kwhitaker Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Hi everyone, with the next part under way i thought i post a small clip, no voice or music, trying to get mud has been a trip. and I'm using the TECHNOCRANE_Beta_V15_01_25_2010 , this camera is amazing. thanks again to the creaters of this camera. Dreadwood_swamp_mud.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSpleen Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 I like your choices on camera shots/angles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitaker Posted May 1, 2010 Author Share Posted May 1, 2010 Thank you Spleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Forwood Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 I really like the sequence with the roots of the trees but I noticed that in the previous sequence the tree is rendered with a toon outline while this one is not. Do you have any renders of your characters without the toon outlines? I would be interested in seeing how they compare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitaker Posted May 2, 2010 Author Share Posted May 2, 2010 Hi Paul, i didn't have any standard imagies, so i shot these, a toon and standered. Hope this is what you had in mind. The standard is a bit dark, i did not change the lighting between shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Baker Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 wow, cool stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitaker Posted May 2, 2010 Author Share Posted May 2, 2010 Thank you Walter, nice hearing from you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptiversen Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 Hi everyone, with the next part under way i thought i post a small clip, no voice or music, trying to get mud has been a trip. and I'm using the TECHNOCRANE_Beta_V15_01_25_2010 , this camera is amazing. thanks again to the creaters of this camera. Do you think you will re shoot other scenes with the "TECHNOCRANE"? I really like your work... I wish you still had some books available. Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitaker Posted May 3, 2010 Author Share Posted May 3, 2010 Thank you Tony, you know i really love that TECHNOCRANE, i wish i would have know about it a long time ago, still getting the hang of it, but yes i will be using it from now on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted May 3, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted May 3, 2010 Yeah, mud is a tricky notion in CG but I think you're getting it. If you could make it move slower it would look more oozy and thicker. I like the look of that very first toon-rendered shot. That was very storybook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitaker Posted May 3, 2010 Author Share Posted May 3, 2010 Yes, the mud scenes have been troublesome. after rendering mud scenes numerous times, and using a DarkSim mud texture, which i could not use any of the reflectivity options, so i went back to a image map, still work' en on it. Thank you Robcat, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Forwood Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 Thanks for posting those pics, Kat. I can't make up my mind which I prefer but as you are aiming to reproduce the look of your illustrations I guess the flatter toon renders are going to remain your prefered choice. I'm just not all that keen on the outline of the noses when they are facing the camera and the toon backgrounds tend to lose all of the effect of the bump maps. You seem to be making good progress though with your epic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitaker Posted May 3, 2010 Author Share Posted May 3, 2010 Thanks Paul, it's always a challenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted May 3, 2010 Admin Share Posted May 3, 2010 That's some impressive mud Kat! The storytelling is the thing and you've captured that. If you had the time to add some sticking and dripping effects that would really sell it. I really like the immediacy of it as the characters along with the viewer hardly have time to think about what is going on before we find ourselves in the thick of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwhitaker Posted May 4, 2010 Author Share Posted May 4, 2010 Hi Rodeny, Yeah, I'm hoping to be able to do the mud dripping effects, if i can just get by Mac throwing a rope, thank you always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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