THRONE ROOM The Borrowed Throne Robert Kempinski
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Hey everyone,
I'm not very active here, but this contest really got my juices flowing if you pardon the phrase. I've tried a couple of contests before but never got very far.
My idea is the throne room of a race of miniature humanoids who take stuff from the bigger world to make their stuff with. Think the 'Borrowers' but perhaps a little more refined. Most of the time when this kind of thing is shown, it's all tatty and worn stuff, but I want this to be the royal family and have some really nice things turned into their thrones and the room it's in. Fancy coins, jewellery, lace, gold etc.
I was thinking the room should be under the floorboards of some palace or castle, but I won't be making this area, just a thing to think about while planning.
Really excited for this one, hope to have some block outs soon. I don't draw very well, so I'll just start straight in 3D.
:poly121:
EDIT: I will be using the following software -
3ds Max
Substance Designer
Substance Painter
Marmoset Toolbag 2
And maybe -
Photoshop
Xnormal
I'm not very active here, but this contest really got my juices flowing if you pardon the phrase. I've tried a couple of contests before but never got very far.
My idea is the throne room of a race of miniature humanoids who take stuff from the bigger world to make their stuff with. Think the 'Borrowers' but perhaps a little more refined. Most of the time when this kind of thing is shown, it's all tatty and worn stuff, but I want this to be the royal family and have some really nice things turned into their thrones and the room it's in. Fancy coins, jewellery, lace, gold etc.
I was thinking the room should be under the floorboards of some palace or castle, but I won't be making this area, just a thing to think about while planning.
Really excited for this one, hope to have some block outs soon. I don't draw very well, so I'll just start straight in 3D.
:poly121:
EDIT: I will be using the following software -
3ds Max
Substance Designer
Substance Painter
Marmoset Toolbag 2
And maybe -
Photoshop
Xnormal
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I am going to try and think about the whole environment first, and I'm thinking that the setting behind the thrones should be a clock. A nice old fashioned mantel clock. I have looked at a few and picked out some that I think would be a nice fit for the environment, and some that have nice materials. I will probably have to block a few out and see which one might look the best with everything else.
I've been looking at some fancy chess boards, because I did want some nice tiled flooring and it made perfect sense to me. So now I've started a very simple block out to take this into account. I have the clock idea, which hasn't changed since before, and used that to centre the scene. The lead up to the thrones has the chess boards (or simple check patterns at the moment,) and either some chess pieces or toy soldiers etc. on each corner. I tried the whole outer rows and it was too busy.
There are a few things you can't see in the pic, but it'll probably be changed a lot to get a better final shot, so nothing much missed.
In the mean time, I've been thinking more about the chessboard idea and I think a part of the throne should be made from chess pieces. So I'm just working on that now.
Also I've been thinking about the actual seat part of the throne and I'd like it to be comfy, so the only thing I could think of that small is a pincushion. I've looked for some antique ones and am really liking the idea. Something like the picture below.
So here's a quick test. The clasp bit is a little flat, but I'm hoping that it will be ok when textured. I don't mind modelling something more complicated if I have to though
Also, I'm blown away with the amazing work people are doing for this comp, I wish everyone the best of luck
Firstly I should mention that I own the Substance indie pack, and I love the software to bits. I started off in Substance Designer to get a fabric and basic metal on to the purse.
It's looking extra flat now, but the next step will fix that. I took it into Substance Painter and imported the Designer maps. Then I made a new folder with the clasp area masked out and started painting on some normals. I don't have any in between shots, but this is what I ended up with
I then exported that normal back to Designer so I could bake world space normals, curvature etc. and back in Painter use them to get some depth and such and just generally worked the textures a bit to my liking.
It's really a lot better than I thought it was going to be, so I'm happy. It will probably be tweaked for when I get into properly setting up the environment, but at least my mind is a bit more at ease with how the process will go.
I based the pin cushion part on the ref I found and made it circular, which then lead me to having to make the purse smaller. I didn't want the big fan back for the queen, I thought it should be more modest (the king's showing off!,) so I just went with 3 coins on top which I think is a perfect balance between the 2 extremes.