Week 39 – Village textures

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Hey everybody!

Since I took upon myself to finish the village textures this week, we thought we’d show you the result. There are no lights, fog or other render effects for now… this is just a quick screen grab to show you where we are at.

Of course, the mill also had a beauty treat!

That’s it for this time. Thanks for coming by and see you next time!

Week 38 – Change of plans

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Hello everybody!

We kind of saw it coming, but we now realise that updating the blog every week takes too much time and we’d rather put that energy directly on the movie. On top of that, we don’t always have much to show since there are many things about the story we would like to keep secret.

So, for the good of the project, we decided to update the blog once every two weeks from now on.

Sorry for those that followed us every week, know that your support is very motivating and we hope to see more of your comments around. And for those that didn’t do it yet, don’t forget to join the Le Gouffre Facebook page to be advised of future updates!

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Week 37 – Trees

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Hello everyone!

This week, we would like to demonstrate the technique we used to create vegetation in our film. Since we want a painterly style which is hard to reach with standard modeled trees, we decided to apply a texture to one-dimensional planes instead.

Obviously, the trees won’t be able to react correctly to light this way, so we are working on multiple versions of the texture (each having a different lighting) that we will switch depending on the direction of the sun in the shot. As for the shadows, they will be cheated using a second version of each tree, invisible and rotated 90 degrees, so that we can get a shadow even when light comes from the side.

One of the great advantages of this technique is that we can add a lot of trees without making our scenes too big or unstable.

So, here’s the texture :

And the result in an unlighted scene :

That’s it for now. See you next week!

Week 36 – Shot 019_110

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Hello everyone!

For the animation lovers out there, here’s a new shot that Carl animated last week! Note that we will start naming shots with their actual production name from now on to make it simpler for us. So today, the shot we’re showing you is the eleventh of the nineteenth sequence.

Apart from that, here’s a little update on the set textures. I’m still working on low-rez camera-projected textures, but as soon as I’ll be satisfied with the overall colors, I’ll start transfering it back on the models containing UVs so that I can fix all the glitches resulting from the projection. Here’s an example of a new color pass I did on this part of the set.

That’s all we got for this week. See you next time!