COLLAB2021 – WIP – blanchsb – Foundation

[Shawn Blanch]

Well I have two approaches for this week. The top by hand or the bottom procedural

If I do the top and I can keep the tiled effect then I can totally get that working in a great way.
If I do the bottom I am probably going to have to bake the effect onto the base mesh completely unwrapped in a slightly clever way. That should keep performance up just fine.
I could always just do this on the shader route and bypass the geometry altogether as a third option (I know the procedural workflow well enough to mimic it in the node editor I think?

[Shawn Blanch]

I have got a decent rock shape for the foundation that I am happy with based on the Modifer method shown above:

[Shawn Blanch]

The lower end of the foundation will hopefully cover inconsistencies in the ground plane and terrain differences.

[Kent Trammell]

Very impressive result @blanchsb! You went your own way I totally respect it. Hard to argue with the results after all 👍

I hope you intend to add similar sculpted accents to your tileable attempt:

Those look really nice. I think it would push your modifier-based solution over to a hand-made look and away from procedural.

[Shawn Blanch]

Homework Submission Week 3: @theluthier My PC crashes and I lost my sculpt work on the smaller foundation. Just got the file from yesterday recovered and the larger foundation sculpt is done. Still need to catch up on the smaller one maybe tomorrow.

I’ll try to get bakes done during catchup week 4:
No blend file submitted on this one only a picture. since my file is rather large. I’ll bake and submit that later this week I hope.

[Kent Trammell]

Stellar work @blanchsb! Wow, you really put the final touches on those rocks…and all starting from a voronoi displacement. Brilliant 👏👏

I haaate to hear that you lost work on the smaller one. If it helps, I had to look twice to notice..but yeah, I can relate to you wanting to finish it up. Ugh, doing work twice is the worst.

But rest assured, this looks soooo good.

[Ingmar Franz]

Excellent 😀👍, @blanchsb !

[Shawn Blanch]

Here’s the test render. Now I need to get these into the master file

[Shawn Blanch]

Initial Normal, Cavity, AO bakes & uploads to “The Google Drive” are done. I am officially on the Master copy now. Yay!

[Shawn Blanch]

Week 4 Homework Submission @theluthier. No review necessary.

I did quite a bit of texture painting in Substance Painter (been itching to finally use this application since I bought it last March. It was a fun learning curve. I’m getting the hang of it. I definitely benefitted from my training using Affinity Photo and Designer products and understanding the layers systems and masks. That is the strength of that program for sure.

There is a healthy amount of gloss/wetness and moss near the water and especially near the water wheel.
Getting the color to match the stairs and not clash with the masonry accents was an exercise in patience yesterday and today. All in all I think I got a decent stylized look mixed with a real-life feel and hopefully it does the artwork justice.

I used 1 single 4K texture size and fit both foundations on in order to cut down on the number of texture maps.

[Kent Trammell]

Amazing work this month @blanchsb. In addition to being a rockstar baron you’ve also managed to learn new skills AND deliver a beautiful result. As always it’s a pleasure working with you sir 🤝

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