Friday, 27 February 2009

Texturing continues right after these messages...


Now its time to texture rest of the stuff in the appartement, ive started cleaning up alot of the models, and splitting them into seperate objekts, to easelier create my own textures on different places on the objekts.
I LOVE UNWRAPPING!
No seriously, unwrapping takes a long time to do right. luckely most of our bigger objekts are relativly "simple" so i can use a regular "flatten mapping" in edit mode.

I will post more testrenders soon... Keep your eyes peeled on this blog :D

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

This week on Advertise This! Part 2

After a quick meeting with our teacher we took some time to find the style we where looking for, we also found a color pallet that we liked Kuler . I have unwrapped the appartement, and converted it into a photoshop file, with 3000x3000 resolution.
First thing i did was to magic wand the spaces i wanted to paint, and saved them as selection sets in PS.

After that was done i made some layers: Color, Detail, Bump. I will make more layers if i need some different effects. This procces made the painting much easier and quiker.

First this I did was to search the web for some PS brushes and found a great site named Brusheezy .
The first thing i did was to paint the color, I then applied some lighter and darker variations of the color on different parts.
Then I started on the details, we wanted to have some variations in the texture, not big variations that will distract you but enought to make it not look flat.

After that I made the bump for the panels, we wanted it to look slightly futuristic so used some "wire" brushes, and made the bump weak.

Then i started on the floor, but i needed to find a complimentary color to the walls, and found yet another great site Lixlpixel .
I did the usuall prosedure, and first colorized it, then added some variation in form diffrent shades of that color in carpet texture,and then made bump texture for it.

This week on Advertise This!


This week i have started to do some texturing while the others in my group work on characters, and rigg's.
On monday i made a lot of different styles, but since we had no clear plan it was hard to come up with one. I managed to forget to save alot of the test renders.
The one above this text is one of the styles i managed to save, other examples was "High-Tec", 5th Elemetish and so on.

Friday, 20 February 2009

Update from my part...

So, since my last update I havent done anything worthwhile to mention, we have finised our animatic, and I will post it here soon.
Hopefully things will pick up now in the comming weeks, I just been dead tired lately, and have had a hard time concentrating and getting inspired.

Monday, 9 February 2009

Some more renders...




Modeling has begun






So we have started some modeling :) WE have gotten quite far, and divided our work between us acordingly.
Here is some renders so far...

Monday, 26 January 2009

New Script... Again :D

So we whent thru the story again and made som big changes.
We also probably nailed the ending too.

JOHN DOE pushes open the front door to his apartment. A ton of commercial has been piled up in front of the door. He barely makes a gap so he can squeeze in. He tosses his wet uniform hat on a cloth rack and walks tiredly over to the kitchen area.

His baggy eyes glare over at the freezer. He takes a frozen pack of disgusting microwave food out of the freezer and places the pack in the microwave oven. A commercial for Happy Coke trails along the surface of the pack. After setting the timer he grabs a warm beer from the barely working refrigerator and heads over to his TV.

He turns on the TV just in time to catch the intro to his favorite TV show. Just after the intro is done a commercial break starts. He gets a bit annoyed over this, but at the same time the microwave says that his food is done. Of course, the oven have to spew out a commercial for Happy Coke, and how tasty it would be in combination with the food.

On his way to the kitchen area he spots a huge floating commercial screen outside his window. He angrily tosses a pillow at the window before he heads for the kitchen area.

He takes the tray out of the oven, forgetting that its really hot, and burns his hands in the process.

As he cools his hands under cold water from the sink he spots the commercial screen again, floating just in front of his window. He gets really pissed at this sign, floating there with it's stupid message for Happy Pain Killers. Angrily he closes the drapes in front of the window to avoid seeing that stupid sign again.

JD takes a towel and picks up the food before he walks back to the TV. Sadly, he only catches a glimpse of the show he intended to see before a new commercial break starts. When he then sees the commercial screen coming floating up outside of his window again he snaps.

He gets up, grabs the TV, and tosses it through the window at the commercial sign. The screen of the commercial sign breaks, but the sign remains floating. A small white light builds up at the top of the commercial sign. A sudden white flash blinds JD and paralyzes him.

A HUGE GUY walks into JD's apartment and ties a strap around JD's waste. He lifts JD up and drags him out of the apartment. Bumping his head in the wall. The huge guy walks out the door, and close it behind himself.

Fade to black

Int. Mental hospital

JD's eyes slowly opens, his vision is blurry. He is in some huge white room. He can barely see the shade of a head with a mask leaning over him before he doses off again.

Fade to black

INT. JOHN DOE'S APARTMENT

JD walks happily in, doing a pirouette and slams the radio button as he walks in the door. Everything around him looks great, and the music is playing louder that ever. He struts over to the kitchen area of his wonderful apartment and takes a tasty pack of fast food out of the freezer. He places the pack in the microwave oven, sets the timer. He does a few dance moves to the tune while he waits for the food to be done.

While JD is dancing in front of the microwave the billboard comes floating once again. As he dances he hear a snapshot-sound, which makes him turn fully around to face the black screen, which momentarily generate a picture of the pose he held when the noise was heard, with a newly generated slogan. "Try Happy Treatment, and feel the difference". He smiles and salutes the sign before he starts dancing again. As the camera slowly goes backwards, you see the apartment gradually fade into a worse state than ever, and music from the radio goes from loud music to thin, awful radio-sound with JD still dancing as if it was a rave-party. The camera still goes backwards, through the kitchen window until the whole house in the shot, where you just see the sign place itself on top of the house. A futuristic city filled with advertisements in the background.