Wildsided 75 Posted August 25, 2020 Author Share Posted August 25, 2020 My brother-in-law got Covid-19'd out of his job in HR management and is considering starting up his own firm. So I made him an animated logo. Animated Logo.mp4 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robcat2075 370 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Looks serious! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Brennan 61 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Great job on the logo! Best wishes for your brother. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted September 4, 2020 Author Share Posted September 4, 2020 I finally finished the first draft of Bernie Book 1 so treated myself to doing a bit of work on the illustrations. There's a scene where Bernie's Grandpa is helping him do some homework and as the bedroom was mostly done I decided to start with that. I don't think I've shown the room from this angle before so that's a thing. Pointless details include the maths homework being appropriate for the year Bernie would actually be in at school, there's a very faint wisp of steam coming off of his tea and one of the books on his shelf (sadly not in frame) is titled Captain Bombastic Is Really Fantastic. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 An important scene in the book takes place in a cave near Lilymoss Pond. So I've been modelling them for making illustrations. Bernie is tiny in the choreography from this angle. The hill itself is 120 feet across, stretches back 100 feet and rises 40 feet from ground level. I've used maps in the decal to dictate the length of the grass (hair) although it's not very visible from this distance. The trees are separate models made using the treez plugin and the leaves were made using hair again with an image of oak leaves added to the emitter. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnl3d 133 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 looks great Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 Cheers John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
itsjustme 67 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Very nice! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted September 19, 2020 Author Share Posted September 19, 2020 Thanks David. Quick questions lads (and lasses) Have I got something setup incorrectly that's making the shadows of the leaves render without their Alpha? The leaves themselves have rendered properly but the leaf shadows are rectangles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted September 20, 2020 Author Share Posted September 20, 2020 scratch that. I deleted the materials and reapplied them. that seems to have fixed it so must have been a bug. oddly, nothing else was changed for this re render but the shadow placement seems totally different. Ah well, I'll worry about that once the rest is done. Also in the middle there is Lilymoss pond. 40 ft diameter, 15 ft deep in the middle. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 I've been working on one of Bernie's classmates over the last few days and decided to give her a cable knit sweater. I haven't done the sleeves yet but figured I'd post a work in progress. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
itsjustme 67 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Looks great, Dan! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted October 7, 2020 Author Share Posted October 7, 2020 Thanks again David ☺️ I've finished off the textures and added fur to the character. Her name is Katerina Hawthorn. She still needs hair adding. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 Work on the illustrations continues. Just finished up another of Bernie's schoolmates, his name is Melvin 'Mel' Trough. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
itsjustme 67 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Great stuff, Dan! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 So, I ran the numbers and quickly established that if I wanted to release Bernie some time before the heat death of the universe, I was gonna have to change tact. Modelling each individual character, costume and location was going to take waaay longer than I had available so I came up with a solution that I think will work. I'm going to use A:M to rough out the images I need and then sketch over them in photoshop. Case in point I needed a picture of Mrs Burrows in exercise clothes. My model of Mrs B has her in a long dress and rather than remodel and texture her into a new outfit I tore the bottom part of her dress off, posed her and made this. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robcat2075 370 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 I'm just catching up on some of this, Great looking character, again! I'm not sure what you mean by your new workflow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 Thanks Robert. I've made a picture to demo the work flow. Essentially I'll be using a choreography and the models I've already made, plus stand-ins for the ones I haven't (Like basic blocks to represent furniture or a body to represent characters I haven't modelled). That will allow me to get the correct perspectives on the images and then I'll use photoshop to finish the pictures. I've uploaded another example of Bernie waking up in the morning. In the story he's wearing his pajamas, but I don't have a model, or the time to model and texture a different outfit for him. So I used the model I had to pose him and then drew over the image to have him in the correct outfit. 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robcat2075 370 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 So the project wasn't animation, it was still images! I didn't understand that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jason1025 7 Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Impressive Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wildsided 75 Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 Thanks everyone I thought I'd post a more extreme example of the process. One of the pictures was supposed to be of Bernie and his Grandpa inside their local Newsagents, Bernie is browsing comics and Grandpa was talking to Mr. John the owner. This meant that in order to produce the image in 3D I would need models of: Mr. John, Bernie (outdoor clothes), Grandpa (Outdoor Clothes) and everything inside the Newsagents. I didn't have any of that. So I roughed out a basic layout of the Newsagents interior using shapes and a free prop plant I found online, slapped on a few decals to give me an idea of what certain areas would look like and then figured out character positions using the models I did have (Including a basic squirrel head and male body). I also refined the process to only rough sketch the parts I absolutely needed to so there isn't a full image for that aspect. Also the text on the pop fridge, sweet packets and numbers on the clock are in 'Eulish' the language spoken by the inhabitants of Bernie's universe. I made a font for it so I can write things easier. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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