"The Arrival - Treatment" - By: Bloor

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The Arrival - Treatment

Submitted By: Bloor



A competition where I can freely choose a topic?
With very decent price money. Using my favourite render engine?
At the forefront of visual technology?
SiGN ME UP, COACH!

This is the treatment.
pdf here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/336 ... _bloor.pdf
I´m actually already about 30% in.
Will post more WIPs soonish.

Cheers,
Gordon


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[glimpse]

Huge fan of Syd Mead (who isn't?) thus looking forward to see Your entry! =)

[Bloor]

Thanks Tom, here´s what I did so far:
- blocked in the scene

(interesting problem to solve is how to direct the eye of the viewer in 360 degree + updown, since no framing)
- there will be a lot of changes especially with the characters

- modeled the vehicles

- modeled the lounge

I also found out something interesting regarding the Vram-Usage.
It seems that the final image size eats quite a bit into the vram. In c4d with octane-plugin, an empty scene at this size already uses about 540mb of vram. My rule of thumb for available ram is: c4d-project-size *4 +540mb =octane-vram-usage. Just throwing that out there. Something I´ll have to keep an eye on, since I´m running 3gb cards.
Did some more modeling, currently struggling with the characters. Will post more soon.
Cheers!

[Bloor]

more assets:

[Bloor]

Spent most of last week posing, dressing and re-hairing characters.
May have went into a little more detail than necessary here and there...
Actors, please take your positions!

Modeled some more assets (plants, rocks) and started putting it all together.

More modelling tomorrow, after that: texturing and lighting.

[Bloor]

I just want to complete this little documentation. Here are some of the other steps I took:

modeled the plants, grass and rocks:

sculpted the Ghún-úr-hálul:

experimented a little bit with a wormhole-like effect, kind of similar to this one:
http://www.spacetimetravel.org/wurmloch ... hflug.html



Found that it´s actually possible to create quite an interesting effect straight out of octane by using a matte material to "mask out" the background and putting a bend image behind a lense.

bloor_wormhole_technique_0003.mp4

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Finally, rendered some stills and played around a little: