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Hey, my name is Evaldas and i am international student from Lithuania. I am 6 term student at Gnomon. I am working on my assignment for digital set class.
idea:
i always been fascinated by ancient cities so i decided to reCreate one. So i spend several hours at bookstore and found one illustration that i like.
Reference:
i found a lot of reference about Greek temples, academys, other famous buildings but it was hard to find any about ordinary people houses. So i had to improvise abit. Also movie "troy" helped a bit.
Camera:
I have changed the camera angle, because I didnt want to reveal the whole city at the first frames. Check out the previz in here --->>>
Modeling:
I had hard time to populate the city, illustration wasnt detailed enough. So i had to improvise. To plan every yard and building wasn't that easy. Also had scale issues. had to scale down all the windows. If u see somewhere where its not working please let me know. its my first city so i learned a lot from mistakes i did.
Lighting:
I wanted to create soft, golden hour lighting. Also i will be doing a night scene. This is lighting i am going for: I am using mental ray physical sun and sky. With mia_exposure_photographic for more control.
Texturing:
i will try to get away with procedural texturing. Will see how it goes. I might need to do file texturing too...
Trees and bushes:
i am using Onyx plugin for trees in foreground, and cards for trees in the background. I am using maya 2009 new render proxy feature for referencing the trees. My scene is around 420k. But i wasn't saving too much. My trees in the foreground are around 10 to 20mb, in the background 5 to 10mb. Later i will massively populate the scene with trees. But for now its ok...
If you have any suggestions please free to comment. that would really help.
and sorry for my English
my demo reel: blackpixels.com
take care...
