Thursday, February 26, 2015

Cliff Model



First stage of Christen's cliff.



Second stage with snow.


Reference photo.

Snow Shader Test

First snow shader test on the tree. This was done using only two solid colors (white and green).

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Fog Test


Fog Test

Fog Test Comp

The above links are a fog simulation, uncomped, and comped with the matte painting. The movement of the fog most likely needs to be slowed down for the final rendering. For now it is a good representation of color and movement.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Revised Matte Painting


Tree progress

Unfortunately, I had to restart the tree today because my Maya file got corrupted last night. I should be done with one complete tree by tonight and will be able to edit a few more version by tomorrow evening.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Matte Painting


Background matte painting. I tried to paint it without the appearance of fog, since we will be adding the fog with VFX later.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Cliff Model Progress



This is the current iteration of the cliff model. It started from a basemesh one subdivision lower than what currently is. It was then imported into zbrush and sculpted through six subdivision layers. A subdivision with a good amount of mesh detail was exported to maya, unwrapped, imported back into Zbrush where the highlevel detail was baked into a Normal map. The texture was then applied in maya.

Progressing further: The model needs more vertical lines in the form. Steps to take are find appropriate brush in Zbrush or make one from scratch. Then iterate, critique and move forward until it is satisfactory.

Download Link: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5XVy1Sc5J0sfm54V0s5SVp4cFMzbjMwcmo5VlVGc08wWnhkdURUSjdzVjRIZ1c0YnJjcHc&usp=sharing

Friday, February 13, 2015


Light layout. Still no luck finding much reference for the actual lighting set up that Disney had. I will begin testing out the set up in maya.

Fog lighting tutorial: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/Maya/files/mrfMS-Create-light-fog-using-mental-ray-for-Maya-sample-workflow-htm.html

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Project 2 Source Image


Here is the image that we chose for Project 2. It's from the cliff scene in Disney's Frozen.