Purgatory: Environment
This is an environment I am working on for a movie I am shooting on green screen. The seen is lit by simple omni lights. I am thinking about replacing the floor with something more befitting a concrete building. Looking for input.
Any input is sincerely appreciated.
Any input is sincerely appreciated.
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Also, the mirrored pieces are pretty obvious, especially since they are positioned in the center of the shot and the viewer is looking directly at it.
I think the lighting could use a bit of work as well, as it's a little bland at the moment. Increasing the contrast of light and shadows would probably go a long way. Adding in some light shafts coming through the window would also make it a bit more interesting.
After fixing it up a bit, I think you'll have a nice little scene. Will you be adding any props?
I am probably going to do two maybe three versions of the archway to break up repeating patterns. The floor is pretty craptastic. I don't like wood for this environment, and I will probably go with dirt and broken tiles of some sort.
On a slightly related note, I am looking to create my normals in zbrush, but I haven't found a good way to project a texture onto a model without the texture being slightly off. Is there a good workflow tut for doing environment pieces in zbrush?
I have been doing my normals in the nvidia plug in, but I am not digging the results. Too noisy without a whole lot of depth to speak of.
Made changes to the lighting, saturated the colors, increased intensity, faked bounce a bit, etc. Going to fix the normals on the tiles next. Think they were angled weird which is causing some weird tiling.
Going to bed now.
and there is some weird issue going on with the tiles where the depth is really deep but the other places where the grout is in between tiles, it doesn't seem as deep or have any depth at all. how did you make the normals for the tiles?
@G3L: I am probably going to do a couple variations to the wall pieces tonight since I found some cool tuts on zbrush. The problem I found with the tiles is that the projection cage in Max was at an angle so they projected from the center further and further out until it started to look weird at the outer edges. Gonna go home and tweak it. Too bad I will have to redo the damn diffuse
Looking forward to seeing your progress!
Slap a grey material on everything and take it from there; if you can make it look good with geo only it will look even better when textured.
Keep it up man :thumbup:
What could help, is wall trim:
1st image, you can quite clearly see trim along the wall and floor boundary.
2nd image ^ the trim is broken and missing in large sections, but you can there was once trim, trim is pretty standard with any flooring, it's either wood, or tile or something else. While in this image you can see rounded edges at the floor, you can clearly see how and where the tiling ends, with wear on the tiles where the trim used to be.
EDIT, what i've said is pretty much what teaandcigarettes said, it's about the shape and form of everything.
@teaandcigarettes I will try blocking out my scenes first from mow on. I worked on the ceiling, and I won't try texturing it until I have the rest of the scene modeled.
@Pangahas I just changed the reflective material to be less mirror like.
Taking the crits I got here and getting to work
Add cracks to floor tiles.
Some sort of green thing right past the doorwall.Seems kind of bright compared to rest.
Light seems a little bright ....the rays on the door.
Here is an updated version with the ceiling that I have blocked in. Let me know what you think.
vaulted ceiling
Heres a shot with my biped in there so you can get a sense of scale.
Changed the ceiling, didn't like where the other one was going. Decided to go with something a little simpler. I am going to do a version that has the drywall broken apart with the support beams showing.
Decided to make this a jail. Here's the solitary confinement cell door (unfinished):
I'm printing this shot out and getting a tattoo of it on my ass:
Here is the best picture I could find, you can see it a little bit, even if not rusted they would always have at least a slight raised lip around them from where painting around them or placing the concrete
Hope that helps! Your scene is really coming along though, i think you ended up choosing a great floor