BTW: we will have a test screening in Amsterdam, Eye Film Institute, May 8, 10 AM. If you’re in the neighborhood, you’re welcome!

The gallery is located very close to the “Oude Kerk” in Amsterdam – the location where our film takes place – in the middle of the Red Light district! Title of the exhibit is “Warriors at the Edge of Time”. The exhibit opens friday 14 September at 1600h.

http://w139.nl/en/article/20980/warriors-at-the-edge-of-time/

edit: updated with some pics from the actual exhibition!

]]> http://mango.blender.org/production/gallery-updated-with-final-renders/feed/ 13 http://mango.blender.org/artwork/we-are-almost-done/ http://mango.blender.org/artwork/we-are-almost-done/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:01:05 +0000 andy http://mango.blender.org/?p=3627 …in the meantime – here! have a wallpaper:

Hi, i’ve been putting togheter more env-art videos during last weeks , here’s a round-up (2 already posted, 3 new : design, dirtmaps, mapping and stencils)

It’s again a mix of tutorial and diary : in part it’s explaining and telling how scripts and techniques work , in part just recording the process and how i organized my part.

Of course it’s not a full overview off the whole process/project: i stop at the stuff i actually dealt with,  other parts/assets share some techniques but are very different in others (like robot -with different use of dirtmaps , painting and box mapping – and church – for the different use of photo textures ),  and -about rendering- there’s the whole step of projection / matte painting between the materials i mention and the finished frames, then the aspect of integration with live footage and much more… there’s quite a few tutorials i’d have to see myself ! after the rest of the team is done with the project :)

INTRO, OVERVIEW and DESIGN :

TEXTURES; SHADERS and MATERIALS :

Hope you enjoy the videos , the batch-bake and object-pack scripts mentioned in the vids and  the 3-steps-blend node for dirtmaps , are available for test on pasteall  here (nodegroups and scripts in a single blendfile ) The file is a preview , there’s more work to do on the whole thing (nodegroups , scripts, general workflow ) so i look forward to comments here , then after Mango prob. a thread on BlenderArtist and then getting the scripts in trunk, make more polished  test scenes, etc..

If you want to join us this evening; just send me an email with your DVD order number, you then will be added to the guest list. A sponsor can bring 1 guest, but let me know please. :) We have 150 seats, so don’t wait too long.

ton at blender.org

Below the usual random selection of past week’s work:

-Ton-

Here’s images I copied the past day from our renderfarm UI. It’s all WIP and tests!

This is the 2nd in a series of videos about my environment art work on project Mango (wait! – actually: Tears of Steel ! )

It’s an overview of: dome models library, tileable and specific textures and the greeble kits.

For the actual modelling and texturing there’s lot more to say, specific videos will follow, on individual areas and topics.

This mainly is about the assets organization: naming, grouping and linking: how i split things into scenes, named objects and materials to sort them, grouped objects so that they could be used as detailing greeble or as set pieces to link the sets into the final shots.

Of course: the whole assets management  pipeline is much bigger than what you see here Plus, things are still evolving and being optimized during production and creation of actual shots, other team members like Francesco Siddi and Sebastian Koenig have a better technical/organization overview and know the pipeline way better than me.

Still  this will be useful for modellers and texture artist looking for infos on how to sort and manage their assets.

Hope you enjoy the video!  More next week!