The House on the Roc--Work in Progress

sharsein · May 2017

Going to be making this concept by Charlène Le Scanff : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dx4JQ
Blockout to figure out proportions and composition:

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sharsein · May 2017

Did a sketch over to brainstorm ideas for what could be going on in the back of the house. Learned a bit about lift nets, I think it'd be fun to have one that caught some large predator to add to the precariousness of the house. Not sure if I want to stay with the bear vs something more spiny to echo the sharp rock things sticking out of the water.

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sharsein · Jun 2017

Modeled out the roof planks more. Struggled a lot to hide the fishing rod from the front view, I don't think it works compositionally, and I really don't want to compromise the silhouette from the angle depicted in the concept art.

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sharsein · Jul 2017

Sculpt in Zbrush:

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sharsein · Sep 2017

Returned to this after taking a break. Baked normals and AO. Texture is still incomplete, currently just base color and shadow group with inverted the blue channel of the AO as a mask. Not happy with the shadow colors I picked. Tried using Unreal for a first lighting pass--not happy with the smudgy shadow look so will need tutorial digging.

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sharsein · Nov 2017

Handpaint done, trying to figure out how to get the lighting to not be either bleeding markery or desaturated and dusty.

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sharsein · Nov 2017

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Lighting and roughness set up. Water should probably be slightly greener. Not sure how to get the water lighting effect shown in the concept.

Nathair23 · Nov 2017

How cute, I really like it! Water looks like the difficult part material-wise, good luck with that

Also, for the water have you tried with some voronoi texture in order to make the foam like the concept?

lotet · Nov 2017

This is beautifull, really love the shading and the way the forms pop.

sharsein · Nov 2017

Nathair23 said:

How cute, I really like it! Water looks like the difficult part material-wise, good luck with that Also, for the water have you tried with some voronoi texture in order to make the foam like the concept?

Thanks! I hadn't heard of voronoi before, but adding noise to the water makes sense. I'll try it out.

sharsein · Dec 2017

I challenged myself to try to design the fishing rod and fish to match the style of the concept art. Choosing the colors was probably my biggest challenge.

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Nothing seemed to work for the rod, so after looking at reference realized the problem was I needed more detail in the shapes to avoid the toddler toy look:

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sharsein · Dec 2017

Got help from Kristof Lovas for an issue with the fish mouth clipping through water, technical thread here: http://polycount.com/discussion/194623/solved-inside-the-fishs-mouth-custom-depth#latest

Since it was so stylized, ended up just using a simple alpha texture for the ripples.

More images on artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/wQrVY

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Fish turnaround:

Fishing rod final:

The House on the Roc--Work in Progress

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