TRON - PLAYER - MattQ86

[MattQ86]

http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2010/03/08/1268070530-daft-punk.jpg

[MattQ86]

Ok, after a few hours of work I'm mostly done with the geometry. Thomas is 1006 tris, Guy is 1020.

http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr213/Pwnan_Obrien/daftpunkuvd.jpg

[renderhjs]

they look shorter on the photo, the 3d models look a bit stretched in their height. The first characters trouser in the picture appears to form a slight cone down to the feet, yours appears to go straight. Here is what I mean:
http://renderhjs.net/bbs/polycount/lpc_tron_2010/suggestion_MattQ86.gif

The uv map most likely can be mirrored and using overlapping UV shells to save texture space.

[MattQ86]

Thanks for the paintover renderhjs. I made the necessary and subtle but important changes to the mesh and started on the texture. Here's what I've got so far.

http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr213/Pwnan_Obrien/dafttextured.jpg

[tristamus]

Haha cool...you know, you even matched the style of the original reference with that "more-swiggily-yet-still-tron-like" deal. Cool stuff man. Now just to give the illuminance!

[MattQ86]

So I know obviously we can't use normal maps but can we soften normals on the whole mesh? I don't mind either way but it makes a noticeable difference with how the specular map acts.

[Emil Mujanovic]

Yes, you are allowed to smooth the normals on the mesh. Having hard edges on your mesh so it looks all faceted would indeed give you undesireable results :P

[renderhjs]

I thought there would be no shading aka lit or difuse colors only which would make the shading useless anyway.

[Emil Mujanovic]

Reading over the rules hawken specified, there was no mention of 100% illuminated colour maps. Specular maps are permitted as well, so I would assume the soft/hard edges would be somewhat relevant to get them to display right.

[MattQ86]

http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr213/Pwnan_Obrien/daftpunkrigged.jpg

Rigged, now I just need to work on the presentation.

[AGuyCalledSpyke]

Workithardermakeitbetter...
Daft Punk in Tron is the best thing ever, and the models look great :D

[Don Karnage]

Looking awesome :D

[mifflefish]

Might I offer a small suggestion

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg116/mifflefish/daftpunkrigged.jpg

just take your glowing lines layer duplicate it and make it a lighter blue, put it at the top. Then take your original layer blur it, set it to screen and duplicate it a few times

other than that it's looking stylish

[MattQ86]

Fucking brilliant. I've been banging my head against the wall of trying to get something going for the Dominance Warmups but I can't possibly ignore something this quickly gratifying. Worked like a charm.

http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr213/Pwnan_Obrien/daftnewness.jpg

Thanks for the crits and comments everybody.

[MattQ86]

http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr213/Pwnan_Obrien/DaftTronFinal.jpg

I decided to get back to work on this before I miss the deadline. I'm thinking of making a DJ Hero-esque in-game shot. Stupidly enough I actually spent a minute or so wondering if/how I should go about labeling Daft Punk in this scene.

[hawken]

maybe a bit of Specularity to pull out the black forms?

[MattQ86]

http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr213/Pwnan_Obrien/DaftTronFinaler.jpg

How's this? I bumped up the specular, made the background texture it's own ambient map and added another layer to the floor. Too subtle?

[hawken]

Not all that noticeable TBH

Maybe lighten the background?

[Arkhange]

Agreed with Hawken, BG is too dark right now, just bright it up a bit and we will read perfectly their both silhouettes ;)

[MattQ86]

http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr213/Pwnan_Obrien/DaftTronnewsky.jpg

http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr213/Pwnan_Obrien/DaftTronInGame.jpg

[hawken]

really hard to make out the figure. suggest either adding lots of specularity to them ,or making your background something other than black.

black on black is hard to read.

[TortillaChips]

Just a little thing really, but I think you need to raise the daft punk up a bit. The middle of the loop on 'd' needs to be at the armpit level.

http://www.harderbloggerfaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/05-daft-punk.jpg

[kouotsu]

I'm digging this. I recommend experimenting with painting in some detail on the clothing (seams etc.) following the color of the glow. Take a look at the original photo, you can see their belts and stuff. Should really help bring them out from the dark background as well.

[MattQ86]

http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/rr213/Pwnan_Obrien/subtleupdate.jpg

Edit: Welp, nevermind. I guess Maya's Hardware rendering can't do the things I was hoping.