Stylized 19th century room
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Hello everyone. I thought I would share my next project with you. I have been wanting to do a stylized piece for quite awhile. So I went looking for an idea and found this concept by Irene Suh.
I started working on high poly furniture.
I know there isn't a lot to comment on, but I thought I would get stated on sharing my progress.
I started working on high poly furniture.
I know there isn't a lot to comment on, but I thought I would get stated on sharing my progress.
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Check out this stuff in Versailles
Shiny marble + ornate murals + detail trim = WHOA
A little more furniture progress
although I am considering taking the cushions into zbrush to give them some wrinkle details.
Also did some experimenting in UDK with the custom lighting materials. Pretty simple stuff, but I wanted to make sure I maintained the right saturation in the shadowed areas.
My lighting completely broke at some point, spent a few days trying to trouble shoot before I just gave up and remade the scene. Here is what I have so far:
Every time I go to work on this something else comes up.
Anyway still doing things:
I bumped up the yellow on the trim. and extended the fainting couch, or whatever you want to call it.
Also updated the carpet
Here are a few changes.
The candles don't seem to be casting any light (unless you decided to leave them unlit?)
The concept looks a little more yellow/warmer than your image in the shadows, maybe make your ambient light a little warmer.
Very cool!
Also, I agree with the sentiment that the concept piece has more of a golden glow to it - it gives the impression that the wood floor is really reflecting its color onto everything else. Your final piece still looks amazing but you may want to consider some global illumination - either baked or faked in your textures.
I firstly thought your scene was lacking a bit of contrast. It was very mid-tone heavy, so I took it in PS and balanced the values a little. You can do that in UDK with the scene adjustments either in world properties or the post process node you set up on your own.
Secondly, I added some additional highlights to make some of the surfaces pop more. You can do this by placing additional (and small) lights near objects that might would receive an additional splash of light. This technique is exaggerated, almost Hollywood in nature, but it can really punch up some of your materials and add an additional punch to the light vibrancy. I drew in some arrows where I did it, but placing a little point light/line light at the arms of some of your window facing chairs, ottomans, tables, etc can really bring out some pizazz...and we all love some pizazz, right?
Next thing I did was ground some of your objects with better shadows. You can adjust your AO node to get it like you want but it would really help fix the illusion that some of your assets are floaty. Not sure if UDK standard has negative lights but using some of them to fake shadows is a great way to get the same effect. I also let the left/exposed side of the room (opposite windows) get darker. Maybe having your bounce light taper just a tick more so the entirety of the room isn't splashed with the same intensity of light. I also added just a touch of purply-rose color to the shadows, shifting it away from the already tons of oranges and yellows in the scene.
EDIT - Dang, the image is too small to show the detail. Wish I could figure out how to make a gif and it would be much easier to see.
The paintover is kinda rough, but check it out full screen and see if anything strikes your fancy. Hope something is useful, great work!
-Jon
I hope to render out a short video so I'll be putting that up later this week.
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