So, I’ve been working hard on the Stina model the last few weeks.\u00a0Modelling, rigging, testing and shader writing.<\/p>\n
Although she’s CG, i really want her to have a\u00a0physical\u00a0and\u00a0textural\u00a0presence,\u00a0so i’ve been working to get the shaders used on her cloths\/boots\/skin to have a real sense of depth and physicality. This has been a real\u00a0challenge and pushed my creaking computer to breaking point.\u00a0Unlike\u00a0the good old real world, you have to work your arse off in CG to make things look translucent\/rough\/dirty… anything but\u00a0smooth\u00a0and\u00a0shiny\u00a0in fact! I’ve posted some eye tests where i’ve been trying to get the\u00a0translucent\u00a0jelly like\u00a0effect\u00a0of the white around the eye and the glowing gem like\u00a0highlight\u00a0you get cast across the iris. She will be doing a lot of eye acting, so the eyes need to really have it. \u00a0Similarly with the clothes i’ve been experimenting with velvet like shaders to get a\u00a0touchable,\u00a0physical sense\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0cloth.
\nI’ve also been trying to get the cloth to react well to\u00a0the\u00a0body. As with much\u00a0traditional\u00a0sculpture, i want to describe the body and it’s movements through the shape and\u00a0movement\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0cloth\u00a0. (tests below) it all seems to be\u00a0going\u00a0well but has pushed my computer to the point where it crashes pretty much constantly. (Trying to secure funding for\u00a0some\u00a0new computer stuff, but as i’m in the education sector.. during a\u00a0recession.. with a right wing\u00a0government\u00a0i’m not holding my breath)<\/p>\n
These are\u00a0admittedly\u00a0fairly\u00a0excessive\u00a0production\u00a0values i’m\u00a0attempting.. verging on WETA DIGITAL levels, but as i used to work there it seem\u00a0only\u00a0right and proper. Of course, they have hundreds of skilled staff and a massive super\u00a0cooled\u00a0render farm. I have my home PCp.c. i bought in Portsmouth 2 years ago, and a dim memory of a well paid over worked job.<\/p>\n
On the story front (easy to forget about story, once\u00a0you’ve been sucked into\u00a0the mind\u00a0frazzling\u00a0vortex of CGI) I’ve started storyboarding, which is a relief from the\u00a0colourless\u00a0tweaking of minute variables in digi-land. \u00a0Its\u00a0actually\u00a0a relief to see\u00a0the\u00a0story arc and characters\u00a0coming\u00a0to life and getting lots of the themes i’ve been mulling over \u00a0finally fleshed out.\u00a0Unfortunately\u00a0my drawing skills have become so god\u00a0awful\u00a0that only I’ll ever be able to make sense of the boards. To solve this, I’m planning on poaching a talented student to help me draw them (particularly\u00a0as\u00a0there’s\u00a0about half an hour of them),\u00a0as a director has, at\u00a0some\u00a0point, to start\u00a0delegating. Even if he is a demented\u00a0control\u00a0freak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, I’ve been working hard on the Stina model the last few weeks.\u00a0Modelling, rigging, testing and shader writing. Although she’s CG, i really want her to have a\u00a0physical\u00a0and\u00a0textural\u00a0presence,\u00a0so i’ve been working to get the shaders used on her cloths\/boots\/skin to have a real sense of depth and physicality. This has been a real\u00a0challenge and pushed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KdKv-J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}