4.11.2011

Project: Edge progress 01

This project is called Project Edge and will be about this female bounty hunter who will go up against another criminal with a bounty on his head. I'm still studying the first draft but the short will be more on a fight scene between two characters, bounty hunter vs criminal. The setting theme will be more like the medieval era but it's fixed on a fictitious time frame. So far, here are the concepts for the female bounty hunter I'm currently considering:







Some weapons I'm currently looking at:









So far, this is what I have:







I just kinda started on her without using any reference image. I just eyed on the proportions and adjusted what I thought looked odd and this is what I came up with.

As for the script, I'm still deciding on whether to add dialogue or just keep it dialogue-less. I'm currently fixed on some parts of it, though, because I originally intend it to be a pure fight scene.

4.03.2011

Anna Final

Here's the final image and composition of Anna.

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I'm now in the process of creating a "Making Of..." which I will be posting on my other website.

3.23.2011

Project: Anna progress 07

It has been a while since my last post. Progress 06 had actually been sitting as a draft for weeks now and I've just published it. Here's another progress of her.

anna paint over
This is just a test render with hair paintover. I was having problems with the hair. Good thing Max Evil of Blenderartists forum suggested a great tutorial about doing realistic hair painting. The hair is painted in Gimp using a mouse. I have to say, it turned out pretty great but if you zoom in that's when you'll see the faults (I'm not telling where :p). Here's the link to the tutorial.


Here's a test render of her further tweaked face. She looks more mature now than before. I originally planned to stick with the reference image I had but decided to try experimenting on her current topology. Certain looks can't be achieved if your topology is already formed unless you're gonna delete or add vertices. But in this case, I already have my textures done so changing the topology would entitle me to re-work on the textures as well, which is a hassle. I just push and pulled vertices here and there to achieve this look without adding or deleting any vertices.

smile shape key
Here's a render with the "smile" shape key I've added.

render with background
I've played around with Blender's compositor and got this result. I've rigged her so if ever I change my mind about a pose I can easily do it. The lighting on the previous image is pretty much what I'm sticking with. I like it's simplicity, how it brings out the highlights on her left side. Although what I really wanna achieve there is a well-distributed specular highlight, but I couldn't with my previous tests. I'm currently looking for ways to achieve that.
Here's what I'm talking about:
Stahlberg's skin shader
If you look at the bright specular highlights on the left of the character's head you'll see that the pores aren't visible anymore due to high specularity but I can't seen to achieve that in Blender.

render with hair and pose
This, so far, is what I have now. Her topology looks odd from this angle. I might have to tweak it some more.

2.20.2011

Project: Anna progress 06

Another update:

Here's a close up render of her. I was testing the bump map.


Another close up render with hair.

...and a far render showing her cloth.
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