This is a test render of a character and the effect I am trying to achieve from After Effects for an animated short being worked on this semester.
Well the model is done in maya, just polygons and a bump-map. The wireframe is rather messy. I just wanted to get a rough out while it was still in my head. Anyway, it is inspired from the old PC Battlechess game, and this is my evil version of the castle monster that transforms and pulverizes its opponents.
The overall scene will be composed in After-effects to get the sepia-like tones and added blur effects.
I would appreciate any suggestions on my approach or ideas to do perhaps. Thanx
I like the look of it alot. The other posts were proably not used to thinking about compositing effects which are not talked about alot in these threads but I think it looks great. It just goes to prove that even with a quick nondiscript model you can still get some great images. On another note though I think that I would try and achieve the sepis look in the 3D program with lights - that way you can still have some subtile color in it - sepia is getting a little overworked. I would like to see more.
dont get me wrong man , its an interesting image , but , no matter how hard i squint my eyes, i still almost cant tell its even 3d, i like the colors tho , the bump may be a bit intense tho ... my 2 cents..
I dont mean to be rude, but i really cant tell what it is. The bump map is too strong, so much so, that it is drowning out any kind of surface detail that would help me discern important little clues such as surface direction and so forth. In other words the near uniformity of the texture is working to flatten the image, so I cant tell if perhaps this character were sticking out its arm or anything, the texture is just making it look an undifferentiated mass. Good luck to you. -Darth
Could this be yet another put on? I think I can see the form of some type of creature there.
Maybe a good category to add to the Highend3D forum roster would be a forum devoted to the posting of just plain awful 3D rendered creations whether they are intentional or not. I have a few choice pieces I could share with Y'all. A little comic relief could help as a diversion from the "serious" topics and platform wars.
Thanx everyone for the input I really appreciate it! Alot of you hit it on the dime as to what I was thinking too - can't tell what is from one pic and about the way the texture is wack. I was having problems getting a better response from my fellow classmates other then "wow" and "neat" - ugh!. This is experimental on my part on trying to get a different look and feel through After Effects.
well... I thought I check up today since I haven't had a chance to get back to the computer lab at school since it got posted up.
effone, nanoform, matthewoman, DarthBob, Johannes Fors I'll do a plain w/wire screen capture for you guys but most likely by next week (sorry for the delay - but i wish i could work on maya everyday and nite)
