What if? Metropolis - Production Designer Profile

Production Designer Profile - Richard Vander Wende by Annie Roberts on Scribd

What if? Metropolis - Shot Tests

For some reason in the second render the tower wasn't catching any light, despite having the same blinn and the amount of subdivisions as all the other objects, even its base.

What if? Metropolis - Quick Color and Lighting Test

What if? Metropolis - Further Research and Model Tests

After my OGR I decided to look into a further aesthetic and some better architectural elements for my buildings.

Jordan suggested after reading my OGR feedback that I look into Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-British architect with organic shapes within her designs, and into Organic Architecture as a whole.

He also wanted the class as a whole to look into our "aesthetic" of our scene. How it could be made, and how people with similar Aesthetics Modeled their scenes.

Using both of these points to go on, I spent the day doing test sketches, not only to implement architectural elements, but to figure out how the low poly style would look.

Here I took my base model and experimented with different ways to get a low poly look.

1st shown: Original Model

2nd shown: Original but with Triads instead of Quads. Looks similar, not what I wanted at all.

3rd shown: A more low poly look. Close to what i want. Achieved by taking random verts on original model and moving them to be irregular, and then going to Mesh --> Triangulate and further moving verts.

4th shown: Same as third but smoothed.

I want the final "look" to be smooth but not completely smooth, and to still have the triangles showing a little. I'll move onto texture tests with the 3rd model soon.

Toolkit 1 - Digital Sets Lighting

Lighted scene with Basic Directional lights, Area Lights, Spotlights and Point lights.

Toolkit 1 - Parallax

Original Painting

What if? Metropolis - Test Model 1

I decided to do a very quick test model of one of my buildings to figure out how I would model it.

 View in Maya

Quick Test Render

What if? Metropolis - OGR 2

What if? Metropolis - Online Greenlight Review 2 by Annie Roberts on Scribd

Film Reviews

Toolkit

What if? Metropolis - Tower Orthographics

I decided to do an orthographic of my tower just in case i decide to model it fully instead of texturing a plane.

What if? Metropolis - Final concept art update

I decided to clean up my concept art scene to makes things a little more clear. Hopefully now this looks better.

Toolkit 1 - ARNOLD Lighting & Rendering Basics

Samping

Ray Depth

Point Light

Directional Light

Maya Area Light - With Spread

Maya Area Light - No spread

 Spotlight 1

Spotlight 2

Arnold Area Light

Personal - Animation Demo Reel 2017

What if? Metropolis - Building 2 Orthographics

I felt for this one the back view wasn't necessary since you won't see it in the view.

What if? Metropolis - Streetlamp Orthographics

What if? Metropolis - Building 1 Orthographics

Main Building

Transparent "Shell"

Both together (a little messy but this is just to show what the final building will effectively look like, it won't be used in maya as an actual orphographic)

Personal - Character Color Scheme Exploration

Original Scheme.

 pink gradient map

 grey gradient map

 red and grey gradient map

 inverted red and grey gradient map

 teal and gold gradient map

 bright  gradient map

final colors using the teal and gold gradient map with the added original red tones.

What if? Metropolis - Final Concept Painting and Breakdown

Final Painting

Simple breakdown

More detailed breakdown 

Toolkit 1 - Life Drawing 15.11.17

30 Mins

1-3 Mins

30 Mins

I know I haven't been good with uploading these lately, so I plan on uploading previous weeks at the weekend.

What if? Metropolis - Thumbnails 97 - 99 Streetlamp Designs

Just a few streetlamp designs I may add to my scene for more variety.

Toolkit 1 - Digital Sets Texture, Bump and Spec Maps

 Perspective View

Orthographic View

What if? Metropolis - Thumbnails 80 - 96

Most of these are from previous posts, but I felt I should lay them out onto neater pages for my blog.

A possible final composition. May work into it a little more by changing the camera angle for a slightly higher view and adding some street and building details. (And making it look like not all buildings are carbon copies of each other.)

Toolkit 1 - Digital Sets UV Layout

 Perspective View

Orthographic View

The window and lamp will be finished with materials and don't require a UV Layout.