Sith fight II version

Okkey, better version of the Sith fight! Added some fog effect.

Sith lords fight

My first Chroma Key video Rendering! Still have to work on it, but... it's fine by now.

Village, 3D building

This building is giving me some troubles with texturing, God knows why. Anyway, I like it. Here I've got a sketch of the initial idea (starting from e-mendoza's picture) and how it's coming to life.

Schizzo dell'idea del villaggio, partendo dall'immagine che ho già postato di e-mendoza. Sulla destra, la versione 3D per com'è al momento, senza textures perché mi stanno facendo dare in numeri, non so perché, bho. Chiederò delucidazioni in merito.

Like earth and wind, like fire and water

Blending

This morning we learned how to put two different textures on a certain 3D surface, to create some sort of realistic "dirty" look. We used "blend" instead of "standard" and then mixed two standard materials and decide the effect of the mask. I used "gradient", so that I could have some dirt on my walls and doors. In some ways is similar to photoshop's way to create levels of textures. Also, we learned how to create some sort of 3D illusion light&shadows effect on the texture.

For the rendering I used two different "omni light", one for the inside of the building, one on the outside. Now I will need to add the windows on the upstair floors. After that I will create separately some furniture to put inside the house. I also added a glass transparent effect to the windows and some war posters on the side of the building.

And, this is the rendering so far.

 I am also modelling another part of the village and I intend to connect the two of them with a sort of bridge, like in the picture I am using to get inspiration: 

credit to: http://e-mendoza.deviantart.com/gallery/

I really like the idea of the archway and the clock tower. I am working on that. 

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Dunque, ho imparato a unire due texture in una per dare un'idea di sporcizia sui muri (o altri effetti eventuali, come ad esempio un terreno misto terra e erba) usando l'opzione "blend" per unire due texture e la maschera "gradient" come effetto di sovrapposizione. Di questa costruzione mi mancano soltanto le finestre su tre lati, mente uno lo lascio per il ponte che intendo costruire per unire la palazzetta all'altra costruzione che sto modellando, ispirandomi all'immagine qui sopra di e-mendoza, con l'arco e la torre dell'orologio. L'adoro. Per il rendering ho usato due luci "omni light" differenti, una per l'interno e una per l'esterno, più un effetto proprio della texture per dare l'idea di tridimensionalità. Ai vetri ho aggiunto dei blocchi per l'effetto vetro trasparente, poi ho sostituito alle finestre di un lato della casa dei poster di guerra. Iniziamo con i tocchi "Paradox 1915" invece che giocare solo a fare l'architetto fai da te. 

Sketches

I don't have much to say, today. This morning we started learning about CGI and we did some lightsaber fighting on blue screen. It was really funny. This evening I am inspired so I did some drawing. I sketched my character Aaron and did a cartoon version of myself and my steampunk version.

 

More 3D modelling

 

After one week in Italy I came back in England. I started again with the 3D modelling for the village we have to create in our assigment. I created the house looking for inspiration on the Internet. I saved a lot of pictures, but the most inspiring was an image from the game Bioshock Infinite (link to the original page), a first-person shooter game released for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3:

I created some through looking windows and a door at the ground floor, so that it could be possible too look inside the house. I used 3D Max for this modelling againg. Here's a screenshot of the program while I was creating the door.

 

I created a rettangular block and then I changed its vertex to create the glasses within the door. To do so I gave a wood texture to most of the door and then I extruded the selection to make it thinner and put a transparent glass-like texture.

 

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Ecco un piccolo aggiornamento sulla prima casa del villaggio che sto sviluppando. Non ho idea di come definire come si deve in italiano i passaggi creativi della casa in 3D Max, quindi mi limito al risultato finale e uno screenshot del lavoro sul programma. L'immagine al centro è del gioco Bioshock Infinity e l'ho usata come ispirazione del design del palazzo.