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[SamHowell]

Sounds like a good technique Milan. The results speak for themselves.

You could create some vast cityscapes if you can get your hands on a powerfull machine and an Arnold renderfarm. Maybe your scatter tool could be used for all the people in the city too?

[shadow_ex_]

This is looking fantastic rock on!

[milanvasek]

This is looking fantastic rock on!

thanks

Sounds like a good technique Milan. The results speak for themselves.

You could create some vast cityscapes if you can get your hands on a powerfull machine and an Arnold renderfarm. Maybe your scatter tool could be used for all the people in the city too?

yeah, final rendering is not a problem i will scatter a lot of people there, thats the plan.
but i need to model them first btw, don't you have some models of victorian era englishmen and women? ;)

[SamHowell]

yeah, final rendering is not a problem i will scatter a lot of people there, thats the plan.
but i need to model them first btw, don't you have some models of victorian era englishmen and women? ;)

I'm afraid not but I'm always available to pose in a bowler hat and big moustache

Could you make custom instances of different body parts for the people? Something similar to your buildings but with a selction of heads, legs, arms etc?

[milanvasek]

I'm afraid not but I'm always available to pose in a bowler hat and big moustache

Could you make custom instances of different body parts for the people? Something similar to your buildings but with a selction of heads, legs, arms etc?

cool, at least i will have some reference for modeling

well, i was thinking about it and i probably will. not sure if its worth, because characters will be really tiny in the image, so maybe just a man/woman with/without hat + color variation would be enough
btw, shame that there is no proper woman model in xsi, that i could just dress up. don't want to spend much time actually modeling people... i wonder what is the limitation of demo of Species. that might be great start for characters...

[milanvasek]

a little OT. but i'm posting it here for two reasons. the first is that "lowpoly, bad topology" teapot and the second is, that i love this stage of the process (before glazing) when it looks like cg clay render


and now back to modeling houses for my skycity project

[milanvasek]

small update.
I did quite a lot of work that is not too visible. Main thing is that I started using standins and modeled low poly proxy objects using only boxes, so that when I instance them and display pointcloud as boxes, I get quite accurate representation of the models and something like 15fps while looking at the whole city. I'm really happy about that
Apart from that, I started working on some characters (one of them- a lady in a dress - is in the scene already), landing platforms etc. I'm also spending quite some time getting references and sketching so I can add some cool details later

so, here is the viewport:

and here is the latest render:

[milanvasek]

some WIP of models that will be used in the streets...


and a test of a rope compound done by my friend Luca, who didn't know anything about ICE before he started making it it's really cool now, you just select 2 nulls, it makes a rope between them and you can adjust elasticity of the rope (how much will it bend)

[maze]

Just saw this... Really cool Milan! You definitely have an awesome scene mood going on there..

I like the light bloom overexposed, it does give a dreamy feeling to the city... also helps the fact that the houses are floating in the air.. !

Might be cool to also have some floating vegetation and maybe mixing it with the houses.. maybe even some tall but really thin cliffs holding some of the floating houses..

Did you actually draft something before or just went straight to 3D?

http://www.jessevandijk.net/g_10_10.html
here is a concept I saw sometime ago I like the mood and how the houses are in part hold by the trees.. might give some more ideas..

nice work so far!

[milanvasek]

thanks for suggestions... i was thinking about the cliffs and you are right. it would be cool. so i will try to add them
for me, this 3d scene in its current state is more like a sketch. changing the city completely by moving hundreds of houses takes just few moments, so i can experiment. apart from that, i did only few rough sketches on paper...

here is some progress i did in last couple weekends

today, i tried combining 3 houses into one so i can make more complex structures. i will need some extra components for that but i think it will work well:


here are huge pipes that will be running through the city:


some little sketches:


and a test of different camera view:

[milanvasek]

well, it seems like i will never ever finish those big projects at home so i tried something really simple this weekend

[Bullit]

Wow i haven't seen this thread. Great things here.

[SamHowell]

Really nice Milan. The execution is lovely. Definately your style.

When it comes to working in your spare time, small is usually better. I've got a load of big projects I have never had the time to finish.

[MauricioPC]

Just saw this whole thread. Your work is amazing and really inspiring. Keep up!

[milanvasek]

ok, here is probably final version:



and here is another one i did this weekend:



hey Sam you are right. i don't want to count all the time i wasted on projects at home that are never going to be finished...

[MauricioPC]

So beautifull and simples. It servers to show that you don't need all high poly millions of sh*t to make a beautifull image.

Congrats man. Love the mood, the lighting and the 'world'.