landcape painting,reason have 2( from my point of view) sometime less mean more by your immaginnation ,second, lots of time is foggy weather in mountain , very strong fog blend everything together. is really hard to explain, but I do want keep it as my orginal idea. thanks for you paint over
I will put little more layerd fog in background.

^ Hope this works for you.

I really love the whole style of your environment, congrats & keep posting.

d1ver

Baolong wrote: »

Thank you very much d1ever:)

Leave sky and floor quite flat is the original concept and my idea from Chinese painting (Liu bai)

you can see there is always blending sky ,floor and no clouds in most Chinese landcape painting,reason have 2( from my point of view) sometime less mean more by your immaginnation ,second, lots of time is foggy weather in mountain , very strong fog blend everything together. is really hard to explain, but I do want keep it as my orginal idea. thanks for you paint over
I will put little more layerd fog in background.

Hey man, no sweat. I see the point. In fact I even enforced it in other conversations a while back.) But just in case I'll share with you what I realized for myself later on and you can decide what to do with it.

The basic question here is does your audience care as much for your inspiration as you do? One of the things I've had to learn over time is to treat my artwork as a completely independent, self-sufficient piece because that is the way the audience generally perceives it. No one cares how close you are to the source if the work is not good enough. In fact no one ever cares about anything about your work, but it making an impression completely on it's own.

I've neglected some things in favor of the original sometimes and generally it came at the expense of beauty. Which now seems utterly irrational for me as an artist. I also now don't think that changing the original to make it prettier is defying it, but rather refining it and building up on it. And that is nothing but a good thing.

I can totally see how you might want to leave things the way they are. It also has to do with motivation, because when you think you've wrapped the project it's pretty hard to make yourself come back for another chunk of work. So I just thought I'd give you an opinion that might come in handy if not now then sometime later)

cheers. and congrats on a job well done:)

konstruct

Fantastic. not much else to say