Week Four- Part B

Today I'm writing about my set, yet again. I have textured the entire scene and worked out my placement of items. First up was texturing the trees, this took a fairly long time. But I am pleased with the results.

 I was actually just playing around in Photoshop, trying to get the same feel as I have on the peer and rocks. Overall it turned out to be effective and really cute. My group agrees, I made a lighter and darker texture to have some variation in the scene.

Next up was the lily pads and I was using Google images as reference. I simplified them as realistic wouldn't look right. This was my first render of them, It was OK. Drazen (my team mate) mentioned the leaves should be darker. 

So that's what I did, and they looked heaps better. The flower was really fun to make, I had never modeled one before so I was excited (I'm a total Polygon nerd). And to texture them was rather easy. I took a few renders at different angles to get an overall feel of the comp.

The next thing I worked on was the grass, I got some feed back from a class mate that it was too fine. So I upped the ante. I made the base width a 4 and the tip width a 0.5, this looked great, I did try a tad bigger but it started to look really chunky and un-grass like.

After I was happy I made a sign for the scene. Every little lake/pond has a name. I wanted something that my team mates would love. And since all they talk about is League of Legends I made this.

I used the logo as reference, But changed the way it was shaded. I also tweaked the font so I don't get done in for copyright. I used the eraser tool to give it a wear and tear feel. The default lighting does not do it justice.

This is just a few renders in various angles. I brightened the water colour as well to make it more pretty. I would love to have it actually sparkle but that's just wishful thinking.

After I had played around with my angles it was time to see how my character fit into the scene. I was surprised at how closed I was in scale. I only had to scale the set up a tiny bit.

I also scaled the trees down, They are meant to be big but they were monstrous. Tammy fit in nicely, granted I used everyday Tammy and not Elf Tammy, but they are the same size.

All in all I completed what I set out to do. I have just the lantern to finish but other than that, This set is ready for animation next week.

Til next time....