CGC Challenge #1 WIP: “Suzanne rocks!”

This one comes with a TIP!

So today, I’ve been working on the environment and I didn’t get very far. It took me forever to get the statues to be buried in the ground in stead of just penetrating it. I knew how to do it from the start, but to get it right takes a lot of experimenting. It’s not perfect yet, but it’s getting there. It will be covered in grass, so it won’t be that noticeable, but I want the foundation to be right, because otherwise everything might come tumbling down…

Now here’s the little tip:

if you have a large scene and want to use photo textures on the ground, you’ll need to scale down the texture and, even though the texture might be seamless, you will see the repetition.

This is what I do:

I use two (or more) similar looking ground textures and mix them using a procedural texture ( I like Musgrave for cases like this).

No tiling and no repetition…

These are by the way not the textures I am going to use, because they are too low quality, but I just use them for testing;)

Another day and another step closer.

I think, this is sort of what I’m going for.

Next, I’ll try and ‘make’ Kent (Trammel, not Clarke). and then it’s all going to be about making everything final.

There are still a lot of things that need love, but this is how I work, I like to see what things are going to look like, so as to keep being stimulated.

Probably not the most effective workflow, but that’s me;)

I’m wondering already if the statues shouldn’t be more squared, but that’s something that needs to be addressed after Kent is standing posed in the scene.

I’m not good at characters, so this is going to be the real challenge for me!

Let’s see how far I get tomorrow…

@cgcookiedough That’s a great idea, thank you. I didn’t see any cracks in the Easter Isle statues, probably due to the material they’re made of, but I think that might look really cool!

But first I will need to concentrate on the character modelling now, but I will definitely try that in the ‘polishing’ stage.

@williamatics I agree completely! I’m glad you confirmed that.