Epoch Earth Progress Thread

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Hello everyone, I have created this thread to showcase my progress for an animation I have been working on for my final year University submission.

It is titled 'Epoch Earth' and will primarily be one-two minute trailer of a longer story I have written.

I hope to show some of my methods of working to inspire everyone and help them out with their own projects, and recieve some feedback on my work.

Here is a time lapse video of me sculpting a character for this project

View Video Here



View Video Here

Below you can see some concept work I have done already for the project.


View Video Here

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Hey everyone, Its been too long since my last post, but I have been crasy busy with work and University (only 5 weeks left!)

I thought I would show you a character I have been working on in the past few days for my Epoch Earth Project.
I have been looking at him too long so some comments from fresh eyes would be fantastic.

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Hello everyone, I have been working super hard on my Epoch Earth trailer and I would like to show you all what I have been up to.

Below you will find a link to the trailer and some frames. Unfortunately my University deadline was yesterday and even though I did submit the trailer there are still a few shots missing that I would really love to add, I think I will complete those over the next week or so and add them even though it won't count in my final grade.

I hope you enjoy the trailer and please don't hesitate to ask questions about it or give some feedback.

VIEW TRAILER HERE




VIEW TRAILER HERE

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[loki_22]

nice work on the trailer!

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loki_22 - Thanks very much! Im glad you liked it

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Hey everyone, I would like to share some progress shots from my project, hopefully they will be informative and inspire you guys in your own projects.




This guy is the main antagonist in my animation, he is human but has been heavily augmented and twisted into an elite killer.
Below I have posted a shot of my low poly model and Rig, The main Rig and controls were made by Animations Studios, It was really awesome and easy to set up, you can find the site here -
http://www.animationstudios.com.au/



Thanks for looking!

[soulty666]

cool video man. I m trying to learn 3d max. Its pretty hard so well done.

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soulty666 - Thanks very much! I used to use Max, but had to learn Maya for a studio, its always frustrating learning a new package but stick at it!

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Hello everybody, I thought it would be cool to post up some more 'Making of' information about my project and hopefully give you all some tips, The image above is a scene from my Epoch Earth trailer.

I spent quite a lot of time on this scene and in hindsight I probaly would have got away with far less detail on the models but it was fun and I learnt a lot!.

The town that is built along the side of the arc was created almost entirely in Zbrush, I arranged basic cubes to where I wanted the buildings to be and then proceeded to sculpt them, I had about 20 subtools that contained a few buildings each and I estimate around 10-20 million polys per subtool, this was really overkill on the detail but I was not sure until the end how close the camera would be, better safe than sorry!


Below I have included a link to a timelapse video of me sculpting the cliffs and the town, I hope you find it usefull.

Environmental Sculpting Video



Environmental Sculpting Video

I have also included my lighting for the scene, I'm using Autodesk Maya by the way. It was a really simple setup, just a big directional light to act as the sun, with a texture to create sun rays. and then two area lights to act as bounce.

[Eiad]

I see cool stuff here. Good job man

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Eiad - Thanks very much!

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Hey everyone here are some more development images of my project.

This is the initial concept art for the scene, its very rough but it helped me figure out the composition for the shot and forms of the ship.



Below is a screen grab from Zbrush of the finished models based off the concept above.



Here are some closeups of the ruined building.




And finally heres an image of the final scene, its only in the trailer for a few seconds but it was a good learning experience.

VIEW TRAILER HERE



VIEW TRAILER HERE

[Eiad]

OMG! How did you make this building. I'm a fan of this work. If you could show a break down of the steps, I'm sure everyone will appreciate your efforts.

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Thanks very much Eiad, I will put together some screenshots and text of how I made this building, it should be online tomorrow hopefully

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Hello everyone!, I'm super excited today because I found out that I am a finalist in the 'Computer Graphics Student Awards' yay!

VOTE EPOCH EARTH

You can vote for me and the other great entrys using the link above, have a great day everyone!