Steampunk WIP

[SquirrelSa]

Hey folks - here is a work in progress of something that I have been working on in my own time . . . Essentially it is a collaboration with myself and Craig Bruyn (Australian Artist). It's titled SteamPunk, named by Craig. His original artwork looked awesome, so I asked if I could do a 3D Replica, and here we are. All work is done in SI 2013 and rendered with VRay, initial comp is done in PhotoShop. For final, I would like to Rig and Animate this character with a 'crane' type camera move? All background elements would be animated too. C&C's are welcome. Check out some other work in progresses I've been busy with on Behance.

Original Artwork


3D Model WIP


Lighting Test - VRay


Texture WIP - VRay


See more works here: http://www.behance.net/ryananimation

[Nizar]

Good Job

[ActionArt]

Very nice modeling. Looking forward to seeing more, keep it up ;)

There seems to be some pretty noticeable chroma separation in the renders. Specifically purple on the left and green on the right. Is that intentional?

[SquirrelSa]

Thanks for the coments - the chromatic split is not intentional, but now that you mentioned it . . . I can't stop trying to figure out why this is? Probably a blending mode on another layer. For final, this won't be. But thanks anyways.

[ActionArt]

I'm not a V-ray user so I'm not sure what that would be. Looks almost like chromatic aberration from a camera lens. Is there an effect active by mistake?

[SquirrelSa]

The chromatic aberration is a post effect - no worries, I know how to fix this. Yeh - VRay is awesome.

[ghonma]

How are you doing the DoF ? Cause it's looking very odd in some places, like eg the yellow pipe in the foreground and that one blurry chain on the top left. It's looking as if the defocus is happening within the borders of the objects only and not beyond, if that makes any sense.

Nice work otherwise...

[SquirrelSa]

The DOF is done in photoshop, apply lens blur filter and use a DOF render buffer as the channel matte. Yeh, I also noticed this and I honestly don't know the cause of this edge issue - it remains crisp? It might be a fault of lens blur or the fact that the DOF channel is not 16 bit. For final renders I hope to render a 16bit DOF pass and use Frischluft as the filter. I find I get better results with Frischluft. I'm open to suggestion though. Thank for the interest though.

[ActionArt]

I've noticed this several times when trying to use Lensblur in Photoshop on some of my projects. It leaves really bad aliased edges where one object is much closer than another (or the background) making it look like a cutout. Unless there is some trick I don't know about, Lensblur in Photoshop is crap. It doesn't matter if it's 16 bit or not. I'm not sure if there is a better one available but it's probably worth a look.

[Falam]

The DOF is done in photoshop, apply lens blur filter and use a DOF render buffer as the channel matte. Yeh, I also noticed this and I honestly don't know the cause of this edge issue - it remains crisp? It might be a fault of lens blur or the fact that the DOF channel is not 16 bit. For final renders I hope to render a 16bit DOF pass and use Frischluft as the filter. I find I get better results with Frischluft. I'm open to suggestion though. Thank for the interest though.

Interesting, since Ps Lens Blur is garbage, what other add-ons does anyone find useful for compositing in Ps ? I was going to ask the same question for the other compositors that can do video/animation but that is too broad

[Rork]

DofPro, Frischluft?

[milanvasek]

first i have to say i really like this project. looking forward to see updates

about the foreground DOF, i would recommend rendering those elements in separate layers and then using simple defocus filter (i guess animation will be comped in nuke/fusion or something like that)

[ActionArt]

DofPro, Frischluft?

Both look pretty good. I was hoping someone might know of a free one that works well...just wishful thinking.

Has anyone used the node in FX tree with any success? How about Toxic, anyone ventured there?

[Rork]

yes... and no

[ActionArt]

OK, then. Did your keyboard quit working or is that just enough typing for one day?

[anyheart]

nice ！i like it so much！