Another Quick Update

I've been jumping back and forth between scenes to try to complete everything for my next reel. Just thought I'd do a quick update of this science-fiction one. I'm really glad that I chose to re-compose it. I feel that it frames the scene better.

Coolio~

So I finished this today, and really like how it turned out. I'm still playing with the color correct and what not, so this may or may not look like the final product. I was just really excited to get everything to come together in comp. Hope you like it as well!

EDIT: Decided to play with the color correction a bit more because it was bothering me. I think it looks better now. 

Grass!

As the title suggests, I spent today learning how to play with Maya Fur. I got really excited once things started to sprout and I knew how to play with the settings. I know its weird how these things excite me, but I find the technical side of these things really interesting. And then using that to help you create something in 3D space is still really cool to me.

Obviously I'm not showing all the various camera angles I went through before I settled on this one, but I really tried to keep all the composition lessons in mind when putting this together. Coming up with the right angle in 3D space is the most challenging for me. Even after drawing it out on papaer, positioning everything can be quite challenging to get it to look just right.

With that said this is the final composition that I settled on. Working on the lighitng and texturing is next.

Dino Update

A little closer to what I want the final product to look like. Made some changes after a few critiques, and feel that this is stronger than the previous post. I want to give it a stronger color palet, but trying to figure out how.

 

EDIT: So I decided to play around with it some more in Photoshop, trying different filters and gamma correcting it a bit. I'm getting tired, and I can't tell whats good anymore. I think it's time for bed. 



Rawr!

Not too much of a change. I was mainly trying to figure out how to make the t-Rex pop out more, so I was tinkering with the texture. I think I need to lower the bump even more though =S I really like the robot in the scene ^_^ Thoughts?

AAHHHH!!!

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!"
Was really excited to start this one, so I did a quick mock up just now ^_^

WIP3

Just thought this was a cool picture to update with. I have a few more ideas for other scenes, so I want to finish this one up soon and get to the other ones.

WIP2

 

Been kinda busy with some other stuff and haven't been able to work as much as I'd wanted to on this, but the work I did today, I feel, seems pretty solid. I especially like the new camera angle that I chose for this scene. Will probably have to make the ambient light brighter and adjust the light on the ladder. Other than that I think it's coming along pretty nicely.